1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:03,080 Hello to everyone out there listening, This is Ross Kenyon. 2 00:00:03,080 --> 00:00:05,080 I am the host of Reversing Climate Change. 3 00:00:05,520 --> 00:00:07,640 I want to tell you about two events coming up in the month of 4 00:00:07,640 --> 00:00:10,800 October and a little bit of November too, that I'll be at 5 00:00:11,040 --> 00:00:12,920 that You should be at 2:00 if you can. 6 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:16,520 One of them is in Seattle and one of them is in the open 7 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:19,240 ocean, and that is intentionally provocative. 8 00:00:19,640 --> 00:00:23,000 Please continue listening. I recently started a role as an 9 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:26,000 Executive in residence at Maritime Blue, which is a 10 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:28,960 fascinating strategic alliance dedicated to accelerating 11 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:33,480 innovation in the blue economy. I'm working essentially to help 12 00:00:33,480 --> 00:00:37,240 commercialize ocean tech companies, one of the many 13 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:39,840 things that I'm filling my time with right now, and I'm very 14 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:42,680 excited to begin working more deeply with them moving forward. 15 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:46,000 They've actually have two amazing events coming up really 16 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:49,960 soon. One is 1 Ocean Week 2025 in 17 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:52,720 Seattle, October 20th through 26th. 18 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:56,440 If you're listening to this show, presumably you care about 19 00:00:56,440 --> 00:00:59,000 a healthy ocean. You care about its ability to 20 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:02,880 sustain life. Maritime Blue is gathering all 21 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:06,000 of the innovators, researchers, startups, policymakers, artists, 22 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:09,320 educators, and communities to accelerate solutions for 23 00:01:09,320 --> 00:01:11,400 sustainable, inclusive maritime future. 24 00:01:11,760 --> 00:01:13,680 We need the ocean. We need it healthy. 25 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:16,560 I think that's pretty well beyond dispute and this is a 26 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:17,880 great event. If you're going to be in 27 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:21,040 Seattle, I'll be at a number of the events here and hope to see 28 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:23,680 you there. And then additionally, the thing 29 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:27,200 that I teased you with so, so cruelly is the one Ocean 30 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:30,600 expedition. There is a three masted sailing 31 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:35,040 bark called the Stotzrad Lemkuhl that is sailing around the world 32 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:38,240 right now to raise awareness about ocean health. 33 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:41,960 It's essentially A diplomatic mission to the world, telling 34 00:01:41,960 --> 00:01:45,320 the world that we need to be caring about the oceans to a 35 00:01:45,320 --> 00:01:46,880 much greater extent than we are now. 36 00:01:47,440 --> 00:01:50,600 A big part of this mission is actually having people come sail 37 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:54,240 on the ship. Sailing any kind of ocean 38 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:56,560 passage at this point is not a common experience. 39 00:01:56,880 --> 00:01:59,440 We mostly just fly over the ocean at this point. 40 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:02,760 If you do interact with it, it's probably pretty close to shore. 41 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:05,000 It's just a different kind of experience. 42 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:08,520 I think getting people out there on the ocean and having a 43 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:11,680 tactile experience can be really powerful way of connecting them 44 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:14,680 and showing them that we need to take better care of the ocean. 45 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:17,560 So I think this is just a great opportunity and a really smart 46 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:20,240 initiative. I'm happy that it exists. 47 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:23,840 Right after One Ocean Week in Seattle, the One Ocean 48 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:28,480 Expedition is occurring. Maritime Blue put together this 49 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:32,120 Seattle to San Francisco leg on the sailing expedition. 50 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:38,000 So you'll be able to see the ship during One Ocean Week and 51 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:43,280 then if you would like to, you can buy passage on this ship, 52 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:45,480 become a working member of the ship. 53 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:49,560 And for a week we will be sailing from Seattle to San 54 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:52,360 Francisco. And I am a podcaster in 55 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:54,120 residence. Not to drop too many in 56 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:57,040 residence titles at you this episode, but I'm going to be on 57 00:02:57,040 --> 00:02:58,840 the ship. I'm either going to be 58 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:01,520 interviewing people there or taking notes to do a monologue 59 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:04,040 show when I'm off and just trying to process this 60 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:06,520 experience because I love sailing literature. 