David Helvarg (born April 10, 1951) is an American journalist and environmental activist. He is the founder and president of the marine conservation lobbying organization Blue Frontier Campaign.He is associated with the 'Seaweed rebellion' marine environmentalist movement. He is an author; his writing is often related to marine environmental activism, such as his second book, Blue Frontier. His first book, The War against the Greens, argues that violent organized resistance is being orchestrated against the environmental movement.

Helvarg began his career as a freelance journalist, became a war correspondent, then returned to news journalism. He writes about politics, AIDS, and sea life. He has reported from every continent and been widely published. His journalism and environmental work inform his advocacy.

Early life

Helvarg was born April 10, 1951, in New York City, the son of refugees; his mother left Nazi Germany and his father escaped civil war in Ukraine. He attended Boston University and earned a bachelor's degree in history from Goddard College in Vermont, in 1974. The civil warfare known as "The Troubles" was at a height, and Helvarg submitted reports on the conflict to the Liberation News Service. Helvarg focused on the role of women in the conflict, After graduating from college, he moved to San Diego to work as a freelance journalist. He published "Ireland Diary; A Day in the Life" in the underground publication San Diego Door, and wrote for the weekly newspaper San Diego Newsline.

From 1979 to 1983, Helvarg covered the U.S. role in Central American conflicts, initially as a radio reporter for The Associated Press and Pacifica Radio in Nicaragua and El Salvador. the arrival of U.S. military equipment, and an interview with Sister Ita Ford. He was arrested by the Salvadoran army and deported from El Salvador in 1983 while reporting on a massacre of civilians.

After returning to California, he qualified as a private investigator,

A visit to Antarctica in 1999 became material for several articles and books, and a daily log was published in Slate, the online news magazine. His professional exposure to green activism and his ocean sports activities intersected in marine conservation, which became his focus. While researching his second book Blue Frontier—Saving America's Living Seas (2001), Helvarg concluded that marine conservation needed its own focal point for activism in the United States, so he moved to Washington, D.C., and founded a lobbying organization: the Blue Frontier Campaign. He also became a member of the board of Reef Relief, a more specific marine conservation advocacy group, about which he had made a television documentary in 1994.

Helvarg attracted attention in early 2005 for a newspaper article in which he addressed comments made by conservative Christians (particularly James Dobson of the Focus on the Family) regarding perceived homosexual tendencies of SpongeBob SquarePants due to an explanation of the sexual biology of ocean life (Los Angeles Times January 26, 2005). In response to suggestions by Dobson and others that the We Are Family Foundation was exploiting popular animated characters, including SpongeBob, to promote the acceptance of homosexuality among young people, Helvarg described the "immorality" in the oceans. <!---LA Times, January 26, 2005|Helvarg20050126--->

Books

The Golden Shore - California's Love Affair with the Sea

The Golden Shore "The Golden Shore" (in imprint of St. Martin's) 2013. "Boy, I loved this book. David Helvarg captures, in a really readable way, the quirky and head-over-heels love we have for our seas." - Ted Danson.

"Having lived in California for forty-four years, I was surprised by how much I learned from David Helvarg's book The Golden Shore. It blew my mind. If you have the same love affair for the beautiful California coast and ocean as I do, this marvelous and compelling book is a must-read." - Jean-Michel Cousteau.

Saved by the Sea -- A Love Story with Fish

"Saved by the Sea"(an imprint of St. Martin's) 2010. Ocean Explorer Sylvia Earle says, "This book has the power to change the way you think about the world, about yourself, and the future of humankind." Helvarg writes what he knows about the changes in his life and our Ocean world over the last half century.

"Rescue Warriors - The U.S. Coast Guard, America's Forgotten Heroes" (St. Martin's 2009)

Robert Kennedy Jr. says, "David Helvarg's terrific new book takes you to the cutting edge of adventure as he rides along with the men and women of the U.S. Coast Guard. This in-depth and lively look at the history and changing missions of America's 'Rescue Warriors' should be considered a must-read for anyone who loves the water or cares about the safety, security, and stewardship of our nation from sea to shining sea."

Bill McKibben writes, "They say that 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help' is the ultimate oxymoron. But as this vivid book makes powerfully clear, in the case of the Coast Guard it's the simple truth. Stow this volume next to the chart case."

"50 Ways To Save the Ocean" (Inner Ocean, 2006)

Sylvia Earle writes, "Combining wisdom and humor, scientific accuracy and artistic genius, Helvarg and Toomey show why the ocean matters to us all...Everyone, from toddler to tycoon, can find inspiration for action in this must-have guide to ocean care."

"This is a great book - it makes saving the oceans fun and doable (which it is, by the way)" adds actor Ted Danson

"This book is an important guide for the public to saving our oceans." - Leon Panetta, former chair - Pew Oceans commission & co-chair of the Joint Ocean Commission Initiative, former Director of the CIA, current United States Secretary of Defense.

The War against the Greens

The War against the Greens (1994) examines opposition to the U.S. environmental movement, including the Wise Use movement. Wise Use aims to facilitate extensive use of natural resources and to privatize the National Park Service. The first edition explored the origins of the organization in 1988 and its covert support by the administration of U.S. President George H. W. Bush. Helvarg identified its funding and the multinational corporations and other powerful figures with which it was associated. He catalogued the use of violence that he believed to be organized by the movement against environmental activists, and the ineffective response of law-enforcement agencies. A revised edition published in 2004 extended this to cover the early years of President George W. Bush's administration.

Wisconsin Stewardship Network News described it as a book that "provides a fascinating and frightening insight into the violent fringe of the anti-conservation Wise Use movement [… and recommends it] in its entirety to readers who want a detailed examination of the origins, development and violent tendencies of Wise Use." The opposing view was put by Jesse Walker who, reviewing the book for American Enterprise, wrote that it "offers environmentalists a conspiracy theory to account for the populist backlash against their movement". Helvarg had accused Wise Use of astroturfing; Walker described his book as "a weapon in a propaganda war".<!---Walker 1995|Walker1995--->

War against the Greens is widely cited by activists inside the environmental movement (for example Community Rights Counsel and Land Tenure Center ) and gave rise to numerous rebuttals from Wise Use and its supporters (including Ron Arnold).

