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Category: environment

  • Logs of Inspirations

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    The question came up recently: When was the last time I dove in Baja? I took out my old dive logs and took a look. I dove twice at the Cabo Pulmo Marine Park and remember all the huge boulders underwater and the fish that were on the same scale. The trip was before I…

  • More Tools. Sandscaping

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    Here’s a clever ‘tool’: Drink Holder, Zelda’s Restaurant, Capitola, CA Another CAT at the beach… …sandscaping the river channel back to it’s summer location. We learned that it’s an annual move. Your guess? Something to do with the channel move Seagulls and summer homes Freshening up for summer

  • Reduction Ideas

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    Friend, fellow jeweler, and Out on a Whim store owner, Beki Haley, is looking for ideas on how to reduce plastic use at her store and at shows. If you have some ideas, head on over to her blog and share.

  • The Gold Coast

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    During a recent dive and snorkeling trip to Hawaii’s Gold Coast (the west side of the Island of Hawaii) we noticed fewer yellow tangs than we had in the past. Every time we go there seem to be less. One of the dive guides explained that the island is one of the few places that…

  • Humpback Whales: Breaching and Singing

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    The picture of a humpback whale breaching was taken on a recent trip to a dive site. The underwater video from on one of our dives allows you hear the whale singing. We were underwater when this underwater earthquake hit. The quake was very loud underwater and reverberated unlike anything we’d heard and felt before.…

  • Green Jewelry

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    On Saturday I attended the Green Jewelry class at the Revere Academy of Jewelry Arts in SF. The day was full of interesting information that ranged from how metals, diamonds and gemstones are mined to what we can do to help with the environmental and social issues due to mining. We learned tips about rethinking our…

  • Sea Glass Hunting

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    As I head out to hunt more sea glass glass today, I hope my glass to plastic/foam ratio is higher than on my last two trips.  I know – ewwww – it’s better I pick it up and sanitize my hands than leave it for birds and other creatures to eat.

  • Whale Shark!

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    Until last week, the longest I’d ever seen a whale shark is twelve seconds over eight years ago. I know this because that’s exactly how long the video of my first whale shark encounter is. After the last dive of the trip last week, the boat captain starting yelling down to us as we were…

  • the News

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    I headed over the the CNN website to find out about tonight’s “Planet in Peril” show highlighting the 100 million to 10 death toll in the man vs shark war, and saw this headline: “World’s corals reefs are vanishing, report says”. While I’m glad our largest eco system (oceans cover 2/3rds of our world’s surface)…

  • Coral: Slow, Beautiful, and Precious

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    I ran across the Too Precious to Wear website today http://www.tooprecioustowear.org/I think the site does a nice job of providing an overview of the affect that coral collecting has; both scientifically and on the local economies. The site also provides a list of alternatives to using coral. Those of you who know me already know…