Our Oceans Need Us

Posted on Jul 13, 2012 in Articles, Climate Change, Ocean Acidification, OMG News, Petitions, Plastic Awareness Information, Video

Since starting OMG, Olivia and Carter have been doing what they could to raise awareness to the issue of Ocean Acidification, Over Fishing and Plastic Pollution in our seas. Recently we came across this amazing video which helps explain how all life is connected to our oceans and how our very existents is dependent on what we do to our oceans.

We wish to give special thanks to Céline Cousteau and the folks at Reefs at Risk Revisited for this impressive video and for making it all easy to understand and follow:

We also wish to thank Lauretta Burke for submitting this great story Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Coral Reefs, In A Four-Minute Video

You can learn more about the issue of Ocean Acidification by visiting the following links:

Ocean Acidification: The Other Carbon Dioxide Problem as explained by NOAA
Ocean Acidification as defined by Wikipedia
Ocean Acidification: The Other CO2 Problem from the folks at Natural Resources Defense Council

You can learn more about the issue of Overfishing by visiting the following links:

What is Overfishing as detailed by the folks at Overfishing.org
Overfishing as outlined by Wikipedia
Overfishing – Plenty of Fish in the Sea? Not Always by the folks at National Geographic

And finally, you can learn more about the issue of Plastic Pollution throughout our website and also at the following links:

Plastic Pollution in our Oceans from the folks at Natural Resources Defense Council
Plastic… What is the Problem from our friends at the 5 Gyres Institute
Plastic Breaks Down in Ocean, After All — And Fast from the National Geographic Team

Here is a video showing yet another major reason there is so much plastic in our oceans and ending up in our food chain:

We hope the links and information proves helpful and that you too will be motivated to get involved. If you would like to learn more about our Plastic Pollution Curriculum for elementary schools, please give us a call or send us an email and we will gladly be in touch.

Here are a few petitions you may also want to consider supporting:

And finally, here is a great video which explains the issue of Over-Fishing:

Ending Overfishing from OCEAN2012 on Vimeo.

Carter and Olivia also just launched a petition where they are trying to get supporters to help us send a message to Chick-fil-A that we want them to stop using Styrofoam in their restaurants. If you are interested in signing the petition and helping us reach our goal of 10,000 signatures, please click on the link below:

STOP USING STYROFOAM

Thanks again for caring from all of us at OMG 😉