61 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:09,120 I've read enormous quantities of it. 62 00:03:09,520 --> 00:03:12,000 I've even had the great privilege of interviewing the 63 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:15,360 legendary John Kretchmer. He's written some of the best 64 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:17,600 sailing books. One of those shows that I was 65 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:20,360 sort of amazed I was able to get him on to do. 66 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:24,280 But I've never done it myself. All the sailing I've done has 67 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:26,720 been littoral close to the shore. 68 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:29,960 It hasn't been deep water passage. 69 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:32,480 No, no blue water sailing for me. 70 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:35,480 And I've really been curious, like, would I actually like this 71 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:37,480 or not? Is it gonna scare the crap out 72 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:40,080 of me being so far away from? Sure. 73 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:42,800 Those waves certainly do look big. 74 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:45,560 The North Pacific off the coast, I think get some pretty big 75 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:47,560 waves. So I don't know. 76 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:50,320 I'm, I'm curious about testing myself and learning about this. 77 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:55,840 And I also just have a great deal of affection for things 78 00:03:55,840 --> 00:03:58,280 that are not as convenient as we've come to expect. 79 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:03,440 I think in 2025, we basically expect everything to be streamed 80 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:05,440 to us to be immediately accessible. 81 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:09,360 If it's not, we're really upset. You can order basically any 82 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:11,720 product in the world. It'll be at your house soon. 83 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:16,480 But I grew up primarily in the 90s and my recollection of 84 00:04:16,519 --> 00:04:20,160 getting into basically anything back then was that if you wanted 85 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:25,280 to explore a hobby, you had to like look up what kind of hobby 86 00:04:25,280 --> 00:04:29,080 that was in the Yellow Pages or in an earlier crappier version 87 00:04:29,080 --> 00:04:32,480 of the Internet. And you would find out that 40 88 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:36,920 minutes from your home, there would be a strip mall run by 1 89 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:41,240 old man who was an expert on remote controlled aircraft. 90 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:45,720 And you would have to convince your parents on their day off to 91 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:50,760 take you to this weird place to learn about some expensive thing 92 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:52,120 that they don't actually want to let you do. 93 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:57,320 Is it, is this a universal experience or is this just, this 94 00:04:57,320 --> 00:04:59,880 might just be me who experienced this, but OK, here's a more 95 00:04:59,880 --> 00:05:02,320 relatable version of that. I like going to Blockbuster. 96 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:05,920 I remember at the ritual of trying to get there early enough 97 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:09,360 on a Friday that the game that you wanted or the movie that you 98 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:12,480 wanted would still be there. And then sometimes you would get 99 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:14,480 there and Spaceballs would be gone. 100 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:17,520 He'd be like, oh man, someone beat us to it. 101 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:20,800 Or you would want to get the the video game that had just come 102 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:24,760 out that you didn't want to pay $60 to buy and the Sega Genesis 103 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:28,360 cartridge would already be gone. And now you could just play 104 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:30,440 basically any game that's ever been made, even though they're 105 00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:32,280 just released. It'll download and not that much 106 00:05:32,280 --> 00:05:34,840 time to your device and you have it there. 107 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:37,400 And I don't know that we've always been made better for 108 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:42,080 things being amazingly more accessible and immediate. 109 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:45,920 I, I sort of liked the inconveniences. 110 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:47,360 They didn't feel that fun at the time. 111 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:49,800 It's only in hindsight. And so maybe I'm falling into my 112 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:52,800 own nestled trap that I've criticized as recently as a few 113 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:57,120 weeks ago on the podcast. But I like that about sailing. 114 00:05:58,280 --> 00:06:00,600 I like that in the idea of sailing because I actually 115 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:02,080 haven't done very much of it, as I've noted. 116 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:04,840 But I also connected to something like bike touring. 