• 01 Jun 2023
• News

Action Plan: Net Proceeds

clean up a beach, and no one is going to buy that plastic, the beach will just get dirty again.” Later, Goodwin would learn how bad the problem is, with 11 million tons of plastic garbage entering the ocean each year. Over 80 percent of... View Details

Keywords: April White; recycling; corporate social responsibility; waste management; water; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services

• 24 Sep 2014
• Op-Ed

Take a Trim Tab Approach to Climate Change

The "bully pulpit"—a term coined by Theodore Roosevelt back when the word "bully" meant terrific—originally referred to the US presidency and its tremendous potential for speaking out and influencing public opinion. Nowadays, the term describes any position with the... View Details

Keywords: by Amy C. Edmondson; Energy; Utilities

• Portrait Project

Brian Shaw

Live outdoors. Drink freshly squeezed orange juice. Let food cook slowly on the grill. Tell the ocean what worries me. Listen to the sunset. Sleep out underneath the stars. Feel small. Go swimming in rivers. Let my insecurities flow. Run... View Details

• Portrait Project

Patrick Chung

I am the repository of my parents' hopes and dreams. Our unbroken history stretches far back across borders and oceans I do not know and now finds itself newly planted here. How will I add another link to the chain? I will dig my hands... View Details

Herman Brown

Brown built one of the world’s largest construction companies - Brown and Root, Incorporated. Brown also developed subsidiaries that included hotels, oil and gas producing properties, paper mills, mines, real estate concerns, office buildings, and shipbuilding... View Details

Keywords: Construction & Real Estate

• Portrait Project

Suzanne Floy Gauron

However harried the moment, I will remember the arc of that cherry tree against the sky, admire the ocean from a window, and delight in the prospect of summers to come. View Details

• Portrait Project

Andrew Huynh

forests and snow-capped mountain peaks these past two years certainly reinvigorated my love for our parks. It also served as a stark reminder of their fragility. From warming oceans killing coral reefs to the presidential proclamation... View Details

• Portrait Project

Janice Lin

nothing but a career and a bank account. Instead, I will see all the oceans and travel to each continent. I'll sit with penguins in Antarctica and play with pandas in China. I'll ride a motorcycle through the winding mountain roads —... View Details

• Portrait Project

Jordan Bazinsky

I will do my part to help the most vulnerable have at least a "crib of one's own." Standing on the front porch of my small wooden home, built to withstand the ocean breeze, one hand will be on my crib. The other will be... View Details

• 01 Mar 2013
• News

Oil Rigs and Ripe Fruit

With 40,000 employees, Singapore-based Keppel Corporation is one of the world's largest manufacturers of offshore oil rigs, both floating deep-water semisubmersibles that anchor to the seabed and "jack-up" rigs that stand on legs on the View Details

Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

• 25 Feb 2020
• News

Beyond the Plastisphere

2050 our oceans will contain more of it by weight than fish. Single-use petroleum-based plastics contaminate our water, pollute our land, and contribute to global warming. And given current rates of production and consumption—1 million... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing; Manufacturing

• 21 Feb 2017
• News

Wilson Claims Title of Fastest American Solo Sailor

Bulletin is considered “the Mt. Everest of the seas.” This year’s competition was his second successful solo ocean race. He soundly bested his time in the 2008-9 edition of the race of 121 days and 41 minutes. While battling storms, rough... View Details

Keywords: Vendee Globe

• Portrait Project

Monica Haugen

I still constantly look around and think, "I am so different from these people." Although I crossed no ocean to get here, it feels as though I crossed something even bigger - a social and economic divide. I have accessed an... View Details

• 01 Sep 2006
• News

Sorry, We’re All Out of Chilean Sea Bass

the ultimate answer is what some people call ocean zoning. Just as we have zones for people and buildings and other zones for nature, I think we need to do something similar in the sea to allow fish habitats that are not subject to the... View Details

Keywords: Lewis I. Rice; Fishing, Hunting and Trapping; Agriculture

• 06 Dec 2021
• News

New Wave

homes, while wave energy could power more than 200 million. And global capacity for ocean energy is even greater, with experts saying that marine sources could provide enough electricity to satisfy worldwide demand four times over. Yet... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen

• 04 Sep 2019
• News

Deep Dive

Victor Vescovo (MBA 1994) had been descending through the waters of the Pacific Ocean for more than two hours. The headlights on the exterior of his state-of-the-art submersible illuminated only a tiny slice of this strange world. An... View Details

Keywords: April White; photo by Jeff Wilson; Scientific Research and Development Services