Blue Frontier—Dispatches from America's Ocean Wilderness

Helvarg's second book, Blue Frontier— Dispatches from America's Ocean Wilderness (2001, revised 2006), was named on the Los Angeles Times "Best Books of 2001" <!--by Sierra Club Books-->republished in 2006. In it Helvarg explores the effects of human activity in general, and of commerce and policy in particular, on marine life. He postulates a trend towards destruction, and suggests that it is possible to reverse this. He then describes some of the people and groups that are working to preserve or enhance the marine environment.

This book prompted Senator John Kerry to observe that "David Helvarg underscores the full measure of the challenges before us: If we hope to explore the Blue Frontier, we must travel cautiously, repairing the damage we have done, understanding before we exploit, and always preserving the natural systems that have created it."<!---Blue Frontier Foundation web-site <http://bluefront.org/> Retrieved April 7, 2005|BFFweb---> It was also one of the catalysts for the establishment of the Blue Frontier Campaign and has become a definitive text for US marine conservation (characterized as 'the Seaweed rebellion').<!---Offutt 2005, Ocean Project 2004, Surfride Foundation 2005|BFDefText--->

The Ocean and Coastal Conservation Guide

Helvarg is the editor of Blue Frontier Campaign's first major publication: The Ocean and Coastal Conservation Guide (2005), a directory for those interested in the protection and restoration of United States coastal lands and waters. Blue Frontier Campaign plans to publish a new edition of the guide every two years.

This reference book lists over 2,000 organizations involved in the conservation of the oceans and coastal areas that border the United States. Each entry includes contact information and a brief description of that organization's activities. The directory is divided into four listings: a geographical listings of groups; relevant government agencies; academic marine programs; and marine and coastal parks, and protected areas.

Feeling the Heat

Helvarg contributed two chapters to Feeling the Heat—Reports from the Frontlines of Climate Change (2004): Chapter Eight 'Australia, Florida and Fiji: Reefs At Risk' and Chapter 10 'Antarctica: The Ice is Moving' are about threatened ecosystems.

The book is a development of a suite of articles that appeared in the October/November 2000 edition of E/The Environmental Magazine. The publishers "aimed to move beyond the scientific debate […] to document […] the evidence for a changing climate".<!---Motavalli, emagazine.com|MotavalliE---> Each chapter is a first person account of places threatened by global warming. According to Helvarg, warming waters are killing the world's coral and threatening the extinction of Australia's Great Barrier Reef and the reefs around the Florida Keys, while the rising waters threaten to engulf the entire ocean nation of Fiji. In Antarctica he observed scientists measuring the krill population and concludes that the reduction that they found is a consequence of increased water temperatures.

Broadcasting

Helvarg has produced more than 40 television documentaries broadcast by PBS, The Discovery Channel, and others. His 1986 documentary Sex Inc. aired on KQED. Other documentaries focused on the military, politics, health and environmental topics. He is a commentator for the National Public Radio station Public Radio International's program Marketplace.

His first documentaries drew upon his experiences as a war correspondent in Northern Ireland and Central America. When he moved to San Francisco he was commissioned to produce programs about AIDS awareness for the Hispanic community and these led to other documentaries about Hispanic health. In 1989 Globe TV commissioned a program about Greenpeace to coincide with the launch of the new Rainbow Warrior vessel. This brought Helvarg into contact with green activists, with whose cause he found he sympathized. He would return to green themes in 1991 and 1992 but in the meantime he continued to make series about health, and topical news. From 1992 onwards his energies were focussed on environmental programming with some health commissions.

As of 2005 he continues to plan a series of documentaries about ocean stewardship to support the work of the Blue Frontier Campaign.

Blue Frontier Campaign

In 2003 Helvarg founded the marine conservation activist organization Blue Frontier Campaign, of which he became the president. Originally entitled the "Ocean Awareness Project"<!---Helvarg 2003|Helvarg2003--->, the Campaign has established a nationwide network of grassroots lobbyists. It is campaigning for an American Oceans Act to protect what the members call "our public seas" and is working to improve local, state, federal and global policies on marine conservation. Helvarg writes articles and books on its behalf. He edited the 2005–2006 Ocean and Coastal Conservation Guide and (with Philippe Cousteau and 'Sherman's Lagoon' cartoonist Jim Toomey, the book, '50 Ways to Save the Ocean' and has organized several conferences: in Washington, D.C., in July 2004 and March 2009 and at the National Aquarium in Baltimore in April 2005 and San Francisco in 2005. These conferences brought together activists, academics, officials, and politicians in a series of seminars. The Campaign is based in Washington, D.C., and the San Francisco Bay Area where Helvarg lives.

Awards

Helvarg won his first national award in 1988 when he won an Emmy for community service in recognition of his work on AIDS Lifeline, a networked television AIDS awareness campaign. His subsequent awards include two National Association for Interpretation awards for Interpretive Communications (in 1989 and 1991), the Nike Earthwrite Award (1997), a National Health Information Award (1999) and a CINE <!--This is the organization's full name. It aims "to recognize and foster the highest quality of non-theatrical film and video production through its semi-annual competitions".--> Golden Eagle Award (1999). In 2005, Coastal Living magazine gave him their Leadership Award. In 2007 he won the Herman Melville Award.

