Water as a Metaphor for Resistance
"Power is like water. It flows all around us at all times. Sometimes it takes the liquid form of politics-in-action...Sometimes it takes the solid form of settled law: policy is power frozen. Sometime...
21 Feb 20254min
Eco-Psychology
Eco-psychology studies the relationships between people and nature, and seeks to develop ways to expand the emotional connections between individuals and the natural world. There is progression in the...
10 Feb 20255min
Eudaemonism: A Word for the Ocean
Eudaemonism: What does it mean? What does it have to do with happiness? And what is its context for the ocean? Tune in to find out. About World Ocean Radio World Ocean Radio is a weekly series of fi...
29 Jan 20255min
A Distillation of Purpose
What are the five key reasons for ocean conservation? What are the five areas where progress matters most? With the world in an off-axis state of turmoil, W2O founder Peter Neill is taking stock this ...
23 Jan 20255min
An Exemplary Place in Iceland
This week on World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill shares views and observations of the town of Isafjordur, Iceland, and the values it possesses that give the area its unique identity. About World Oc...
16 Jan 20254min
What's in a Knot?
KNOT: a word with many definitions: from a tight constriction to something hard to solve; a cluster of persons or things; an ornamental ribbon; a closed curve in three dimensional space. And of course...
10 Jan 20254min
At the Fishhouses
At the Fishhouses, is among our favorite poems here at World Ocean Observatory. In its richly-detailed mastery, it distills poet Elizabeth Bishop’s seaside meditations, evokes the clarity of meaning c...
30 Des 20244min
Christmas at Sea
Each holiday season on World Ocean Radio we return with a special reading of "Christmas at Sea", an evocative poem by Robert Louis Stevenson written in 1883. Stevenson, the son of a lighthouse enginee...
23 Des 20244min
