Welcome to Blue Technology
Oceans cover 71 percent of Earth’s surface and accounts for more than 95 percent of its life-supporting space. Because the different oceans merge into one another, forming the largest habitat on earth, our sustainability depends upon the care we give this “cradle of life.”
The three major oceans of the world are the Pacific, the Atlantic and the Indian Ocean. The Arctic Ocean surrounds the North Pole while the Southern Ocean (really the southern portion of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans) surrounds the continent of Antarctica. Not only do these oceans contribute 70 percent of our oxygen but they also remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
What is Blue Technology? Why, the same thing as Green Technology, only instead of concentrating of forces that protect the green environment — Earth’s landforms and the organisms that live on them — we feel it is critical to focus on protecting the water. Without it, Green does not exist.
This site does not sell anything, but promotes goodwill and conservation of our planet. We are most interested in technology and actions that improve and do not endanger the oceans. Water of all kind is of importance in our readings and research, from streams to creeks to rivers, from puddles to ponds to lakes. They all flow into the bays and estuaries and gulfs that feed our oceans. We will explore topics that are critical to the Earth’s survival as well as:
- Species
- Habitats
- Conservation
- Volunteering
- Emerging Blue Technology
- Marine Industry Advances
Why Should We Care?
Rachel Carson explains it best in “The Sea Around Us”
“… the sea lies all about us. The commerce of all lands must cross it. The very winds that move over the lands have been cradled on its broad expanse and seek ever to return to it. The continents themselves dissolve and pass to the sea, in grain after grain of eroded land. So the rains that rose from it return again in rivers. In its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life and receives in the end, after, it may be, many transmutations, the dead husks of that same life. For all at last return to the sea — to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.”
