CBE in the Media

In the News: The Warming Ocean is Leaving Coastal Economies in Hot Water

Charles Colgan — 2024-06-14T11:19:11-0700

Scientists estimate that more than 90% of the excess heat produced by human activities has been taken up by the ocean. That’s having a big impact on coastal economies, as researcher Charles Colgan breaks down in an explainer piece in The Conversation.

Paying a premium: The challenge of insurance in a climate-altered world

Marina Schauffler — 2023-08-07T17:14:02-0700

Maine needs to better prepare for climate’s destabilizing effects on the property insurance industry. Dr. Charles Colgan, Director of the Center for the Blue Economy and long time Maine resident weighs in on the issue.

How We Put the Blue in the Green New Deal

Jason Scorse and David Helvarg — 2023-07-17T15:31:32-0700

Research by the Center for the Blue Economy and others helped lay groundwork for the Biden administration’s approach to climate, write CBE director Jason Scorse and colleague David Helvarg in Common Dreams.

Get Ready for the Post-Legislative Phase of the Climate Battle

Jason Scorse & David Helvarge in the Progressive — 2022-10-26T16:31:55-0700

Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act came decades too late to stop climate change impacts this century. What now? Article by Center for the Blue Economy Director Jason Scorse, and partner organization Blue Frontier Director David Helvarg.

Explainer: What is the blue economy?

Emma Bryce in China Dialogue-Ocean — 2022-09-06T11:14:18-0700

Dr. Jason Scorse, Director of the Center for the Blue Economy at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, is quoted in this article. He emphasizes that the blue economy as a concept must adopt a sustainability-focus by definition, rather than being co-opted into the historical extract-consume-discard model.

Want to fight Russian aggression in Ukraine and beyond? Decarbonize

Jason Scorse; David Helvarg — 2022-03-02T12:14:40-0800

Center for the Blue Economy Director Jason Scorse and partner organization Blue Frontier’s Director David Helvarg wrote this timely and impacting piece in the San Francisco Chronicle. “Rapidly transitioning the U.S. and global economies to renewable energy would not only weaken our foes, it will also save millions of lives while strengthening our national security and protecting our common future,” the authors write.

CBE Waves Newsletter January 2022

Rachel Christopherson — 2022-01-26T10:00:00-0800

Stories include: The Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary Needs Your Support; The Journal of Ocean and Coastal Economics, Volume 8, Issue 2, published; The Middlebury Climate Change Semester: Inaugural Program Begins; The Ocean Needs Our Help-Now.

The ocean needs our help — now

Jason Scorse; David Helvarg — 2022-01-11T00:22:47-0800

In a recent piece in MSN News, Jason Scorse, Director of the Blue Economy and David Helvarg, Executive Director of Blue Frontier, lay out that our public seas must play a central role in national climate policy, and we have no time to waste.

We can save our coasts with a $10 billion investment

David Helvarg & Daniel Hayden in the Hill — 2021-08-20T09:42:23-0700

Ten billion dollars in funding to restore beach dunes and dune grass, salt marshes and estuaries, oyster and coral reefs may seem unrelated to the rebuilding of America’s crumbling roads, bridges and sewer plants. But restoring and expanding natural coastal barriers — or living infrastructure — is actually a practical cost-effective way of reducing the growing impacts of sea-level rise, intensified storms and “sunny-day flooding” associated with the rapidly worsening climate emergency. And those impacts will be devastating to the U.S. economy if we don’t act now. While vulnerable coastal counties comprise less than 10 percent of the nation’s landmass, they generate 46 percent of its GDP.

Predicting When the Next Bluff Will Fall

Ramin Skibba, Hakai Magazine — 2021-07-12T10:39:54-0700

Researchers in Southern California are using lidar to improve scientists’ understanding of the erosional forces that cause bluffs to collapse. Dr. Charles Colgan, Director of Research at the Center for the Blue Economy, weighs in with research findings from a 2018 CBE study.