Television and video works

  • 1982: Where The Bombs Are, Internment Memories, and Where Are They Now? (KFMB CBS, San Diego).
  • 1983: Reports from Central America (Swedish TV Channel One), Soldiers & Rebels (PBS National), and Amphibious Assault (KFMB CBS, San Diego).
  • 1985: Each One, Teach One (Coalition of Hispanic Health).
  • 1986: In The Shadow of Marcos, Sex, Inc., and Navy Town. (KQED, San Francisco).
  • 1987: John Hoagland — Frontline Photographer (PBS), Zap, and Troubled Waters (KQED, San Francisco).
  • 1988: Critical Condition and Sexual Roulette (AIDS Lifeline — Group W Syndication), Coming of Age (Coalition of Hispanic Health & Human Services) and John Hoagland — Frontline Photographer (Discovery Channel)
  • 1989: Warriors of the Rainbow, Alex de Grassi's Music of Bolivia, and Treasure of Tiwanaku (Globe TV, A&E Channel) and Net Profits (KQED, San Francisco, MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour).
  • 1990: Passive Smoking, Couples And Money, Handicapped Kids Go High Tech, and Inoculations Make Sense (Special Reports, Whittle) and Al Giddings Gear and Crime Lab (The Next Step, Discovery Channel).
  • 1991: Traffic 2010 and Beat the Back-Up (KPIX CBS San Francisco), Nuclear Nightmare and Driftnet Pirates (Geraldo Rivera's Now It Can Be Told), and Who Bombed Judi Bari? (KQED San Francisco PBS & KCET Los Angeles PBS).
  • 1992: Las Medicinas y Usted (Council On Family Health), Green For Life (KRON NBC San Francisco) and BDF — The Baja Expedition (Pacific Coast Marine).
  • 1994: Wildlife Crime Lab, Seattle Spokes, Reef Relief and Clean Air Cabs (PBS National).
  • 1995: Heroes of the Earth — Choi Yul's Korea (Golden Gate Productions) and Para Vivir Bien (Coalition of Hispanic Health & Human Services).
  • 1996: Predator Friendly Wool (PBS National) and La Tardeada (Coalition of Hispanic Health & Human Services).
  • 1997: International Rivers Network and Rainforest Action Network (Video News Releases).
  • 1998: Demuestra tu Carino: Vacuna a tu Bebe (Coalition of Hispanic Health & Human Services).
  • 1999: Antarctica's Giant Petrels and Antarctica — Cold facts on Climate Change (both for CNN).
  • 2002: Blue Frontier (Video News Release).

Bibliography

;Books

  • Helvarg, David, The War Against the Greens, (San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1994)
  • Helvarg, David, The War Against the Greens (Revised Edition), (Boulder: Johnson, 2004)
  • Helvarg, David, Blue Frontier—Saving America's Living Seas, (New York: WH Freeman, 2001)
  • Helvarg, David with Jim Toomey (Illustrator), 50 Ways to Save the Ocean (Inner Ocean Action Guide), (Maui, Hawai'i: Inner Ocean Publishing, 2006)
  • Helvarg, David (ed.), The Ocean and Coastal Conservation Guide (Island Press, 2005)
  • Motavalli, Jim (ed.), Feeling the Heat—Reports from the Frontlines of Climate Change, (New York: Routledge, 2004)
  • Helvarg, David, The Golden Shore: California’s Love Affair with the Sea, (Thomas Dunne Books, 2013)

;Selected Articles

<!--*"Women Increasingly Active in Irish Struggle." — Liberation News Service, April 1973.-->

<!--*"Northern Ireland at Easter: Temperatures Rising." — Liberation News Service, April 1973.-->

<!--*"British Undercover Squad Tied to Sectarian Murders." — Liberation News Service, May 1973.-->

<!--*"Armagh, Ireland —- A Town Divided." — Liberation News Service, May 1973.-->

  • "Ireland Diary; A Day in the Life." — San Diego Door, August 1974.

<!--*"Zoo Story." — San Diego Door, Aug. 1974.-->

<!--*"Cops to Sue, Investigate Complainants." — OB Rag, Nov. 1974.-->

<!--*"The Better to eat you with my Dear!" — San Diego Reader, Jan. 20–26, 1977.-->

<!--*"E's gone and invented a non-sexist pronoun." — In These Times, January 1977.-->

<!--*"Roadblocks in the CB future." — In These Times, Feb. 1977.-->

<!--*"The Ups and Downs of Belmont Park." — San Diego Reader, Feb. 10–16, 1977.-->

<!--*"Immigrants from over the border." — In These Times, March 1977.-->

<!--*"How San Diego took Care of its Wobblies." — San Diego Reader, March 10, 1977.-->

<!--*"SWAT squads: Waging War at home." — In These Times, April 20, 1977.-->

<!--*"Survivors." — San Diego Reader, April 21–27, 1977.-->

<!--*"The G-Men's Beach Files." — Coast Chronicle, April 29, 1977. -->

<!--*"War Stories." — San Diego Reader, Oct. 20–26, 1977.-->

<!--*"Mining the Sea — The Race Begins." — San Diego Newsline, Oct. 26, 1977.-->

<!--*"San Diego Voters Beat Down Nude Beach." — In These Times, Oct. 1977.-->

<!--*"Klan battles bar, bar battles back." — In These Times, Dec. 1977. -->

<!--*"Race to Control the Sea Floor." — In These Times, Dec. 14–20, 1977.-->

<!--*50 "Bottom Line" humor columns for San Diego Newsline, 1978-82.-->

<!--*"Nuclear Stockpile Here." — San Diego Newsline, Jan. 4, 1978.-->

<!--*"Life On A Sub." — In These Times, Feb. 1–7, 1978. -->

<!--*"It's an Old Saw but Music to the Ears." — In These Times, March 22–28, 1978.-->

<!--*"Donut War!" — In These Times, April, 1978.-->

<!--*La Costa John Duffy and His Badge of Gold." — San Diego Newsline, April 19–25, 1978.-->

<!--*"Why'd you shoot? he asked." — San Diego Newsline, May 3–9, 1978.-->

<!--*"Regulating the Undocumented." — Seven Days magazine, June 16, 1978.-->

<!--*"Rock & Roll is Here to Pay." — In These Times, Aug. 1978. -->

<!--*"What if they dropped the Big One now?" — San Diego Newsline, Aug. 9–15, 1978 -->

