July 24, 2008: Josh Donlan gives a talk on biodiversity offsets to The Alcoa Foundation and the Alcao Intalco Aluminum Plant in Bellingham, Washington.
July 22, 2008: Jennifer Jacquet gives the talk "A Way Forward in a Sea of Market Based Initiatives to Save Wild Fish" at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, CA.
July 19, 2008: Randy Olson's film Sizzle premieres on the West Coast at Outfest in Hollywood, CA.
July 9, 2008: Jennifer Jacquet gives the talk "Flawed Data, Reef Fisheries, And Food Security: A Close Inspection
Of Marine Fisheries Catches in Mozambique, Tanzania, Fiji, And
The Solomon Islands" at the 11th International Coral Reef Symposium in Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
Today, my review of Taras Grescoe's recently published book Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood is up at The Tyee.
When Taras Grescoe declares he will try anything on his voyage around the world in search of ethical seafood, he means it. He eats poisonous pufferfish, morally questionable shark fin soup, and potentially dangerous oysters during months without r's. He even samples fishmeal (yuck). After 18 months of eating his way up and down the marine food chain, Grescoe exits a bottom-feeder -- committed to consuming fish lower on the marine food web, with the exception of farmed shrimp (too toxic) and wild abalone (too rare).
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Hi Jennifer.
Great article at the Tyee.
The Toronto Star ran an article quoting Grescoe's book and his thoughts on Saturday May 3rd (see link). Hopefully being in the Saturday paper will help increase public awareness/attention to these issues!
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Hi Jennifer. Great article at the Tyee. The Toronto Star ran an article quoting Grescoe's book and his thoughts on Saturday May 3rd (see link). Hopefully being in the Saturday paper will help increase public awareness/attention to these issues!
http://www.thestar.com/News/Ideas/article/420948
Posted by: Megan | May 20, 2008 5:58 AM