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Tag: Oceana Fri, March 19, 2010

• Coastal Cities Move Cautiously on Bag Ban

  Sep 06, 2009, by Traci Hukill Environment
  

  It’s hard to believe that Rwanda, a nation nearly destroyed by civil war 15 years ago, has it over Santa Cruz in the eco-conscious department, but there it is: it and 18 other developing nations have banned plastic bags. We haven’t.

• Time for An Oceans Policy Overhaul

  Sep 02, 2009, by Jim Ayers Opinion
  

  “The Mayors’ Summit was about more than just plastic litter,” writes Jim Ayers, vice-president of Oceana and director of the Exxon Valdez cleanup. “It was about recognizing that we all have a shared past and future dependent on healthy oceans, and that efforts to protect them are now paramount in the face of climate change and ocean acidification.”