117 00:06:04,840 --> 00:06:07,000 I'm going to do a show on bike touring soon because I've done 118 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:11,560 several bike tours and I love them. 119 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:14,560 I think there are wonderful ways to travel for so many reasons. 120 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:17,240 I think it intersects with climate and ways beyond the 121 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:19,640 obvious low emission transport angle. 122 00:06:19,640 --> 00:06:23,560 I think that's pretty obvious, but one thing that I like that 123 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:29,160 connects sailing and cycling is that you have to be aware of 124 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:33,200 your surroundings in a much more observational way than you are 125 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:34,960 when you're just driving. When you're in some sort of 126 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:39,840 enclosed capsule on a road that's often pretty straight and 127 00:06:39,840 --> 00:06:45,400 your job is just to stay in your lane, enjoy the audio book that 128 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:47,720 you're listening to and stay in your lane. 129 00:06:48,280 --> 00:06:49,880 Of course, there's lots of danger things that you need to 130 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:53,920 pay attention to, but I also find that biking is moving at 131 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:56,040 just the right speed. That allows you to cover a lot 132 00:06:56,040 --> 00:06:58,960 of ground, but you're still paying quite a lot of attention 133 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:02,160 to where you are, and you have to be much more aware of things 134 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:05,960 like the weather and traffic and how things feel. 135 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:07,600 We're in a car. You're pretty isolated. 136 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:10,560 From what I understand about sailing. 137 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:13,280 It's a lot like that too. I think one of the issues that 138 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:17,280 humanity, especially humans in the Global N, have been feeling 139 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:20,560 and dealing with is that they're disconnected from their bodies. 140 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:21,960 They're disconnected from their feelings. 141 00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:25,160 And moving in this way I think is a great reminder of how 142 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:27,680 disconnected we are from actual experience. 143 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:30,800 We intellectualize, but we don't feel. 144 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:34,920 When we do feel, that's just a distraction from the podcast 145 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:38,400 we'd rather be listening to Again, is this me or is this 146 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:39,720 everyone? It might just be me. 147 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:43,000 I think one thing that's humanizing about this is being 148 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:46,120 able to say I'm also working on this, and this is one of the 149 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:49,880 reasons why I'm so excited to be going on the 1 Ocean Expedition 150 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:51,400 on the Seattle to San Francisco leg. 151 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:54,200 So I'm trying to find more opportunities to fine tune these 152 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:56,920 skills and to become more aware of my environment and just be a 153 00:07:56,920 --> 00:08:01,160 more present, happier, observational person. 154 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:05,160 And I think things like this are a good way to do that. 155 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:08,720 Moreover, it's a highly cinematic way to do that. 156 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:15,040 How often do you get to make an offshore passage on 111 year old 157 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:16,880 sailing vessel? Not often. 158 00:08:17,120 --> 00:08:20,400 I've actually never been offered this before so I'm really 159 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:23,480 looking forward to it. You can join too if you'd like 160 00:08:23,480 --> 00:08:24,720 to come along. You can. 161 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:28,120 There's a link in the show notes that has pricing information and 162 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:31,080 dates and has everything that you would want to know about how 163 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:33,120 to actually do this. If you've been looking for a 164 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:37,640 chance to get some sailing experience, this seems like a 165 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:41,320 really fun way to do so. Or at least I've judged it by my 166 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:43,880 lights to be that. I'm really looking forward to 167 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:45,680 it. If you'd like to sail on the 168 00:08:45,680 --> 00:08:51,400 stats rod Lemcool, you want to hang out with me on an old 169 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:54,960 wooden sailing vessel? The link is in the show notes. 170 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:56,880 Come check it out. I hope you will. 171 00:08:56,880 --> 00:08:59,520 If nothing else, if you're in the area very much want to see 172 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:04,960 you at 1 Ocean Week 2025. Come say hello and let's hang 173 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:08,680 out and let's just drive the brain power that we can into 174 00:09:08,680 --> 00:09:13,080 making the ocean a regenerative economy. 175 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:15,680 Thanks for listening. I hope to see you out there.