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Guest blogger: Margo Pellegrino's message in a bottle for healthy oceans--Day 17

July 17, 2008

Posted by Melissa Waage in Reviving the World's Oceans

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messageinabottle, oceangovernance, simplesteps

After more than two weeks on the water, Margo Pellegrino arrived in Washington, DC, concluding her 500 mile paddle in support of healthy oceans legislation.  Margo's Blog: July 16 My last day on the Potomac was a thirty mile paddle on...

Guest blogger: Margo Pellegrino's message in a bottle for healthy oceans--Day 16

July 16, 2008

Posted by Melissa Waage in Reviving the World's Oceans

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messageinabottle, oceangovernance, simplesteps

Tomorrow, Margo Pellegrino arrives in Washington, DC and concludes her 500 mile paddle in support of healthy oceans legislation.Margo's Blog: July 15 Today's paddle from Patricia and George's home on a little creek off of Potoma Creek to the Occoquan area...

Guest blogger: Margo Pellegrino's message in a bottle for healthy oceans--Day 15

July 14, 2008

Posted by Melissa Waage in Reviving the World's Oceans

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messageinabottle, oceangovernance, simplesteps

Margo Pellegrino is headed up the Potomac River to Washington, DC as part of her 500 mile paddle in support of healthy oceans legislation.Margo's Blog: July 14 What an awesome first couple of days on the Potomac. I left a...

Guest blogger: Margo Pellegrino's message in a bottle for healthy oceans--Day 11

July 11, 2008

Posted by Melissa Waage in Reviving the World's Oceans

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messageinabottle, oceangovernance, simplesteps

Margo Pellegrino is paddling her canoe 500 miles from New Jersey to Washington, DC in support of healthy oceans legislation.  She's now a few days away from Washington, in Solomons, Maryland.Margo's Blog: July 10 Whew. What a day. The paddle...

Guest blogger: Margo Pellegrino's message in a bottle for healthy oceans--Day 10

July 10, 2008

Posted by Melissa Waage in Reviving the World's Oceans

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messageinabottle, oceangovernance, simplesteps

Margo Pellegrino is mid-way through her 500 mile paddle to Washington in support of healthy oceans legislation.Margo's Blog: July 9 Right now I'm enjoying being warm and dry, as opposed to cold in wet, which I always am when I come...

Guest blogger: Margo Pellegrino's message in a bottle for healthy oceans--Day 7

July 7, 2008

Posted by Melissa Waage in Reviving the World's Oceans

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messageinabottle, oceangovernance, simplesteps

NRDC is partnering with Margo Pellegrino as she paddles 500 miles from New Jersey to Washington, DC, in support of a new ocean protection bill, Oceans 21 (H.R. 21). On Day 7 Margo  pulls in to Baltimore's Inner Harbor, having...

Guest blogger: Margo Pellegrino's message in a bottle for healthy oceans--Day 6

July 5, 2008

Posted by Melissa Waage in Reviving the World's Oceans

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messageinabottle, oceangovernance, simplesteps

NRDC is partnering with Margo Pellegrino as she paddles 500 miles from New Jersey to Washington, DC, in support of a new ocean protection bill, Oceans 21 (H.R. 21). On Day 6 Margo paddles past Philadelphia on the Delaware River....

Guest blogger: Margo Pellegrino's message in a bottle for healthy oceans--Day 5

July 4, 2008

Posted by Melissa Waage in Reviving the World's Oceans

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messageinabottle, oceangovernance, simplesteps

 Margo Pellegrino is on a 500-mile journey from New Jersey to Washington, DC in support of Oceans 21, a Healthy Oceans Act to save our seas.  On Thursday, she paddled the Delaware and Raritan Canal in New Jersey, managing a...

Guest blogger: Margo Pellegrino's message in a bottle for healthy oceans--Day 4

July 3, 2008

Posted by Melissa Waage in Reviving the World's Oceans

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messageinabottle, oceangovernance, simplesteps

Margo Pellegrino is four days into her 500-mile journey from New Jersey to Washington, DC in support of Oceans 21, a Healthy Oceans Act to save our seas.  On Wednesday, she set out from Atlantic Highlands, NJ, and down the...

Guest blogger: Margo Pellegrino's message in a bottle for healthy oceans--Day 2

July 1, 2008

Posted by Melissa Waage in Reviving the World's Oceans

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messageinabottle, oceangovernance, simplesteps

Margo Pellegrino set out today from Little Egg Harbor in Beach Haven, NJ, on her 500-mile journey in support of Oceans 21.  See footage of the launch on NBC 40 (click "video included" button) and at the Asbury Park Press....

Guest blogger: Margo Pellegrino's message in a bottle for healthy oceans--Day 1

June 30, 2008

Posted by Melissa Waage in Reviving the World's Oceans

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messageinabottle, oceangovernance, oceans, simplesteps

Last summer, Margo Pellegrino, a New Jersey mother of two, paddled from Miami to Maine in an outrigger canoe to  celebrate our oceans and bring attention inspire her children and others to take an active role in the stewardship of...

C is for...Could be doing more for oceans

March 31, 2008

Posted by Melissa Waage in Reviving the World's Oceans

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jointoceanscommission, NOAA, oceangovernance

The good news: America’s oceans policy score improved this year!  The bad news: from a C- to a C.  The Seattle Post-Intelligencer recently highlighted these poor marks from the Joint Oceans Commission Initiative.   Our C grade means that U.S. policy...

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Melissa Waage
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