Center for the Blue Economy

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  1. A big black pipe with white letters "RUSSIA" marks the Nord Stream project

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    Want to fight Russian aggression in Ukraine and beyond? Decarbonize

    | by Jason Scorse; David Helvarg

    Center for the Blue Economy Director Jason Scorse and partner organization Blue Frontier’s Director David Helvarg wrote this timely and impacting piece in the San Francisco Chronicle.  “Rapidly transitioning the U.S. and global economies to renewable energy would not only weaken our foes, it will also save millions of lives while strengthening our national security and protecting our common future,” the authors write.

  5. The seven students who kicked off the Middlebury Climate Change Semester at Jack's Peak Park in Monterey, California

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    The Middlebury Climate Change Semester: Inaugural Program Begins

    | by Rachel Christopherson

    January 2022 marked the start of the first-ever Middlebury Climate Change Semester program, a unique and much-anticipated collaboration between Middlebury College in Vermont, and the Middlebury Institute of International Studies (MIIS) at Monterey.  Undergraduate students from Middlebury College have joined graduate students at MIIS to study place-based examples of climate change, environmental history, and environmental justice. 

  8. Journal of Ocean and Coastal Economics Header

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    The Evolution of Thinking on the Ocean Economy

    | by Rachel Christopherson

    The Journal of Ocean and Coastal Economics, Volume 8, Issue 2, features eleven papers drawn from the recent Fifth International Symposium on the Oceans in National Income Accounts.  The papers highlight an evolution in ocean economic thinking:  from defining and measuring the blue economy as statistics related to GDP,  to an information system that provides decision makers with the facts they need around marine ecosystem service flows and changes. 

  9. The Palmico Sound of North Carolina, blue waters curve elegantly around green marsh grashes, as a golden pink sun rises? sets? in a wispy cloud filled sky

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    CBE Waves Newsletter December 2021

    | by Rachel Christopherson

    Stories include:  New reports from the Center for the Blue Economy on the Economic Value of America’s Estuaries and Recreation on the California Coast; Contributions to the Economist Group’s World Ocean Initiative, Wilson Center’s Transatlantic Blue Economy Initiative, COP26, WWF articles, NOAA publication Visualizing the Three-Dimensional Footprint of Ocean Uses, and Virtual Reality DIVE-An Inspiring Journey through California’s Marine Protected Areas; CBE Celebrates its Ten Year Anniversary.