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Last night I attended an event at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) called OMSI After Dark: Oceans that looked at the world's oceans and some issues impacting them (shout out to OMSI as I have been to two events there now since I moved…

Just a quick reminder to folks that this Saturday, June 8, is World Oceans Day.  Originally proposed in 1992 by Canada's International Centre for Ocean Development, support from The Ocean Project, World Ocean Network and others in 2002 really st…

Just a quick post to kick off the unofficial start of summer, and beach season, although we know many of you have the luxury being able to head to the beach and have it be warm 6+ months of the year.  Here in Oregon where we are, we are blessed…

As we start to enter the peak sunscreen selling season here in the US, we thought it would be a worthwhile exercise to shed some light on this multi billion dollar global industry which generated $5.6B in sales of sun protection products in 2013, by…

As Earth Day 2019 is coming up on Monday, 4/22, just wanted to do a blog post in advance of the big day based on some observations.  After visiting Earth Day Network, one thing that stood out to me is that in the 18 rotating images on the page,…