South of Africa
A couple weeks ago we had several screenings at the Labia Theatre in Cape Town, South Africa. Thanks to the efforts from the Sustainable Seas Trust, Andreas Spath with his While You Were Sleeping team, and Tessa Hempson from the University of Cape Town it was a great success that even took them by surprise. […]
Stirring it up on the West Coast
In our last entry, we were touring the gold mining town of Nevada city in our new t-shirts, sporting the logo “make films, not war”. This was during the Wild and Scenic Film Festival in Nevada City, just east of Sacramento in the foothills of the Sierra Mountains. An established environmental film festival, it brings […]
Strange Demand
By Daniel de la Calle Hello Everybody, My name is Daniel de la Calle and I was the production photographer in “A Sea Change”. Barbara Ettinger and Sven Huseby recently asked me to continue collaborating by working on the website, so I hope to write some posts over these upcoming months. Today I was feeling […]
Summer Winds
By Daniel de la Calle Over twenty years ago I saw my first wind farm around the Gibraltar Strait. I was going with my parents and brothers to the town of Tarifa, on the Cádiz coast, “the windsurfing capital of the world” as they called it back then. Tarifa has a much higher suicide rate […]
Teaching Moments
By Ben Kalina It’s been two years now since we filmed A Sea Change along the northern California coast and the journey continues with screenings scheduled globally as we plan another celebration of World Ocean Day in early June. As if ocean acidification wasn’t enough and we needed another reason to wean ourselves quickly from […]
“That other carbon problem”
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) held a conference in February which tackled, among other things, “that other carbon problem: ocean acidification.” John Timmer of Ars Technica wrote up a full report.
An Early Report from the Royal Society
This 2005 summary report from the Royal Society is a call for immediate reductions in CO2 emissions.
Coral Reefs Vulnerable to Ocean Acidification
Coral reefs may be even more sensitive than previously thought to ocean acidification. See this recent news on a study conducted by USGS.
Day 2
Barbara and I are here in Copenhagen at COP-15 to continue our efforts to get oceans and ocean acidification onto the global climate agenda. We are part of the team from Scripps and the University of California. Towards that end, I was asked to give a talk yesterday on Ocean Acidification and its Human Impacts. […]
Day 3 – At the Bella Center
Today will be a full day at the Bella Center. Yesterday we met with a journalist from Barcelona who writes for La Vanguardia. He, like many, wanted to know why it has taken so long for ocean acidification to become a known issue. He asked us what the delegates would say if asked why it […]
In Copenhagen
We made it! Bleary eyed and a bit soggy from the constant drizzle, we in arrived in Copenhagen yesterday. Christmas and Climate Change are in evidence everywhere! I’ll email photographic evidence later today (see below), but meanwhile, my first favorite factoid from Denmark courtesy of the Danish National Museum: Did you know… Some 14,000 years […]
Interview on Martha Stewart
A big thanks to Martha Stewart for providing her support in helping us to get the word out on ocean acidification. Here’s a lovely photo of Martha with Barbara Ettinger and Sven Huseby, on the show: And below you can see the interview:
Niijii Films in Copenhagen
Barbara, Sven, Angela and Gwen have landed in Copenhagen. We have at least 4 screenings of A Sea Change planned during the COP-15 conference, and we plan to do everything we can to put the oceans on the agenda of discussion for our nations’ leaders. While there is little likelihood of a significant treaty being […]
NOAA defines ocean acidification
This is a detailed, clean explanation of what ocean acidification is. Straight from the horse’s mouth, so to speak, i.e., from the NOAA website. NOAA is the U.S. government agency specifically charged with studying ocean and climate, fyi. You pronounce the acronym just like that guy from the Bible: remember the ark? It stands for […]
On the Road Again
Sven, on the way to make some noise about ocean acidification in Copenhagen.
Registration Complete
It seems we were fortunate to get credentialed earlier, as today was another story. The quiet Bella Center of yesterday was swamped this afternoon with crowds, and a two hour wait to pick up badges. By 4:00pm registration for NGO’s was suspended, as was the issuing of press credentials. Sven and I stayed clear of […]
Settling into Copenhagen
This is a fantastic city. It is beautiful, friendly, easy to navigate and the food is fabulous. It’s interesting to see the COP15 attendees trickling in and creating a wave in the generally cheerful and polite culture. Today we saw the Greenpeace boat parked at the harbor, with signs attached to its sides, condemning coal […]
Special mention on a fledgling portal
Thanks to Steven’s Portal for his vote of confidence: we’re a featured link for May. His portal is focused on the efforts of people who are helping and healing the world.
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The ocean down under
A recent article on ocean acidification from down under. We didn’t make it there during production; unfortunately carbon dioxide did. Ok, not that funny. But neither is climate change.
The Perfect Loaf
We stumbled on this bread shop close to where the filmmakers for A Sea Change are staying in Copenhagen. No sign outside, we just happened to peer in and saw these scrumptious loaves. They are as good as they look. The crust is chewy yet crisp, and the loaf itself moist. Yeast-free: the bread rises […]
Visit to Anchorage
Three photos from the Sea Change crew’s visit to Alaska in the Summer of 2007: On the waterfront Claudia in the Chugach preserve At the home of activist Anna Davidson
Welcome to our new site!
Welcome to our newly-designed website! We hope you’ll take some time to click on the links above to check out our new and updated sections, to leave comments here on our blog, and to join our email list for receiving updates about the film. For users of newsreader software such as NetNewsWire and others, we […]
They get it in Europe
The European Union is stepping up to the plate. Even though the full ramifications of ocean acidification aren’t yet known, they’re not waiting around. Rather, they’re launching an EU-wide initiative to study the phenomenon. Ocean acidification is happening today and it’s happening on top of global warming, so we are in double trouble" stated [Jelle] […]
What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger
Some organisms seem to be adapting to ocean acidification. Live Science is reporting on a study conducted by scientists at the University of Washington of tiny plants called coccolithophores. A kind of algae, they respond to increased acidity by building thicker shells. This does not mean go out and buy that Hummer you’ve been thinking […]