David Helvarg
David Helvarg, war correspondent and private investigator turned ocean advocate, is the founder and Executive Director of Blue Frontier, an ocean conservation and policy group. He is the award-winning author of six books, including The War Against the Greens, 50 Ways to Save the Ocean, Rescue Warriors, Saved by the Sea, The Golden Shore and Blue Frontier which Bill McKibben calls "the most comprehensive account available of the state of our nation's oceans, and the best reporting on how they got that way."
Blue Frontier supports and amplifies the voices of people working to restore the blue in our red, white and blue through solution-oriented efforts at the local, national and global level.
Helvarg worked as a war correspondent in Northern Ireland and Central America, covered a range of issues from military science to the AIDS epidemic, and reported from every continent including Antarctica. As a journalist, he produced more than 40 broadcast documentaries for PBS, The Discovery Channel, and others. His print work has appeared in The New York Times, LA Times, Smithsonian, National Geographic, Popular Science, etc. He's done radio work for Marketplace, AP and Pacifica and led workshops for journalists in Poland, Turkey, Tunisia, Slovakia and Washington DC. He is also a licensed Private Investigator, body-surfer and scuba diver.
David Helvarg speaks about the wonder and warning of our Ocean planet, how we're all connected to saltwater and what we can do each day to improve both our blue marble planet and our lives.
David Helvarg, war correspondent and private investigator turned ocean advocate, is the founder and Executive Director of Blue Frontier, an ocean conservation and policy group. He is the award-winning author of six books, including The War Against the Greens, 50 Ways to Save the Ocean, Rescue Warriors, Saved by the Sea, The Golden Shore and Blue Frontier which Bill McKibben calls "the most comprehensive account available of the state of our nation's oceans, and the best reporting on how they got that way."
Blue Frontier supports and amplifies the voices of people working to restore the blue in our red, white and blue through solution-oriented efforts at the local, national and global level.
Helvarg worked as a war correspondent in Northern Ireland and Central America, covered a range of issues from military science to the AIDS epidemic, and reported from every continent including Antarctica. As a journalist, he produced more than 40 broadcast documentaries for PBS, The Discovery Channel, and others. His print work has appeared in The New York Times, LA Times, Smithsonian, National Geographic, Popular Science, etc. He's done radio work for Marketplace, AP and Pacifica and led workshops for journalists in Poland, Turkey, Tunisia, Slovakia and Washington DC. He is also a licensed Private Investigator, body-surfer and scuba diver.
David Helvarg speaks about the wonder and warning of our Ocean planet, how we're all connected to saltwater and what we can do each day to improve both our blue marble planet and our lives.
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