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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.

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Update frequency
every 8 days
Average duration
5 minutes
Episodes
261
Years Active
2020 - 2025
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World Ocean Culture

World Ocean Culture

This week on the RESCUE series we're continuing our discussion of the water cycle and the ways it defines our cultural identity from global to local. We are surrounded by evidence of our cultural oce…

00:05:12  |   Thu 31 Aug 2023
Rescue, part 30: Water and World Ocean Health

Rescue, part 30: Water and World Ocean Health

We are nearing the end of the RESCUE series. This week, in its 30th edition, we're talking about water: the well-spring of world ocean health and the essential natural system that sustains us all, th…

00:04:57  |   Wed 23 Aug 2023
RESCUE, part 29: Trans-Generational Urgency

RESCUE, part 29: Trans-Generational Urgency

We are nearing the end of the 33-part RESCUE series. This week we turn our attention to the young people around the world that are approaching outdated conventions with resilience and resolve. Thousa…

00:05:14  |   Wed 16 Aug 2023
RESCUE, part 28: A Transformational Tool for Ocean Literacy

RESCUE, part 28: A Transformational Tool for Ocean Literacy

This week we continue the multi-part RESCUE series with a highlight of the World Ocean Explorer virtual aquarium project of the W2O, an innovative tool by which to present responsible science, innova…

00:05:10  |   Wed 09 Aug 2023
RESCUE, part 27: How to Advance Ocean Literacy

RESCUE, part 27: How to Advance Ocean Literacy

This week on World Ocean Radio we continue the RESCUE series with recommendations to further protect the ocean--by building ocean literacy into every level of education and action around the world. 

A…

00:05:06  |   Wed 02 Aug 2023
RESCUE, part 26: The Missing Links--Education and Communication

RESCUE, part 26: The Missing Links--Education and Communication

This week we continue the multi-part RESCUE series with a shift from suggestions for change to analysis and observation of those things that are missing from the equation--namely ocean education and …

00:05:14  |   Wed 19 Jul 2023
A Night Sky

A Night Sky

This week on World Ocean Radio we are re-broadcasting an episode in which we look to the night sky, to ponder the wonder contained therein, and to explore the danger of polluting it forever in the na…

00:05:07  |   Thu 13 Jul 2023
RESCUE, part 25: How to Transform the Ocean Apparat

RESCUE, part 25: How to Transform the Ocean Apparat

This week we continue the multi-part RESCUE series with a proposed solution to advance successful connection and communication within and with those who fund and communicate ocean programs and projec…

00:05:10  |   Wed 05 Jul 2023
RESCUE, part 24: Ocean Finance Reform: Step by Step

RESCUE, part 24: Ocean Finance Reform: Step by Step

This week we continue the multi-part RESCUE series by listing some of the most critical changes and improvements required to create a new, sustainable ocean economy--in essence a checklist for step-b…

00:05:14  |   Wed 28 Jun 2023
RESCUE, part 23: Financial Instruments for a New Ocean Ethos

RESCUE, part 23: Financial Instruments for a New Ocean Ethos

This week on World Ocean Radio as part of the multi-part RESCUE series we revisit the concept of ecosystem services accounting and propose that, in order to create a culture of investment for our fut…

00:05:13  |   Wed 21 Jun 2023
RESCUE, part 22: What is Net Zero?

RESCUE, part 22: What is Net Zero?

The multi-part RESCUE series continues this week with a discussion of the reality of carbon offsets, corporate accounting, and the concept of net zero. In this episode we lay out three paths forward …

00:05:09  |   Wed 14 Jun 2023
Ecosystem Services Accounting: An Example

Ecosystem Services Accounting: An Example

This week the multi-part RESCUE series continues with a hypothetical tale of investment, manufacture and accounting, and the financial analyses of both sides of the balance sheet: the initial investm…

00:05:10  |   Wed 31 May 2023
RESCUE, part 20: How to Account for an Ocean Economy

RESCUE, part 20: How to Account for an Ocean Economy

This week the multi-part RESCUE series continues with a breakdown of a 2020 Report by the World Resource Institute High Level Panel for Sustainable Ocean Economy that offered some revised definitions…

00:05:17  |   Wed 24 May 2023
RESCUE, part 19: Valuing Ecosystem Services

RESCUE, part 19: Valuing Ecosystem Services

This week the multi-part RESCUE series continues with a call for a new valuation of ecosystem services and natural resources that reflects the true costs of goods, services and ecosystem functions in…

00:05:03  |   Wed 17 May 2023
RESCUE, part 18: Opportunity for Ocean Finance

RESCUE, part 18: Opportunity for Ocean Finance

This week the multi-part RESCUE series continues with a turn toward the topic of finance. This episode lays out a plan for future editions that focuses on examples that calculate the value of the oce…

00:05:02  |   Wed 10 May 2023
RESCUE, part 17: Technology and the Ocean Pharmacopeia

RESCUE, part 17: Technology and the Ocean Pharmacopeia

This week the multi-part RESCUE series continues with an examination of familiar products derived from the ocean that we use to support our ways of life, our well-being and our health: from vitamins …

00:05:04  |   Wed 03 May 2023
RESCUE, part 16: Technology and Ocean Farming

RESCUE, part 16: Technology and Ocean Farming

This week the multi-part RESCUE series continues with an advancement of the sub-theme of technology. We're talking about the pitfalls of modern agriculture, examples of sustainable fisheries, and the…

00:05:11  |   Wed 26 Apr 2023
RESCUE, part 15: Technology Food and Health

RESCUE, part 15: Technology Food and Health

This week we continue the multi-part RESCUE series with the topic of seafood consumption. While more than 3 billion people worldwide rely on wild-caught and farmed seafood as a significant source of …

00:05:05  |   Thu 20 Apr 2023
RESCUE, part 14: Technology and Climate Action

RESCUE, part 14: Technology and Climate Action

This week we continue the multi-part RESCUE series with an outline of the four technological focus areas of the recently announced Ocean Climate Action Plan, the organizing connection of which is tec…

00:05:19  |   Wed 12 Apr 2023
RESCUE, part 13: The Democratization of Technology

RESCUE, part 13: The Democratization of Technology

This week we continue the multi-part RESCUE series with defined programs and relationships that apply technologies toward public good, such as a universal grid system, battery generation and storage,…

00:05:26  |   Wed 05 Apr 2023
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