Our Ocean/Seas:

• Sylvia Earle  is a 90 something year old scientist fighting to save life in our oceans
• Sylvia Earle Ted Talk
• Mission Blue
• We need to pay attention to phytoplankton with Reagan Errera- Prochlorococcus / Ocean
• The Passionate Eye (CBC GEM)  Plastic Wars
• Oceana Video on plastic in the ocean
• Evidence that the Pacific Garbage Patch is rapidly accumulating plastic
• The Ocean Cleanup  Dutch inventor Boyan Slat founded the Ocean Cleanup at the age of 18 in his hometown of Delft, the Netherlands.  It is a non-profit foundation whose team consists of 90 engineers, researchers, scientists, and computational modelers working daily to rid the world’s oceans of plastic
• David Suzuki Foundation – Commit to no plastic!
• National Marine Sanctuary Foundation – What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
• Free the Ocean– working to free the ocean of plastic
• History of the Pacific Garbage Patch
• Scientists advice for people living in coastal areas, move…
• Video of the Pacific Garbage Patch
• Oceans are the biggest life support system on Earth
• The Guardian – Many articles on plastic here

Sea turtles

• Turtles born with deformities due to toxic chemicals in the great barrier reef
• The Green Turtle
• Chemicals found in the great barrier reef -contamination
• Scientist say more needs to be done to stop chemicals entering ocean
• Scientist say more needs to be done to stop chemicals entering ocean

Arctic

• There are diseases hidden in the ice and are waking up
• Poisons released by melting arctic ice
• 30,000-year-old giant virus ‘comes back to life’

Land and Forest

• The Narwhal – Indicative of a truly corrupt system:  government investigation reveals BC timber sales violating Old-Growth logging rules
• Dr. Suzanne Simard – British Columbia scientist working and educating to save our forests
• How Trees Talk to Each Other TED Talk
• Suzanne Simard at UBC
• Suzanne Simard research and publications
• Suzanne Simard pioneers work on tree communication
• Suzanne Simard ongoing research projects
• Mother Tree project – Website (Suzanne Simard)
• Restoring Forests: How can we protect the water we drink and the air we breath?
• Silviculture: From BC government website
• Growing forests for our children’s’ children
• Forestry / Silviculture Pdf