<!--*"Karate — A thing of the Spirit." — San Diego Newsline, Aug. 30 - Sept. 5, 1978.-->

<!--*"Guns." — In These Times, Sept. 13–19, 1978.-->

<!--*"Flipper Kills." — San Diego Newsline, Sept. 20–26, 1978.-->

<!--*"Strike looms at NASSCO." — San Diego Newsline, Sept. 27-Oct. 3, 1978.-->

<!--*"There's a man with a gun over there." — In These Times, Oct. 4–10, 1978.-->

<!--*"Beating Out the Bomb." — Seven Days magazine, Oct. 13, 1978.-->

<!--*"Guarding the Western Gate." — Seven Days, October 27, 1978.-->

<!--*"Oil on troubled water." — San Diego Newsline, Nov. 8–15, 1978.-->

<!--*"The Toughest Kid on the Block." — San Diego Reader, Nov. 18–23, 1978.-->

<!--*"Corporate Aliens Flood Baja." — San Diego Newsline, Dec. 20–26, 1978.-->

<!--*"Underwater Assassins." — In These Times, Dec. 20–26, 1978.-->

<!--*"Sexual Abuse 9 to 5." — San Diego Newsline, Jan. 10–16, 1979.-->

<!--*"Biting the Hand that Pinches." — In These Times, Feb, 1979.-->

<!--*"Borderline Jobs: $1.10 an Hour." — San Diego Newsline, Feb. 8–14, 1979.-->

<!--*"Activist Folk Group Survives." — Los Angeles Times, Feb. 19, 1979.-->

<!--*"Scripps' Fishy Business." — San Diego Newsline, March 7–13, 1979. -->

<!--*"The Dolphin At War." — H20 magazine, Spring, 1979.-->

<!--*"America's Think Tank in the Battle for the Seas." — Pacific News Service, May, 1979.-->

<!--*"Immigration Dilemma: Enforcing Fair Wages." — Pacific News Service, June 1979.-->

  • "On a mission with the Sandinistas." — Associated Press, June 19, 1979.

<!--*"Sandinista flag flies over Leon." — In These Times, July 4–10, 1979.-->

<!--*"Sandinistas "Cuban" arms from gangster black market." — In These Times, July 18–24, 1979.-->

<!--*"Triumph in Nicaragua." — In These Times, July 30–August 8, 1979.-->

<!--*"Antigua, Guatemala." — The San Diego Union, Dec. 9, 1979.-->

<!--*"I could have Sworn I heard..." — San Diego Reader, Dec. 20, 1979.-->

<!--*"Underwater Mining and the Third World." — H20 magazine, Spring 1980. -->

<!--*"The Court Jouster." — San Diego Reader, May 8, 1980.-->

<!--*"If They Want to Have a War, the Marines Want to Fight it." — San Diego Reader, May 29, 1980.-->

<!--*"Life on a Nuke Sub." — Enlisted Times, June, 1980.-->

<!--*"War Games." — In These Times, June 4–17, 1980.-->

<!--*"Will Ocean Graveyards for nuclear waste pollute the seas?" — Pacific News Service, June, 1980.-->

<!--*"Three Artists Nurture the Political Poster." — Los Angeles Times, June 30, 1980.-->

<!--*"Nicaragua celebrates year of freedom." — SF Sunday Examiner & Chronicle, July 20, 1980.-->

<!--*"Nicaragua - Starting Over." — In These Times, Sept. 3–9, 1980.-->

<!--*"U.S. Embassy Attacked in San Salvador." - The San Diego Union, Sept. 17, 1980.-->

<!--*"Violence mars reform programs." — In These Times, Sept. 24–30, 1980.-->

<!--*"Leftists End Occupation of OAS Offices." — The San Diego Union, Oct. 8, 1980.-->

<!--*"Salvadoran on Junta Says Copters Coming." — The San Diego Union, Oct. 17, 1980.-->

<!--*"How News leaks through El Salvador's Curtain of Fear." — Pacific News Service, Oct. 1980.-->

<!--*"Tense Anniversary for Junta." — In These Times, Nov. 5–11, 1980.-->

<!--*Central America: A reporter's ntoebook." — San Diego Newsline, Nov. 19–26, 1980.-->

<!--*"Independence in '81? Debate is Brisk in Belize." — The San Diego Union, Dec. 26, 1980.-->

<!--*"British Using Foreigners As Spies." — The San Diego Union, Dec. 27, 1980.-->

<!--*"Guerillas in Guatemala court the Indian majority." — In These Times, Jan. 14–20, 1981.-->

<!--*"The Perils of Hamburger Diplomacy." — In These Times, Feb. 18–24, 1981.-->

<!--*"El Salvador - Opposition has its own resources." — In These Times, March 4–10, 1981.-->

<!--*"Portrait of Four Martyrs — The El Salvador story that won't go away." — Pacific News Service, April, 1981. -->

<!--*"In El Salvador the left digs in for protracted fight." — San Diego Newsline, April 22–29, '81.-->

<!--*"Bodies on the Beach in El Salvador." — H20 magazine, Spring 1981. -->

<!--*"Salvadorean activist seeking asylum." — San Diego Newsline, May 13–20, 1981.-->

<!--*"The numbers war heats up while the body count rises." — In These Times, Aug. 1981.-->

<!--*"Salvador Strife Turns Embassy into Fortress." — San Diego Union, Aug. 3, 1981.-->

<!--*"The Private Sector in El Salvador is getting restless." — In These Times, Sept. 2–8, 1981.-->

<!--*"El Salvador - The lines are drawn in mountain areas." — In These Times, Sept. 9–15, 1981.-->

<!--*"Salvador's Ravaged Church Retreats to Middle Ground." — Pacific News Service, Sept. 1981.-->

<!--*"Belize says It May Accept U.S. Aid." — The San Diego Union, Sept. 21, 1981.-->

<!--*"Belize, new player in a troubled region." — In These Times, Oct. 7–13, 1981.-->

