http://www.miami2maine.com Copyright 2009 SailBlogs.com Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:05:11 -0500 720 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:05:11 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss en support@sailblogs.com support@sailblogs.com http://www.sailblogs.com/images/sb_rss_icon.gif http://www.sailblogs.com/ 88 31 Weblogs for Sailors and Sailing http://www.miami2maine.com?xjMsgID=87458 On April 15, 2009, I departed from the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute in Ft. Pierce, Florida to head south around the Florida peninsula on my way to New Orleans, where I expect to finish in late May. The Gulf coast paddle is my third major outrigger canoe trip to Save Our Seas (S.O.S.), this time covering more than 1,000 miles of the Gulf coast to spread the word about the urgent threats facing our oceans and the need for federal action to revive them. In partnership with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the Gulf Restoration Network (GRN), I am paddling the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of Florida to spread my message of hope and a call to action.  (Continued...) Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:01:42 -0500 http://www.miami2maine.com?xjMsgID=87458 http://www.miami2maine.com?xjMsgID=67193 ...because it makes it easier to ride your bike, especially when you're hauling a cart loaded down w/ either children or groceries or both. Today it was groceries. My friend and fellow environmentally concerned citizen, Sue Mattio, invited Julia over to play with her little niece, only three weeks Julia's elder. So with Billy in school and Julia at Sue's, I found myself childless. And needing groceries--of the organic variety. So off to Whole Foods I peddled. I'd been contemplating trying that little run from here to there for awhile now, but never had the opportunity to do it. And it is pretty little, only ten miles one way, but on very heavily traveled roads. Traffic provides the excitement the terrain doesn't, that's for sure. Oh well, when you live in the suburban wilds of South Jersey, you have to do what you can for a little excitement fun. (Continued...) Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:09:08 -0500 http://www.miami2maine.com?xjMsgID=67193 http://www.miami2maine.com?xjMsgID=66659 Now that Shore11.org is officially launched, here's my official first blog! Things green are happening all over, as more and more people realize that the security of our future generations depends on conserving our natural resources and managing them in a sustainable manner, especially our ocean resources. The desire to avert certain ocean-destruction manifests itself in some interesting personal challenges of late.  (Continued...) Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:58:50 -0500 http://www.miami2maine.com?xjMsgID=66659 http://www.miami2maine.com?xjMsgID=61286  (Continued...) Margo Pellegrino Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:52:42 -0500 http://www.miami2maine.com?xjMsgID=61286 http://www.miami2maine.com?xjMsgID=61285 It's warm and steamy here in Medford Lakes, NJ. My kids, Billy and Julia, are happily soaking each other with their water squirters in the lake while I sit here and type. We're lucky to live on a lake that's swimmable and clean. In so many areas of the world, kids have no access to clean water. Fortunately, leaders in the past have made conservation a priority, as that is the key to a secure future. We need to manage our resources so we can count on them being there for our future generations. As Teddy Roosevelt said over one hundred years ago in his address at the Deep Waterway Convention in Memphis, Tennessee, "The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others." He understood the intrinsic connection of conserving our natural resources to our future well-being as a country. It's as simple as "money in the bank." (Continued...) Margo Pellegrino Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:28:24 -0500 http://www.miami2maine.com?xjMsgID=61285