It was a beautiful evening. The sun had begun to set, casting a golden light across a local park on the Florida Panhandle. I was showing my visiting parents around one of my favorite ecoContinue reading
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A Fight for the Seas
I love these waters that are beginning to feel like home. They are untamable and unforgiving and beautiful and wild.
And I know that the sea carries out punishments to those who do not respect the signs–to those who fail to read her. There is no tolerance of those who fail to take a long careful look at the horizon, or for a species that satiates life giving waters with chemicals and trash and unconscious behavior.
Anne Martin
alumni, climate, conservation, environmental economics, environmental health, environmental policy, ESC
alumni, climate, conservation, environmental economics, environmental health, environmental policy, ESC
Immediate Action Needed: Global Environmental Challenges in Costa Rica
Commercial fishing is not the only “big industry” ripping apart Costa Rica socially, economically, and environmentally. Industrial-sized monoculture farming, imposed by several politically powerful global companies, is swiftly destroying the land and wrecking havoc on the health of the local people as well.
Anne Martin
alumni, climate, conservation, energy, environmental health, environmental policy, ESC, sustainability, travel
alumni, climate, conservation, energy, environmental health, environmental policy, ESC, sustainability, travel
Protect Our Forests
Creating an Artificial Ice Storm
On a string of freezing nights in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, Dr. Lindsey Rustad and her team from the Hubbard Brook Experimental Research Forest aimed fire hoses at the canopy of a northernContinue reading
Chemical Safety: A Wake Up Call
No one should have to die for common sense policy to be put into place. But they already have. Now it is up to the rest of us to take a stand.
El amanecer
It is such a beautiful world….and it is a beautiful thing, this thing we call Life.
Goodbye, Dear Friend
We met in 2009. My life was in limbo but exciting things were happening. I had just completed a 6-month internship at a weekly newspaper in Santa Barbara and returned from the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico assisting a now quite successful underwater photographer, Thomas Peschack, through an expedition with the International League of Conservation Photographers.