<!--*"Honduras - Yes, we have no banana republic." — In These Times, Oct. 14–20, 1981.-->

<!--*"El Salvador Refugees Criticize Aid Group." — San Diego Union, Oct. 16, 1981.-->

<!--*"The Dead and the Dying." — San Diego Newsline, Nov. 4–11, 1981.-->

<!--*"Maryknoll missionary sought to bring hope to El Salvador." — San Diego Newsline, Feb. 10–17, 1982.-->

<!--*"The Sandinistas Go Fishing." — H20 magazine, Winter, 1982.-->

<!--*"U.S. Considering Delivery of Specialized Aircraft to El Salvador Government." — The San Diego Union, Feb. 11, 1982.-->

<!--*"Grass Roots Center: Store for all Causes." — Los Angeles Times, March 16, 1982.-->

<!--*"Breaking Into TV with a Firm Grasp on Camera." — Los Angeles Times, April 6, 1982.-->

<!--*"Three Giants Who Were There — How they feel about the bomb now." — San Diego magazine, August. 1982.-->

<!--*"FBI Files: No Reds in this bed." — San Diego Newsline, Nov. 3, 1982.-->

<!--*"Most Hondurans Unmoved As Reagan's Visit Nears." — The San Diego Union, Dec. 3, 1982.-->

<!--*"Honduras Still A Haven For Nicaraguan Rebels." — The San Diego Union, December 26, 1982.-->

<!--*"San Diego Sailors Participate In Training of Salvador's Mini-Navy." — The San Deigo Union, Jan. 1983.-->

<!--*"Shooting the War the San Diego Way." — San Diego Newsline, Feb. 23-Mar. 2, 1983.-->

<!--*"A Reporter's View of U.S. Escalation in El Salvador." — Pacific News Service, March 1983.-->

<!--*"The Other Side of U.S. Aid in El Salvador — Pacific News Service, May, 1983..-->

<!--*"El Salvador: A retrospective." — San Diego Newsline, June 8, 1983.-->

<!--*"Slain Adviser proud of Salvador commandos." — Pacific News Service, June, 1983.-->

<!--*"Punchlines that punch back." — Mother Jones magazine, Nov. 1983.-->

<!--*"'Under Fire' — Only a partial war." — The San Diego Union, Nov. 13, 1983.-->

<!--*"'Under Fire' — The Way it really was." — In These Times, Nov. 9–15, 1983.-->

<!--*"Not for love, money or a case of Flor de Cana rum." — The San Francisco Bay Guardian, November 16, 1983.-->

<!--*"Raising Hell in Washington." — San Diego magazine, Dec. 1983.-->

<!--*"A batik blend of art, politics." — The San Diego Union, Dec. 12, 1983. [about batik artist Lisa Kokin]-->

<!--*"Whatever Kissinger Report outcome, escalation seems certain." — Pacific News Service, Jan. 1984.-->

<!--*"The Lethal Convair Cruise Missile." — San Diego magazine, Jan. 1984.-->

<!--*"Susan Meiselas - Courage behind lens." — The San Diego Union, Feb. 1, 1984.-->

<!--*"Ocean science research spawns $200 million local industry." — San Diego Business Journal, Feb. 6, 1984.-->

<!--*"Ocean mining technology may find use." — San Diego Business Journal, March 12, 1984.-->

<!--*"Camera Casts light on war." — In These Times, April 18–24, 1984.-->

<!--*"Robot subs do man's bidding under the sea." — San Diego Newsline, March 28, 1984.-->

<!--*"Honduras." — LA Weekly, March 9–15, 1984.-->

<!--*"Super Scientists." — San Diego magazine, April, 1984.-->

<!--*"'El Norte...A different world." — The San Diego Union, April 15, 1984.-->

<!--*"Alternative strategy takes root in change." — San Diego Business Journal, May 14, 1984.-->

<!--*"'Seeing Red' brings back memories." — The San Diego Union, May 17, 1984.-->

  • "San Diego and Central America." — San Diego Newsline, June 27, 1984.

<!--*"San Diego — A good place for two documentary filmmakers to work." - San Diego Business Journal, July 2, 1984.-->

<!--*"S.D. tied to hemisphere strife." — San Diego Tribune, Sept. 19, 1984.-->

<!--*"U.S., European artists look at politics." — The San Diego Union, Oct. 19, 1984.-->

<!--*"'Friends' offer look at other America." — The San Diego Union, Nov. 1984.-->

<!--*"Graphic examples of a genocide." — The San Diego Union, Dec. 1984.-->

<!--*"Golub's art isn't pretty but you sure do get the picture." — The San Diego Union, Dec. 16, 1984.-->

<!--*"John Hoagland 1947–1983." — San Diego Newsline, March 24, 1984.-->

<!--*"Humanity's Face." — Pacific News Service, March 1984.-->

  • "John Hoagland in life and Death." — San Diego Tribune, March 1984.

<!--*"The Final Frame — Newsweek Photographer John Hoagland's Last Interview." - Washington Journalism Review, May, 1984.-->

<!--*"Newsline's bottom line." — Columbia Journalism Review, July/Aug. 1984.-->

  • "Jonas Salk - A Conversation with the Old Master." — San Diego magazine, November 1984.

