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  Not explicitly environmental, but...

  As Oceana CEO Andrew Sharpless wrote on Gristmill a few weeks ago (before Penny Pritzker withdrew herself from consideration of the Commerce post), Secretary of Commerce is indeed an important position for the environment - specifically the oceans.

  Sixty percent of Commerce's budget and one-third of its staff goes toward running NOAA, which oversees all fisheries. Overfishing and the establishment of the United States' first offshore fish farming facilities will continue to be major issues in the coming years.

  Whoever ends up in this job will find themselves learning a lot about fish.

  Oceana: Protecting the world's oceans.

  On Obama expected to tap Richardson to head Commerce posted 11 months, 2 weeks ago 1 Response

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  and....

  As it takes up to 10 pounds of wild fish to create one pound of farmed salmon, imagine how much wild fish it'll take to fatten the much larger, more robust bluefin tunas.

  Oceana: Protecting the world's oceans.

  On Farming bluefins not an answer to overfishing posted 11 months, 3 weeks ago 9 Responses

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  ranching = even worse overfishing

  Not to mention pollution from fish waste destroying ocean floor habitats, cramped conditions leading to disease, escaped fish that compete and interbreed with wild fish, rampant antibiotic use leading to increased bacteria resistance ... the list goes on.

  I haven't yet read Ellis' book, but I'll be very disappointed if he really believes that ranching is a viable answer in any way. That is a crucial misunderstanding of the issue on his part.

  Oceana: Protecting the world's oceans.

  On Farming bluefins not an answer to overfishing posted 11 months, 3 weeks ago 9 Responses

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  It would matter ...

  ... if you lived near a state line and was in sync with the neighboring state only half of the year, which was the situation in Indiana. Many people worked across state lines and yeah, it was confusing.

  I'm a native Hoosier and grew up in Indianapolis, located in the center of the state, and so my biggest concern regarding DST was whether the Simpsons was on at 5:30 or 6:30. Now, looking back, it seems like - pun alert - a simpler time. I wish DST didn't exist anywhere. It just seems so useless, and these studies have only proved it.

  Oceana: Protecting the world's oceans.

  On Daylight saving wastes energy posted 1 year ago 5 Responses

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  Misleading photo

  Very good, thorough article, but the photo on top of a happy "free range chicken" is misleading. As anyone who has read Michael Pollan's "The Omnivore's Dilemma" can tell you, "free range" chickens rarely see natural daylight. They're typically kept in a dirt indoor space with one small door to a tiny outdoor yard that they're too stupid (sorry chickens) to go through. This is expressed in the article, which notes that the Prop 2 chickens would get to "turn around." It'll be a long time before industrial farm chickens get to roam on healthy grass fields as a matter of course.

  Promoting the idea that a free range chicken is happy and natural will, I fear, lead to complacent consumers.On California's Prop. 2 spurs big-bucks battle over farm-animal treatment posted 1 year ago 9 Responses