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Slat, Boyan, "How the Oceans Can Clean Themselves"
Boyan Slat combines environmentalism, creativity, and technology to tackle global issues of sustainability and pollution.
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Oceanography
When Jacques Piccard started his first deep-sea expedition in 1960, the world’s oceans still seemed healthy and clean.
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Sushi: The Global Catch
This film questions the sustainability of the four billion dollar global sushi industry, which has put the Blue Fin Tuna at risk of extinction.
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Last Ocean: Paradies am Ende der Welt [The Last Ocean]
This film follows the impacts of fishing on the Ross Sea, a deep bay of Antarctica’s southern ocean.
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Bekenntnisse eines Öko-Terroristen [Confessions of an Eco-Terrorist]
The documentary follows trials and antics of the captain and crew from the radical activist Sea Shepherd Conversation Society, as they carry out campaigns on the ocean to save sea mammals.
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Gyre: Creating Art From a Plastic Ocean
This film follows a team travelling to Alaska to examine how much of our garbage has ended up in the region’s gyre—a rotating ocean current.
Perspectives Article
Line in the Sand: The Promises and Perils of Ordering the Ocean’s Edge
Looking at coasts, this paper reveals the extent to which unruliness occurs when the human need for stability negotiates with nature’s dynamism, highlighting how we will be forced to renegotiate our relationship with the sea.
Perspectives Article
Reflecting on Unruliness
This reflection on unruliness refers to all papers in the volume, demonstrating how the concept of unruly environments provides a perspective of human-nature relationships from the vantage point of humans.
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Ocean Odyssey
Ocean Odyssey uses computer generated imagery to explore the deep oceans through the eyes of a sperm whale, the largest predator that has ever lived.
Perspectives Article
The “Flying Dutchmen”: Ships’ Tales of Toxic Waste in a Globalized World
As a space where terrestrial jurisdiction did not apply, the ocean has often served as a repository for unwanted things, whether people or objects. This article traces the journeys of several ships and their cargos of toxic waste in the 1970s and 1980s.