<!--*"Trouble seemed to find John Hoagland." — The San Diego Union, Feb. 5 1985.-->

<!--*"Cop World." — Mother Jones magazine, June, 1985.-->

<!--*"Marine Mammals Serving the Navy," — Pacific News Service, June, 1985.-->

<!--*"Two Faces of War." — San Francisco Bay Guardian, Nov. 13, 1985.-->

<!--*"Death and egotism in 'Salvador'" — San Francisco Bay Guardian, April 16, 1986.-->

<!--*"River Rats — On maneuvers with the Navy's low-tech solution". — San Francisco Examiner Image Magazine, August 24, 1986.-->

<!--*"Tragic Saga is filmed," — The San Diego Union, Sunday, Jan. 25, 1987.-->

<!--*"Photographer Builds a TV 'Atlantas" — San Francisco Chronicle Datebook, 1988-->

<!--*"Rebel with a Cause — The untold story of the wealthy San Franciscan who helped overthrow the Marcos Dictatorship — San Francisco Focus, July, 1988.-->

<!--*"Killing the Messengers." — San Francisco Bay Guardian, May 31, 1989.-->

<!--*"High on Music in the Andes." — SF Chronicle Datebook, Nov. 5, 1989.-->

<!--*"Whodunit?" — San Francisco Bay Guardian, Nov. 29, 1989.-->

<!--*"Australia's Great Barrier Reef." — San Francisco Bay Guardian, Feb. 7, 1990.-->

<!--*"Blowing Up Diablo Canyon." — California magazine, Oct. 1990.-->

<!--*"Ocean Sport #24: Whale Shark Riding." — Ocean Sports, Winter 1990.-->

<!--*"Down Under, Down Under." — Ocean Sports, Winter, 1990.-->

<!--*"High-Seas Piracy." — San Francisco Focus, March 1991.-->

<!--*"What's Up? Doc - Nancy Snyderman, M.D." — California magazine, 'Sept. 1991.-->

<!--*"Crime Labs Under the Microscope." — California Lawyer, December 1991.-->

<!--*"A Conversation with the Sturgeon General." — Dive Travel, Oct. 1992.-->

<!--*"Death of a Much-loved boat." — San Diego Reader, Nov. 5, 1992.-->

<!--*"Sideshows, Sages abound in Ann Arbor." — SEJ Journal, Winter 1993.-->

  • "Green War." — The Berkeley Monthly, August 1994.

<!--*"Hostile Environment." — In These Times, Oct. 17–30, 1994.-->

<!--*"Grassroots for Sale." — The Amicus Journal, Fall 1994.-->

<!--*"War Against the Greens." — Penthouse magazine, November, 1994. -->

<!--*"The War on Greens." — The Nation, Nov. 28, 1994.-->

<!--*"Journalists Battle Scenic Splendor." — SEJ Journal, Winter, 1994-95.-->

<!--*"Legal Assault on the Environment." — The Nation, Jan. 10 1995.-->

<!--*"Living in Perfect Harmony" — Dive Travel magazine, Winter, 1995.-->

<!--*"Institute for Competitive Plunder." — Sierra magazine, March/April 1995-->

<!--*"This Land Is My Land — Property Rights, not the earth, are what the new environmental activists want to save." — California Lawyer, April, 1995-->

<!--*"Messenger of Hope — 'The Life and Death of Petra Kelly." — LA Times Book Review, April 1995.-->

<!--*"Global Guardians — Richard and Rhoda Goldman.." — San Francisco Focus, April 1995.-->

<!--*"Property Rights and Militias — The Anti-Enviro Connection." — The Nation, May 22, 1995.-->

<!--*"Blue Frontiers — America's Marine Sanctuaries." — Audubon, June, 1995.-->

<!--*"Swimming with Sharks" — San Francisco Focus, Nov. 1995-->

<!--*"Red Herrings of the Wise Use Movement." — The Progressive, Nov. 1995.-->

<!--*"Congress Plans an American Clearcut." — The Nation, Dec. 4, 1995.-->

<!--*"In Boston: Can't Spoof it, eat it." — SEJ Journal, Winter 1995.-->

<!--*"Korean Activists Defend an Island." — Earth Island Journal, Winter 1995-96.-->

<!--*"Clash of the Titans." — San Francisco Focus magazine, April, 1996.-->

<!--*"Treasured Island." — San Francisco Focus magazine, April, 1996.-->

<!--*"How Green was my Rhetoric - Clinton seeks to dress up a track record of eco-duplicity in order to get re-elected." — In These Times, April 29–May 12, 1996.-->

<!--*"San Diego Dirty Tricks Redux," — Hotwired, May 31–June 3, 1996.-->

<!--*"Great White Comeback - Save the sharks? Done that. But with attacks on the rise the question is, who will save us?" — Men's Journal, June/July 1996.-->

<!--*"The Big Green Spin Machine — Corporations and Environmental PR." — The Amicus Journal, Summer 1996.-->

<!--*"Taking Advantage" — Hotwired, July 4–7, 1996.-->

<!--*"Forest Chump" — Hotwired, July 17, 1996.-->

<!--*"A Bad Memory — The '96 GOP convention echoes the '72 debacle that never was." — Boston Phoenix, July 26, 1996.-->

<!--*"An Environmental Platform." — In These Times, Sept. 2–15, 1996.-->

<!--*"Adam and the Trouble in Paradise." — Interview magazine, Sept. 1996.-->

<!--*"The Class of '96 — Don Young (R-AK)." — E Magazine, Sept./Oct. 1996-->

<!--*"Open Hostilities." — National Parks magazine, Sept./Oct. 1996.-->

<!--*"Perception is Reality." — E Magazine, Nov./Dec. 1996.-->

<!--*"The War Against the Greens" — Terrain magazine, Nov. 1996.-->

<!--*"Bombthrowers." — Terrain magazine, Dec. 1996.-->

<!--*"The Greenhouse Spin." — The Nation, Dec. 16, 1996.-->

<!--*"Top Ten Reasons to Believe the CIA When It Says It Never Sold Crack Cocaine to Support the Contras." — The Nation, Dec. 23, 1996.-->

<!--*"Top Ten Reasons Why Newt Gingrich Should Be Re-Elected Speaker." — The Nation, Jan. 27, 1997.-->

<!--*"Poison Pen — When Science Fails, Try Public Relations." — Sierra magazine, Feb. 1997.-->

<!--*"When Uncle Sam's 'Fish Cops' Reel in a Suspect, He's Usually a Keeper." — Smithsonian magazine, Feb. 1997.-->

