{"id":383283,"date":"2010-03-02T20:39:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T01:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-03-02-a-rich-guys-guide-to-saving-the-oceans\/"},"modified":"2010-03-02T20:39:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T01:39:07","slug":"a-rich-guys-guide-to-saving-the-oceans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/383283","title":{"rendered":"A rich guy&#8217;s guide to saving the oceans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tby Ashley Braun <\/p>\n<p><strong>To save the oceans<\/strong> (A checklist)<\/p>\n<p>Be heir to a vast fortune<br \/>Be named David<br \/>Get a &#8220;green&#8221; boat<br \/>Sail around the world to promote education and awareness about dismal ocean health<\/p>\n<p>Remind everyone <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hulu.com\/watch\/56632\/saturday-night-live-digital-short-im-on-a-boat\">you&#8217;re on a boat, Mother Earth, don&#8217;t you ever forget<\/a>!<br \/>Challenge other heir David sailing around world in support of oceans to a duel of boat awesomeness. Or heir apparent hotness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aroundtheamericas.org\/default.php\">David Rockefeller Jr. sails Around the Americas<\/a> for ocean awareness. No nautical-themed pashmina afghan necessary.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aroundtheamericas.org\/default.php\"><\/a>Photos: aroundtheamericas.org<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Versus <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.grist.org\/article\/2009-07-07-plastiki-de-rothschild\/\">David de Rothschild and his drive, er, sail to bottleneck plastic pollution on Plastiki<\/a>, the water vessel made of plastic water vessels:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/plastiki\/\"><\/a>Photos: Plastiki via Flickr<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-03-04-what-to-do-when-haters-diss-livable-communities\/\">What to do when haters diss livable communities<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-03-04-supermarket-medleys-are-a-fruit-smashing-success\/\">Supermarket medleys are a fruit-smashing success<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-03-03-peepoo-bags-help-the-developing-world-take-off-a-load\/\">Peepoo bags help the developing world take off a load<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=b097f14119b6cdefb745da629f0b0b0a&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=b097f14119b6cdefb745da629f0b0b0a&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2223\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ashley Braun To save the oceans (A checklist) Be heir to a vast fortuneBe named DavidGet a &#8220;green&#8221; boatSail around the world to promote education and awareness about dismal ocean health Remind everyone you&#8217;re on a boat, Mother Earth, don&#8217;t you ever forget!Challenge other heir David sailing around world in support of oceans to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":765,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/765"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}