Bluesday

We've all heard about going green, but (in my humble opinion) I think the environmental movement is the wrong color. Our lives - and the 'green' parts of earth where we live - depend on the ocean. The great blue ocean deserves our highest protection and respect. Our push to make choices that are better for the environment should be a blue movement focused on caring for the ocean - what we put into it, and what we take out of it.

Allow me to introduce Bluesday.

Bluesday on my blog is the first Tuesday of each month. On Bluesday, I will post a tip about How To Be Blue. Why only one tip per month? I want to keep it simple, make it easy to remember and possible to do. Experts say it takes thirty days to create a habit, so I'm allowing thirty days for each tip to become your new habit.

Look for the first tip on Bluesday, March 2, 2010.

My inspiration for Bluesday comes from my lifelong fascination with the ocean and marine biology. I am also inspired by Sylvia Earle, a pioneering oceanographer and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence. Sylvia Earle has been at the frontier of deep ocean exploration for four decades. She has led more than 50 undersea expeditions and has been an equally tireless advocate for the ocean and the creatures who live in it.

Sylvia was one of three winners of the 2009 TED Prize for her wish to protect the ocean:

“I wish you would use all means at your disposal — films! expeditions! the web! more! — to ignite public support for a global network of marine protected areas, hope spots large enough to save and restore the ocean, the blue heart of the planet.”

Sylvia appeared on The Colbert Report to discuss her new book The World is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean’s Are One. To watch Stephen Colbert's funny and informative chat with Sylvia Earle, click here

May you turn a deeper shade of blue with each passing month!