A few words to update everyone on the FlipFlopi.com venture. It has become a lot more than one boat raising awareness from port to port. It is now supporting a whole ecosystem of actors and participants within the exercise of stopping single use plastic. An inspiring group of people who are an inspiration to the world.

For all updates on their work please visit their website flipflopi.com

For those of you who are not yet aware of them, the plasticodyssey.org is a team that single-handedly went from beach cleanups to sharing their message about waste and how to prevent it from getting into the oceans! Read their adventure at www.plasticodyssey.org

I recently had the chance to listen to Isobel Harris and Niall McGrath, both engineering students in Edinburgh who decided to build a robot prototype to help Project Seagrass with their own solutions. The called their exercise Robocean, and look to basically assist and scale the exercise of bringing back seagrass meadows in a faster way in order to help store CO2... they are basically helping the planet, nothing less. 

In full admiration of their work and looking forward to follow their progress.

A few words on why it is essential to meet the sustainable development goals before 2030. 

2021 started, despite the naysayers and the doom talk, the glass is half full and it is entirely up to us to keep doing whatever we can keep supporting the oceans and the planet. The challenges to reach 2030 in the steps of the Paris Agreement and supported by the Sustainable development goals is a start. So are the Earthshots, and the many more exercises out there... the whole point is to actually take part in the solutions as the clock is indeed ticking. The glass is half full and it is up to us to keep filling it up!

I hear a lot of people complaining about 2020, I do not feel that way. I think it has been a great year and extremely interesting! 

A few words on the future of the Mediterranean basin and how it will be affected by climate change as reported by the study of the Medecc.org, Mediterranean experts on climate and environmental change in their report which happens to be the first Mediterranean assesment report!

In the race to curve the issues around climate change by 2030 I choose to see the glass as half full. We need to keep going. The Race to 2030!

A few words to thank everyone who has listened to this podcast, and a round of applause to inspire more people to share their thoughts and ideas on the oceans and sustainability in general. 

A few words on the potentially revolutionnary new wave technology developped by Eco Wave Power and lead by an inspired innovator by the name of Inna Braverman. For further information, search for Eco Wave Power.