🌊The sea is emotion incarnate
for every second breath, thank the ocean.
Happy World Oceans Day 🌊
“The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can't.”—Christopher Paolini
We are water. We are salt. We are oceans.
Today we invite you to take a deep breath and give thanks to our wonderful oceans for that very oxygen.
This Week in Climate News:
💨 Energy disruption and rising prices create a “gold rush for gas”
🇧🇷 The CIA found as reason behind Bolsonaro’s election win, and now Brazil’s voting system is being “supervised” by Israel…
🇪🇺 EU MEPs reject key EU climate proposal after aims watered down
📈 Cool Trends:
🤿 4 eco-friendly Wetsuit Brands
Enjoy the oceans, but do it sustainably. Here four brands we admire for their commitment to innovation and constantly improving the way we interact with our wonderful marine world.
This Biarritz based wetsuit brand makes neoprene from oyster waste. Yes you read that right.
Their entire Bioprene is made with only natural materials: rubber, oysters, sugar cane and seeds.
Female run and female focused. This brand’s wetsuits are made with a combination of 1,3 mm bio and limestone based rubber foam (Eco-sponge).
100% bio-based neoprene.
Limestone-based neoprene
Water-based glue and eco carbon black pyrolyzed from scrap rubber tires.
Yamamoto Japanese ecoprene: limestone-based neoprene
Upcycled lining
🌎The Climate Tipping Points Explained
“We are in a state of planetary emergency. The stability and resilience of our planet is in peril.”—scientists of research paper ‘Climate tipping points — too risky to bet against’
Everyone talks about tipping points. Well a group of scientists compiled a list of the most pressing planetary tipping points so here they are:
Sea:
Atlantic Ocean Circulation
Coral reefs
Ice
Greenland
Antarctica
Land
Permafrost
Boreal forest
Amazon rainforest
Another group of scientists compiled “social tipping points.” Trends that could revert quickly the downward spiral the world is headed towards. Some include: protesting, fossil-fuel divesting, cheaper renewable, vegetarianism, green party politics.
It’s time to partake in social tipping points and play your part in off-setting this inbalance.
💩 WTF? news
🌏 The Culture Club
📚What we’re reading:
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
🎧 What we’re listening to: eco-nnect TALKS to Charlie & Angus Buchanan-Smith about Farm to Table
👁 Profile of the week: @alexsharks_
🤯 Fun fact we learnt this week: Scientists estimate that 50-80% of the oxygen production on Earth comes from the ocean.