Expectations High for First Global Blue Economy Conference

Jay OwenSustainability News, Earth Systems Science

“Ethical Markets welcomes this wider interest in the planet’s 97% saltwater and as we report in our Green Transition Scoreboard 2018:

“Capturing CO2 While Improving Human Nutrition & Heath“ we should be using more of Earth’s salt-loving plants that thrive on degraded and desert lands without pesticides or fertilizers and are still grown in 22 countries by local peoples.  Ocean agriculture of kelp crops can also help stabilize our global food supply, which is teetering on the planet’s 3% of freshwater and cannot continue to supply growing populations.  Free download at www.ethicalmarkets.com  along with our TV show playing there: “Investing in Saltwater Agriculture” with NASA Chief Scientist Dennis Bushnell.

~Hazel  Henderson, Editor”

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