We open season two of Rising Tide talking with Andres Soto, community organizer for Citizens for a Better Environment, multi-talented musician (that’s him on Sax) and steering committee member of Richmond, California’s Point Molate Alliance. Andres will introduce you to the diverse shoreline city of Richmond where Rising Tide is based and where he was raised. His insights into local history, organizing, social justice and the fight to keep the last undeveloped natural headland on San Francisco Bay in public hands will leave you inspired.  

Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!

Learn more at bluefront.org

If you missed her on NPR’s ‘Science Friday’ hear our friend Author and Journalist Cynthia Barnett share stories from her new book ‘The Sound of the Sea – Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans’ including the role ‘feminist science’ played in nature studies and who ‘She sells seashells by the seashore’ is really all about. Also she tells us why, despite Florida’s killer red tides, rising seas and other disasters she still has hope for her native state’s future.

Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!

Learn more at bluefront.org

The day before Hurricane Ida devastated Louisiana, the Gulf and then the Northeast we spoke with New Orlean’s Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Mark Schleifstein (now reporting on the wake of Ida) about his experiences during Hurricane Katrina, failed levees, coastal restoration and how sea level rise and flooding will impact the future of Louisiana and the world. Listen to this timely and alarming interview about life in the Greenhouse Century.

Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!

Learn more at bluefront.org

We talk to long-distance adventure swimmer, author and activist Matt Moseley about his first-ever swims in the ocean, rivers and across Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans, now hit with yet another catastrophic hurricane.  He explains about feeling like a fish out of water and what running out of water could mean for 40 million people across the West.   Plus he offers some hope and solutions one can pursue.

Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein.  This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better.  The ocean is rising, and so are we!

Learn more at bluefront.org

From Iowa to an Oscar, Louie Psihoyos continues to engage people with his famed National Geographic photography, award-winning films including ‘The Cove’ and ‘Racing Extinction’ and projected images. His larger than life endangered species vying for our attention on the Empire State building and the Vatican and his evolving views on food and social movements are just a few of the things we discuss with him.

Dianna and Julia Cohen are two of the co-founders of the Plastic Pollution Coalition. Mixing lifetimes of art and activism they talk about the challenges of plastic pollution, including countering industry propaganda about recycling.  Along with ocean and human health impacts and actions we can all take,  they offer insights, opportunities and solutions to take us Beyond petroleum-based Plastic Pollution.

Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein.  This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better.  The ocean is rising, and so are we!

Learn more at bluefront.org

This week we speak with marine mammal veterinarian and disease pioneer Dr. Frances Gulland.  One of three members of the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission, we speak to her about her decades of unique work from treating sick sea lions to studying dead whales (while avoiding hungry white sharks) to Flipper’s future in a changing world.

Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein.  This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better.  The ocean is rising, and so are we!

Learn more at bluefront.org

We talk with the renown marine life artist Wyland about his art, his life, his life-sized whaling walls, where he gets his inspiration (hint, he’s a dedicated diver), some of his adventures and the new edgier direction he’s taking his artwork balancing wonder and warning for our blue world.

Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein.  This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better.  The ocean is rising, and so are we!

Learn more at bluefront.org

Jeremy Jackson, one of the world’s leading ocean ecologists, paleobiologists and conservationists talks to us about his hopes and concerns about the state of the ocean, the land and human civilization.  He also tells us about his work over time, rapid climate change, coral reef migration and the kind of science needed to turn the tide.

Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein.  This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better.  The ocean is rising, and so are we!

Learn more at bluefront.org

Join us in conversation with Ana Blanco, Executive Director of the International Ocean Film Festival.  We talk about the ocean in our living rooms and theaters, how documentaries and other media from Cousteau TV specials to this year’s Academy Award winning ‘My Octopus Teacher,’ help connect people to the ocean in both its wonder and its warnings.  Join us to learn more about this unique film fest and some of Ana (and our) favorite ocean films.

Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein.  This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better.  The ocean is rising, and so are we!

Learn more at bluefront.org