Ocean Policy, Lobbying & Community Activism | Stefanie Sekich-Quinn #surfrider #sustainability
Channel: Seek Sustainable Japan | JJWalsh
Date: 2022-09-09

00:00 Welcome Stefanie Sekich-Quinn
00:43 Passion started in childhood
02:30 Save the Trestles Campaign
06:50 OKTie Wooden Glasses on Etsy
07:30 Policy & Implementation
11:00 State by State Report Card
15:30 Collecting Data 
18:00 Public access to beaches
19:20 Outdated thinking
21:20 Real Estate Value & Risk
23:00 Hawaii's Vulnerability Assessment
25:50 Ocean Based Climate Solutions Act
28:00 Biden Administration Progress
29:00 Coastal Tourism Economics
32:00 Plastic Pollution 5-Gyers
34:00 Plastic emissions & lifecycle
36:40 How do you prioritize projects to focus on?
39:00 Need 30% Marine Protected Areas (MPA's)
40:50 West Coast MPA's
41:40 How to get stakeholders to agree?
45:00 Spillover positive effect of MPA's
46:00 Empowering people to make a change
47:00 Japan Surfrider & Surf Culture
50:00 Community Scientists & Data Collecting
51:20 Counting Beach Plastics for Databases
52:40 Any priorities for worldwide change?
53:20 Managed retreat for coastal properties
54:55 Switch to 100% Renewables by 2030
56:30 Personal action: investing in solar & plantbased
57:20 What can you do for meaningful change in your life?
58:30 Ocean-friendly gardens, businesses
1:00:00 Surfrider around the world
1:01:00 Please come to Japan!

Stefanie Sekich-Quinn of Surfrider Foundation is the Sr. Manager Coast and Climate Initiative talks about the Surfrider Foundation mission and projects, but also her personal sustainable challenges and ability to rally diverse members of a community to join a protest to protect coastal areas from development like she has been doing for the last 20 years at the 'Save the Trestles' campaign in California. https://www.surfrider.org/coastal-blog/entry/15-years-thousands-of-activists-one-goal-save-trestles-forever

LINKS
* Bio for Stefanie Sekich-Quinn is on Surfrider website: 
https://www.surfrider.org/our-team/staff/stefanie-sekich-quinn
* Plastic Pollution Initiatives at Surfrider: https://www.surfrider.org/initiatives/plastic-pollution
* Surfrider Japan (Japanese) https://www.surfrider.jp/
* Ingo Gunther - ReNature Japan's Coastal Armor picture - an art project to add nature to the concrete walls along Japan's coastlines: https://ingogunther.com/#/renature/
* The 5-Gyers org: https://www.5gyres.org/
* OKTIE wooden glasses made by a talented craftsperson from the Ukraine on ETSY: https://www.etsy.com/shop/OKTIEofficial?section_id=22388944

Related Interviews on Seek Sustainable Japan about our Oceans
* Interview with Ian Urbina journalist covering the untold stories of human and environmental misery on our oceans around the world with his book and organization, the Outlaw Ocean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEzagu6Y1As
* Marine researcher based in Japan Marieke Dornhege talks ocean plastics and her research along Japan's coastlines https://youtu.be/tH2Ar1YqACw
* Educator, business owner and beach-clean up organizer based in Fujisawa near Tokyo, Alana Bonzi talks about her classes, programs and organizing beach clean up activities in collaboration with Japanese businesses: https://youtu.be/81jlzgkU8FI

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