<!--*"Dreamweavers — L.A.'s largest remaining wetland is at risk. So why aren't Hollywood liberals outraged?" — George magazine, March 1997.-->

<!--*"Adam Werbach — Sierra Club Slacker." — Terrain magazine, May 1997.-->

<!--*"Public Land Grazers." — Word online magazine, June 23–27, 1997.-->

<!--*"Rio's Pale Green Legacy." — The Nation, July 14, 1997.-->

<!--*"The Smog Pushers." — MojoWire, July 15–22, 1997.-->

<!--*"Wild Western Movements." — In These Times, July 18, 1997.-->

<!--*"Are Aliens feeding the greenhouse effect?" — SEJ Journal, Fall, 1997.-->

<!--*"A New Threat Requires New Action." — The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 8, 1997.-->

<!--*"Full Nets, Empty Seas." — The Progressive, November, 1997.-->

<!--*"Lessons from the Deep." — George, December, 1997.-->

<!--*"Industry's Hot Air." — MojoWire, Nov. 25-Dec. 1, 1997.-->

<!--*"Last Words." — Sierra magazine, Jan/Feb. 1998. -->

<!--*"Confessions of an Eco-Redneck, Review." — High Country News, Feb. 2, 1998.-->

<!--*"Camouflage Green." — The Progressive, March, 1998.-->

<!--*"Restoring the Everglades." — National Parks magazine, March/April, 1998.-->

<!--*"All the President's P.I.s." — MojoWire, March 24–30, 1998.-->

<!--*"Remembering Ita Ford." — Pacifica Network News radio, April 10, 1998.-->

<!--*"A Voice from the Grave." — The Progressive, June, 1998.-->

<!--*"Predator Friendly Products." — PRI Marketplace radio, May 21, 1998-->

<!--*"El Nino and Climate Change." — Pacifica Network News radio, June 1, 1998-->

<!--*"Alabama's Eco-Bulldogs." — Sports Afield, Sept. 1998-->

<!--*"Sixties Versus Eighties." — Pacifica Network News radio, Sept. 10, 1998-->

<!--*"California Versus DC." — PRI Marketplace radio, Sept. 16, 1998-->

<!--*"DNA Disasters?" — Sierra magazine, Sept./Oct. 1998-->

<!--*"Weathering El Nino." — American Forests magazine, Autumn 1998-->

<!--*"Green as a Hundred Grand." — Sports Afield, Oct. 1998-->

<!--*"Fowl Play in Washington." — Sports Afield, Oct. 1998-->

<!--*"Breathtaking." — PRI Marketplace radio, Oct. 9, 1998-->

<!--*"While the World Burns." — Penthouse, Nov. 1998-->

<!--*"Maine Hits the Rapids." — Sports Afield, Nov. 1998-->

<!--*"Reef Madness." — Audubon magazine, Nov.-Dec. 1998-->

<!--*"Meeting the Residents of Cozumel's Reef." — New York Times Travel, December 13, 1998-->

<!--*Antarctic Diary - Day 4, Jan. 8, 1999. — Slate online magazine-->

<!--*Antarctic Diary - Day 3, Jan. 7, 1999. — Slate online magazine-->

<!--*Antarctic Diary - Day 2, Jan. 6, 1999. — Slate online magazine -->

<!--*Antarctic Diary - Day 1, Jan. 5, 1999. — Slate online magazine -->

<!--*"One Stroke for Swordfish," — Sports Afield, Feb. 1999-->

<!--*"Wild Things - America's Top Ten Zoos." — Travel & Leisure Family, Spring/Summer 1999-->

  • "Fiddling While Antarctica Burns." — The New York Times, March 17, 1999 <!--Reprinted Anchorage Daily News, Sacramento Bee, Cleveland Plain Dealer, etc.-->

<!--*"A Day on the Water" — The Environment Show, March 20, 1999-->

<!--*"Telecommuting Heroes" — PRI Marketplace radio, April 14, 1999-->

<!--*"Report from Antarctica" — PRI Marketplace radio, April 27, 1999-->

<!--*"Hot stories on Antarctica's ice" — SEJ Journal, Spring 1999-->

<!--*"No easy road for Polish journalism" — SEJ Journal, Spring 1999-->

<!--*"Moose and Multinationals" — Wildzine.com, June, 1999-->

<!--*"A Day on Antarctica's water" — H20 magazine, Summer, 1999-->

<!--*"Elegant Scavengers" — E Magazine, Nov./Dec., 1999-->

<!--*"On Thin Ice" — Sierra magazine, Nov./Dec., 1999-->

<!--*"Climate Change in Antarctica" — Pacifica Network News Radio, Nov. 5, 1999-->

<!--*"This is Not a Polish Joke." — Grist magazine.com, Nov. 11, 1999-->

<!--*SEJ in LA - Gorgeous in Green - SEJ Journal, Fall, 1999-->

<!--*"Full Nets, Empty Seas." - H20 magazine, Winter 2000-->

<!--*"Deep Science Down on the Reef." —, Sports Afield, April, 2000.-->

<!--*"Mash On Ice." — Sports Afield, April, 2000-->

<!--*"Overfishing the Blue Frontier" — PRI Marketplace radio, April 11, 2000.-->

<!--*"Sinking feeling our fisheries." — The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 13, 2000.-->

<!--*"Reef Relief." — PRI Marketplace radio, June 15, 2000.-->

<!--*"Antarctica: The Ice is Moving." — E Magazine, Sept./Oct. 2000. -->

<!--*"Australia: The Reefs Are Going Down Under." — E Magazine, Sept./Oct. 2000 -->

<!--*"Fiji: The Heat's Not Just Political." — E Magazine, Sept./Oct. 2000-->

<!--*"Offshore Oil." — PRI Marketplace radio, Sept. 26, 2000.-->

<!--*"Risks Run Deep for Divers" — Consumer Health Interactive, Oct. 2000-->

<!--*"A Regular Zoo" — Consumer Health Interactive, Posted Oct. 2000-->

<!--*"Coral Blues In Aquarius Yellow" — H20 magazine, Fall, 2000-->

<!--*"Pollution Trading." — PRI Marketplace radio, Nov. 29, 2000-->

<!--*"Freaks, Uppity Women, and Politicos: An Ocean Beach Reunion" — San Diego Reader, December 7, 2000-->

