World Ocean Radio
World Ocean Radio is a weekly series of five-minute audio essays on a wide range of ocean topics. Available for syndicated use at no cost by college and community radio stations worldwide.
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 5 minutes
- Episodes
- 261
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Revealing the Seabed Floor
In 2019 a partnership was announced between The Nippon Foundation and the International Hydrographic Organization to undertake the GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project that aims to bring together all available …
00:05:13 |
Mon 01 Jun 2020
Shades of Blue
This week on World Ocean Radio: host Peter Neill offers reflections on the word "blue" and the profound stages of meaning beyond the color of the sea and sky to encompass depth, stability, wisdom, fa…
00:04:40 |
Tue 26 May 2020
Per Mortem Oleum: Death by Oil
This week on World Ocean Radio we assert that the age of oil is over: from the rise of renewable energy production worldwide to the reevaluation of oil based plastics and fertilizers, to the increase…
00:05:23 |
Tue 19 May 2020
Ocean Literacy Series Conclusion
This week concludes the nine-part ocean literacy series, a framework for formal and informal education to help us better understand the ocean's influence on us and our influence on the ocean. We are …
00:04:35 |
Thu 14 May 2020
Ocean Literacy: The Ocean is Largely Unexplored
"The ocean is largely unexplored." So states the seventh and final Ocean Literacy principle, a series of fundamental concepts to help us better understand the ocean's influence on us and our influenc…
00:04:52 |
Tue 05 May 2020
Ocean Literacy: The Ocean Supports a Great Diversity of Life and Ecosystems
"The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems." So states the fifth Ocean Literacy principle, a series of fundamental concepts to help us better understand the ocean's influence on us …
00:04:39 |
Mon 20 Apr 2020
The Ocean Makes Earth Habitable
"The ocean makes Earth habitable."So states the fourth Ocean Literacy principle, a series of fundamental concepts to help us better understand the ocean's influence on us and our influence on the oce…
00:04:20 |
Mon 13 Apr 2020
Ocean Literacy: Weather and Climate
"The ocean is a major influence on weather and climate."So states the third Ocean Literacy principle, a series of fundamental concepts to help us better understand the ocean's influence on us and our…
00:04:59 |
Wed 08 Apr 2020
All in the Same Boat
This week we bring you an abbreviated special edition of World Ocean Radio in response to the global Covid-19 pandemic. In this edition we'll reiterate the words of Jacques Cousteau, reminding us tha…
00:02:02 |
Mon 30 Mar 2020
A Viral Opportunity for Change
This week on World Ocean Radio we confront the crises caused by the worldwide Coronavirus outbreak. In this episode, host Peter Neill asks, "Is this not an astonishing opportunity for change? Does no…
00:05:50 |
Tue 24 Mar 2020
Ocean Literacy: The Ocean Shapes the Features of Earth
"The ocean and life in the ocean shape the features of Earth." So states the second principle of the ocean literacy curriculum, a series of fundamental concepts to help us better understand the ocean…
00:04:44 |
Mon 16 Mar 2020
Ocean Literacy: One Big Ocean
"The Earth Has One Big Ocean With Many Features." So states the first principle of the ocean literacy curriculum, a series of fundamental concepts to help us better understand the ocean's influence o…
00:04:21 |
Tue 10 Mar 2020
An Introduction to Ocean Literacy
This week's episode of World Ocean Radio kicks off a multi-part series on the key principles of Ocean Literacy. The next eight episodes will provide an anthology of reflections, examples and illustra…
00:04:14 |
Wed 04 Mar 2020
A Blue Energy Future
Alternative energy is needed more today than ever before. In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill asserts that the fossil fuel era is over, and it is time to look toward ocean energy, …
00:04:59 |
Mon 24 Feb 2020
Oceanic Feeling
In this episode of World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reflects on a landscape of special importance to him on the coast of Iceland, and the ways that the experience of visiting it for the first time …
00:05:52 |
Tue 18 Feb 2020
Carbon Offsets at a Scale That Matters
Carbon offset programs offer ways for retailers and consumers to help address the challenge of climate impacts and environmental consequences, and can provide an effective means of contributing to co…
00:04:59 |
Tue 11 Feb 2020
A Green Swan
Since the mid 2000s, economists have spoken of Black Swans, disruptive financial events that embody three special characteristics: they are rare, wide-ranging and extreme, and they are explicable onl…
00:05:52 |
Tue 04 Feb 2020
Trust the Children
The climate is in crisis, and the next generation is committed to and has been successful in raising awareness, demanding political action, seeking legal recourse for offenders, and developing invent…
00:05:31 |
Mon 27 Jan 2020
A Haiku for Ocean Innovation in Japan
This week on World Ocean Radio we highlight the innovative work of the Sasagawa Peace Foundation in Tokyo, Japan, an organization using philanthropy to stimulate practical and transformative chan…
00:05:48 |
Tue 21 Jan 2020
Moken: People of the Water
Moken is a Thai word meaning sea people, people of water, sea nomads or sea gypsies. The Moken are a group of Austronesian people of an archipelago claimed by both Myanmar and Thailand. Their way of …
00:05:32 |
Tue 14 Jan 2020
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