Marine Debris
TOF calls for National Academies to Explore Redesigning Plastics
As part of The Ocean Foundation’s Redesigning Plastics Initiative, on 15 July 2019, we requested a scoping meeting from the key boards of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and …
Our Ocean and the Future of Plastic
In July, I spent four days at The Klosters Forum, an intimate small-town setting in the Swiss Alps that fosters more innovative collaborations by bringing together disruptive and inspirational minds …
Plastics Are Defining Our Future Ocean
49 years ago today the movie, “The Graduate,” first appeared in USA movie theaters and thus enshrined that famous line of Mr. McGuire’s about future opportunities—It is just one word, …
Puny Plastic, Planetary Problem
Our 2016 Ocean Resolution #1: Let’s Stop Adding to the Problem The year 2015 brought some victories for the future of our relationship with the ocean. Now we look to 2016 …
Sorry, That’s NOT a Special Holiday Cocktail
By Mark J. Spalding, President Earlier in December 2014, I was fortunate to be able to attend two very special events in Annapolis, Maryland. The first was the awards dinner …
Part 3: After the storm – plastics in the ocean
By Mark J. Spalding, President, The Ocean Foundation and Caroline Coogan, Foundation Assistant, The Ocean Foundation At The Ocean Foundation, we have been thinking a lot about consequences. We are …