<!--*"Gail Norton's Radical Legal Philosophy" — TomPaine.com, Jan. 17, 2001-->

<!--*"The Three Horsemen" — The Nation, Jan. 29, 2001-->

<!--*"Blue Frontier's Future," — NPR's Living on Earth, Feb., 2001-->

<!--*"Drilling in the Arctic," — PRI Marketplace radio, February 16, 2001-->

  • "Seaweed Rebellion" — Penthouse, March, 2001

<!--*"Panfried to Extinction" — Sierra magazine, March/April 2001-->

<!--*"The Last Fish" — TomPaine.com, March 6, 2001-->

<!--*"When is a Caribou an Albatross?" — Gristmagazine.com, March 9, 2001-->

<!--*"The Perfect Storm" — TomPaine.com, March 14, 2001-->

<!--*"Being Anti-Green is no Piece of Cake" — Los Angeles Times, March 19, 2001-->

<!--*"Flushing the Coasts" — TomPaine.com, March 20, 2001-->

<!--*"A Frontier Commission" — TomPaine.com, March 20, 2001-->

<!--*"Bush Unites the Enviros" — The Nation, May 7, 2001-->

<!--*"Bush's Energy Plan," — PRI Marketplace radio, May 16, 2001-->

<!--*"Mississippi Delta Blues" — Gristmagazine.com, May 25, 2001-->

<!--*"Bush's Ocean Commission" — Pacifica Network News, June 22, 2001 -->

<!--*"Bush Is No Reagan: He's a Harding" — AlterNet.org July 17, 2001-->

  • "On The Blue Frontier" — E Magazine, July/Aug. 2001

<!--*"Oil and Water" — Popular Science, August, 2001-->

<!--*"Sustainable Seafood" — PRI Marketplace radio, August 1, 2001-->

<!--*"Heavy Weather" — Blueridge press syndicate August 20, 2001-->

<!--*"Bush's Blue Ocean Commission looks pretty Brown" — Blueplanet, Fall 2001-->

<!--*"In Deep" — The IRE Journal, Nov./Dec. 2001-->

<!--*"Deep Blue Sea" — PRI Marketplace radio, Dec. 12, 2001-->

<!--*"Buy, Buy, Miss American Pie" — Gristmagazine.com, Dec. 14, 2001-->

<!--*"Bush's Other War" — The Nation, Feb. 11, 2002-->

<!--*"Undiscovered Country" — On Earth, Spring, 2002-->

<!--*"Bowties and Brainiacs at the AAAS Meeting" Science, April 5, 2002-->

<!--*"Profit and Loss" — Washington Post Book World, April 21, 2002-->

<!--*"Greenmail" — PRI Marketplace radio, June 12, 2002-->

<!--*"If By Sea" — Popular Science, Sept. 2002-->

<!--*"Wet and Wild" — Washington Post Book World, September 29, 2002-->

<!--*"Ripple Effect of Dockworker's Strike" — Los Angeles Times, October 8, 2002-->

<!--*"Ports and Trade," — PRI Marketplace radio, Oct. 9, 2002-->

<!--*"The Biggest Little Protest," — TomPaine.com Oct. 30, 2002-->

<!--*"There is No Silver Lining," — The Nation Dec. 9, 2002-->

<!--*"Something Fishy In Baltimore," — SEJ Journal, Winter 2002-->

<!--*"In California's Grand Canyon," — Faultline.org Dec. 11, 2002-->

<!--*"Oil and Water Don't Mix," — Gristmagazine.com Jan. 14, 2003-->

<!--*"The Last Fish," cover, — Earth Island Journal, Spring 2003-->

<!--A Dolphin's Plea, — Faultline.org, Feb. 2, 2003-->

<!--*"Oil's Domestic Impacts," — Multinational Monitor, Jan/Feb., 2003 -->

<!--*"Sustainable Life on the Blue Frontier," — International Geology Review, #12.-->

<!--*"A Dolphin Disses War," — AlterNet.org, April 10, 2003-->

<!--*"Ocean Commissions offer chance for salty reporting," — SEJ Journal, Spring 2003-->

<!--*"Building a Seaweed Citizens' Movement," Syndicated, Knight-Ridder, June 2003-->

<!--*"Unwise Use — Gale Norton's New Environmentalism" — cover story, The Progressive, June 2003-->

<!--*"Sustainable Seafood" — The Green Guide, July/Aug. 2003-->

<!--*"Oceans of Trouble" edited and wrote special issue, Multinational Monitor, September 2003-->

<!--*"In Harm's Way" — PRI Marketplace radio, Sept. 19, 2003-->

  • "Otter Things in California" — Satya, January 2004

<!--*"The Other Blue Votes" — TomPaine.com April 21, 2004-->

<!--*"George W. and the Fossil Fuel Posse" — Alternet.org June 28, 2004-->

<!--*"Storm Blockers" — TomPaine.com Sept. 16, 2004-->

<!--*"The Green Backlash" — Tidepool.org Oct. 28, 2004-->

<!--*"Exploiting the Environment" — TomPaine.com Oct. 29, 2004-->

<!--*"Wise Use in the White House" — Sierra magazine, Sept./Oct. 2004-->

<!--*"Bush's Environmental Policy" cover, Earth Island Journal, Winter 2005-->

<!--*"Wise Guys" — Gristmagazine.com Dec. 2004-->

<!--*"Come Helvarg and High Water" — Gristmagazine, Jan. 3, 2005-->

<!--*"Spawning a Blue Movement" — Sea Technology, Jan. 2005-->

  • "SpongeBob and Friends: Splendor in the Kelp" — Los Angeles Times, January 26, 2005

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