February 22, 2017
The recent election of President Donald Trump is disheartening for the environment for many reasons. During his campaign, he repeatedly spoke about supporting more oil and gas drilling on public lands, the oceans and the Arctic ...

February 3, 2017

There is untold beauty and inspiration on our ocean planet. We can all make a difference – by protecting and conserving all life on our water planet, for us now, and for generations to come ...

Quote for the week

"To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed."
— Theodore Roosevelt, 1907

January 24, 2017
Tilikum the orca, perhaps most infamous for his starring role in the shocking documentary Blackfish, passed away on January 6, 2017. Thus far, the official cause of death has not been released ...

January 18, 2017
Throughout my lifetime traveling across the world, I have seen humans in their quest for development and ‘progress’ tear down and destroy the very environment we depend upon. The problem? The environment belongs to no one alone ...

Quote for the week

"The care of the earth is our most ancient
 and most worthy and . . . most pleasing responsibility.
To cherish what remains of it, and to foster its renewal,
is our only legitimate hope."
— Wendell Berry

December 1, 2016
We believe every person counts when it comes to making a difference in protecting our water planet. Jean-Michel Cousteau and the Ocean Futures Society team have once again been deeply touched and inspired by the power and actions of one individual. This time it was nine-year old Alexandra ...

November 30, 2016
From selling lemonade and collecting funds to donate to OFS, to organizing beach clean up events with friends, Alexandra is one very motivated and inspiring young girl who gives her voice to all those animals who do not have voices, especially to the animals she loves the most, dolphins ...

Quote for the week

"It is our collective and individual responsibility to protect and nurture the global family, to support its weaker members and to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live."
— Dalai Lama

Orcas are not for aquariums. Orcas are not for food. Orcas are not for school lunch. Orcas are not for pet food. Orcas are not for pig food. Orcas are not oil for restaurants. Orcas are not for compost. Orcas are not for construction concrete. Orcas are for the wild ...