🎉 Happy 15th Birthday to Us! 🎉 We’ve been riding the wave of ocean conservation for 15 years! 🌊 🌊 Celebrate with us by making a splashy $15 donation. Every dollar helps protect the ocean and grow the conservation movement. The Healthy Ocean Coalition’s mission is to build a network of ocean lovers who work together to advance ocean conservation that centers the ocean and people. Will you help us work toward a healthy and resilient ocean? https://lnkd.in/etepf5mn #HealthyOceanTurns15 #Donate15 #HealthyOcean #15for15
Healthy Ocean Coalition
Civic and Social Organizations
Boston, MA 450 followers
We are a national network of ocean lovers dedicated to protecting our ocean, coasts, and Great Lakes.
About us
Our Mission We are a national network of ocean lovers – a free-to-join coalition of the willing - dedicated to preventing the exploitation, destruction, and neglect of our ocean, coasts, and Great Lakes. Who We Are We are change makers guided by the principle that we are stronger and more influential together. By collaborating as an inclusive and vocal ocean community, we ensure that conservation policies in the United States are informed by and reflective of the people, regions, and wildlife that they are designed to serve – you. All too often when it comes to building meaningful relationships with members of Congress and other decision makers, people feel lost and do not know where to begin. It is our job to work with our members in realizing their conservation goals and serve as their guide along the path toward achieving them. Come join our community of grassroots groups. If you’re interested in participating in meetings on Capitol Hill, we’re here to help. Join us to sharpen your advocacy skills by attending our biannual ocean and coastal advocacy trainings. Connect with us and our supportive community of conservation champions to gain a deeper understanding of policy issues, how to influence them, and beyond. We welcome you to join us on our mission to safeguard our blue planet.
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- Industry
- Civic and Social Organizations
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- Boston, MA
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2009
- Specialties
- ocean conservation and advocacy training
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Employees at Healthy Ocean Coalition
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Hermina Glass-Hill, MHP
Award-Winning Historian, Ocean Abolitionist, Public Speaker, Scholar-Activist, Philanthropist
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Sarah Winter Whelan
Executive Director at Healthy Ocean Coalition
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Jenna Valente
Director of Advocacy, Healthy Ocean Coalition
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David Riera M.Sc., Ed.S.
FEF McKnight Doctoral y FIU D.E.I. Fellow at FIU CASE & Healthy Ocean Coalition Advisory Board Member
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We are so grateful to work in community with the incredibly inspiring, talented humans Elbi Ashley Elm and Hermina Glass-Hill, MHP. Their collaboration has raised the bar for how the HOC engages in centering community and people. Every time we host a healthy ocean advocacy academy it just gets better and more impactful.
Award-Winning Historian, Ocean Abolitionist, Public Speaker, Scholar-Activist, Philanthropist
As the senior field representative at Oceana in Georgia it was wonderful to collaborate and participate in Healthy Ocean Coalition's 2024 Advocacy Academy in Savannah, Georgia and present with HOC's Sarah Winter Whelan and Jenna Valente, Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary superintendent Stan Rogers, the amazing Ashley Elm, and Georgia Interfaith Power & Light's coastal coordinator Beth Remmes! The Advocacy Academy was well attended by an incredible co-hort from Georgia, South Carolina, and New York. It was great to see seasoned ocean advocates like The Grey Gowder, Jessica Howell - Edwards of Wild Cumberland, and Miracle F. an incredible Atlanta-based housing activist. And what a wonderful new group of ocean advocates like Clemson University urban planning grad student Charles Morrison, Kasey Gaylord-Opalewski of EarthEcho International, Shanika Jones, Kanisha Jones of @Black Voters Matter, Evans Primus, Kendi Beyah, and University of Georgia environmental anthropology graduate Amaja! #ocean #oceanadvocacy
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There’s a rising tide of ocean policy leadership! Azul, Center for American Progress Urban Ocean Lab, & more are teaming up to present #Upwell2024: A Wave of Ocean Justice! Come learn from expert panelists, guest speakers, and many more ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eQYV_VKj #OceanJustice #Equity #CollaborativeConservation
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"The good news is that about one-third of the assessed areas are working well. These areas are well designed and implemented and are likely to yield meaningful conservation benefits." The not so great news? The two thirds of MPAs need help to make them "well designed, well implemented, and just."
