The Environment

The UN recognizes that our window of opportunity to save ocean ecosystems is closing.

Sustainability is not just a buzzword — it’s an imperative.

A tide of threats against the ocean is rising, but pioneering ocean scientist and advocate Dr. Sylvia Earle, co-chair of the Aspen High Seas Initiative, has a solution.

Aspen High Seas Initiative Executive Director Michael Conathan has been invited to provide testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation at a hearing on “Our Blue Economy: Successes and Opportunities.”

Regulators must take caution as companies push to mine the ocean floor.

The CEOs of Patagonia and Eileen Fisher talk about their shared value of social consciousness.

Max Gomera talks about improving the relationship between elephants and humans.

“Taking action to protect our ocean,” Earle says, “is still the best hope for maintaining the integrity of our human existence.”

Biomimicry could be the future of technology.