Where The Ocean Meets:
Where The Ocean Meets:
Podcast Description
Since I started CleanHub to prevent ocean plastic, I've met fascinating scientists, activists, and entrepreneurs working toward healthier oceans.
This podcast is for ocean lovers and those who want to become one. It's for those who want to learn about marine protection. Through these conversations, I explore the people behind the solutions, what drives them, and how their work creates healthier oceans.
Join me for inspiring stories of hope beyond doom and gloom.
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
Centers around themes of marine protection, technology for conservation, and personal stories of changemakers, with episodes discussing topics such as the integration of AI in ocean data management and innovative coral restoration techniques, and highlighting individual journeys from different backgrounds in ocean advocacy.
My biggest life regret? Studying business instead of marine biology. 💔 The ocean fills me with happiness, wonder, and fascination—yet I know so little about it.
By day, I fight ocean plastic pollution to make amends. By night, I create this show. ☯️
This podcast is my journey, as an amateur ocean enthusiast, to explore the ocean as an ecosystem, playground, and economic powerhouse—no expertise required to dive in (though experts might enjoy hearing from their colleagues).
If you’re curious about the force covering 70% of our planet and sustaining life, join me—listen and follow now. 🌊
Imagine you had one organ in your body that produces 50% of the air you breathe. It helps regulate your body temperature to a point where you can survive. It absorbs gases that would make living impossible for you. It delivers nutrients that keep you alive.
All these things done by one single organ.
How much would you want to know about that organ? How much money would you want to be spent on researching that organ? And how would you adjust your behavior to keep that organ alive?
Probably you'd give it all the attention you can.
Now, this organ doesn't exist, but the ocean basically provides these services to you every single day. It absorbs 25% of CO2, it produces 50% of oxygen, and it absorbs 90% of heat. It feeds us with protein (if you eat seafood), and it serves as shipping lines for the majority of the goods we consume. And yet, we don't know a whole lot about it.
That's why I sat down with Dr. Tom Pickerell, a marine biologist and the Head of the Global Ocean Program at the World Resources Institute. With him, I work through Ocean Literacy 101 and discuss whether a sustainable blue economy is possible.
About Tom Pickerell:
Tom is a marine biologist working with the World Resources Institute's Ocean Program, supporting the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy—18 serving heads of state committed to protecting and sustainably managing 100% of their national waters. He's also a member of the Marine Stewardship Council's Stakeholder Advisory Committee and was inspired by Jacques Cousteau's vision of farming the ocean responsibly.
KEY TOPICS:
Why ocean literacy is the missing piece in environmental education
The economic case for ocean protection (and it's massive)
How overfishing, pollution, and climate change interconnect
What Marine Protected Areas actually do (and don't do)
The Monterey Bay sea otter story—a perfect example of trophic cascades
Why multilateralism for the ocean is both succeeding and failing right now
The one type of seafood everyone can eat guilt-free
How 18 countries representing 37.5% of national waters are committed to 100% sustainable management
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