Tag: Cousteau
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Alexandra Cousteau, the Ocean Ambassador (Podcast)
"We all live downstream from one another," says Alexandra Cousteau. In other words, what we do to the water, we do to ourselves. A third-generation Cousteau explorer, Alexandra is an ambassador of the sea. She's the host of Planet Green's Blue August,
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Dispatch From the Gulf Oil Spill: Breaking the Law to Save the Gulf
With the well capped and BP's promise of a "static kill" in the coming days, a sense of optimism, while tempered, seems to be
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Dispatch From the Gulf Oil Spill: When Apologies Are Not Enough (Video)
I got word last night on the way to Alabama that Larry King is doing a two-hour special telethon and that they want me to be
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Dispatch from the Gulf Oil Spill: The Slippery Fate of Bird Island
My sister Alexandra's flight was delayed last night so she didn't get in until after midnight. We were all sorry she couldn't join us for dinner and a toast to my grandfather for what would have been his 100 birthday.
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Dispatch from the Gulf Oil Spill: Navigating the Media Whirlpool
There is definitely a trend emerging here: Early mornings seem to be the name of the game. This felt especially brutal since I didn't arrive in New Orleans until about 1AM and didn't get to the hotel until about
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Dispatch from the Gulf Oil Spill: Why We Are All Responsible for the Cleanup
We made it into Tampa late last night and took the one hour drive to the beach near St. Petersburg. It was going to be another long day and we were prepared to get up early and get to the beach for the cleanup. I
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Dispatch from the Gulf Oil Spill: Damage Getting Worse Before It Gets Better
The day started early as we left New Orleans in the hot muggy morning light. The drive to Grand Isle takes about two hours, plenty of time to contemplate what I was about to see. It had been a week since I was last
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Philippe Cousteau at the Green Apple Festival [Video]
Philippe Cousteau, who continues the oceanographic work of his legendary grandfather Jacques Cousteau, was on hand during Sunday's Green Apple Festival celebration in Washington, DC. We spoke to him briefly about the meaning of Earth Day this year, his
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Warped Eco Tour Needs Some Green Love
Yesterday we reported on the work Reverb is doing to green concerts across the US. Today we report on the Warped Eco Initiative, now in its fourth year, and up for a huge grant ($10,000) for its work to green concerts across 46
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Mammoth Environmental Festival
The Outdoors in Mammoth Environmental Festival takes place next week, August 5 & 6, 2008, in Mammoth, California. This year's theme, Summit to the Sea, highlights the connection between the mountains and the ocean, and everything in-between. The
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Jean-Michel Cousteau: Sharks Need Our Help
Hollywood has been very successful at making them scary, but in reality, sharks have a lot more reasons to be afraid of us than we have to be afraid of them. Between 100 and 200 million sharks are killed each year, mostly for their dorsal fins (to make