Excited to announce a paper we've been working on for a looong time published today. We looked at the world's 100 largest marine protected areas and assessed them according to The MPA Guide. Short story: A lot of MPAs are poorly implemented, poorly designed, and/or unjust. With this paper we've put some numbers to these shortcomings. The good news is that about one-third of the assessed areas are working well. These areas are well designed and implemented and are likely to yield meaningful conservation benefits. But there clearly needs to be a shift toward developing a network of global protected areas that are well designed, well implemented, and just. To this end, Center for American Progress has implored governments, nongovernmental organizations, and individuals to focus less on the top-line numbers and go “beyond 30×30.” I've been quoting little facts from this paper for over a year now -- including during my recent talk at Our Ocean. It's really exciting to have it published and out in the world to share. Please keep an eye out for a webinar where we explain our findings. Congrats and thanks to first author Beth Pike and our co-authors Jessica (Coulter) MacCarthy, Joachim Claudet, Sarah O. Hameed, Nikki Harasta, Kirsten Grorud-Colvert, Jenna Sullivan-Stack, Barbara Horta e Costa, Emanuel Gonçalves, and Lance Morgan https://lnkd.in/de_AfFVH
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Did you know the Healthy Ocean Coalition is part of the America the Beautiful for All Coalition (ATB4All), focusing on the President's goal to conserve 30% of U.S. lands, waters, and ocean by 2030. ATB4All is the largest and most representative coalition ever assembled for the most ambitious conservation goal ever set in the United States. This year we are collectively supporting 20 recommendations to the Biden Administration & Congress for land, water, and ocean conservation, access to nature, disaster response and this spring we went to Washington, DC and spent time on Capitol Hill with other Coalition member organizations and advocates to urge them to implement our recommendations! We got to meet with Senator Warnock to discuss how we’re going to collectively advance 30x30 and Justice40, along with many other incredible decision makers. A serious shoutout goes to Alex Troutman for being a rockstar advocate and HOC member! #AmericaTheBeautifulForAll #30x30 #Justice40 #Beyond30x30
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Please do yourself a favor and watch Angelo Villagomez speak about the importance of 30x30 and the hurdles we need to overcome to actually make it stick. #30x30 #AmericaTheBeautiful #AmericaTheBeautifulForAll #OceanJustice #Equity
What does the future of ocean conservation look like? CAP’s Angelo Villagomez has some ideas. Check out the highlights from his remarks at #OurOcean2024! 🌊🌅🏝 #Beyond30x30
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(insert sobbing and sniffling noises here) A new study offers a potential worst case scenario: Octopuses could lose vision and struggle to survive due to heat stress by the end of the century if ocean temperatures continue to rise at the projected rate. Previous research suggested octopuses to be highly adaptable, but the latest research found that heat stress from global heating could result in impaired eyesight and increased deaths of pregnant mothers and their unborn young. While this octopus may look cute in glasses, this is no joking matter. This highlights one more potentially devastating loss to biodiversity and marine ecosystems from climate change. Source: The Guardian, Octopuses could lose eyesight and struggle to survive if ocean temperatures keep rising, study finds, April 10, 2024. https://lnkd.in/ez7CZVzP
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The Blake Plateau, an area of the Southeast Atlantic Ocean larger than the state of South Carolina, is a southern treasure. Why is it so special? For one, it is home to the largest deep-sea coral habitat in the WORLD, with structures of live coral built on top of centuries of old coral, some of which are taller than the flipping Washington Monument! Second, it is fueled by the powerful Gulf Stream and has dynamic ocean ecosystems from surface to seabed: its Sargassum seaweed meadows, methane seeps, and deep-sea corals support a diversity of marine life. And that's just two of many. We now have an opportunity to protect the culturally significant sites and wildlife ecosystems of the Blake Plateau. Scientists worldwide are calling for strong protections for at least 30 percent of the world’s ocean to preserve biodiversity. But less than 1 percent of the Southeast’s waters are strongly conserved. Protecting the important marine areas on the Blake Plateau is a great place to start increasing that number to a biologically sound place. credit to Brooke Blosser for this amazing social math! Check out the full scope of the Blake Plateau: https://lnkd.in/e_ek58dG
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After a (very) long and labyrinthine process, the two key appropriations bills related to the ocean were signed into law over the weekend. Democratic leaders in Congress heard our persistent call to oppose anti-ocean policies and successfully defended against poison pill riders which would harm our ocean, climate, and communities. 🎉 🌊 Incredibly grateful to our ocean champs in Congress like Rep. Chellie Pingree and Senator Jeff Merkley and leadership for pulling this off including Senator Patty Murray, Rep. Rosa DeLauro, Senator Schumer and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries. Thank you for standing up for #OceanClimateAction!
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