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OCEAN BEAT is a project of TURNING THE TIDES.
OCEAN BEAT OVERVIEW
OCEAN BEAT uses the international language of music – a language of the heart – to unite students across the world to help reverse the decline of the oceans – a deterioration that affects the life of every human, plant and animal on earth.
OCEAN BEAT is a coalition of traditional elders, modern educators, cutting edge scientists and musicians that uses the internet to link students across the world. Students learn to combine traditional wisdom with contemporary science to help heal the oceans and perform ancient chants and drumming together with pop songs and rap.
OCEAN BEAT holds a vision of thousands of students singing together in an international internet concert, celebrating the oceans and the efforts of ordinary people to help save them, and inspiring actions everyone, wherever they live, can take.
OBJECTIVES
To experience the beauty, vitality, importance and intelligence of the natural world, with a focus on oceans and their importance to the continuation of life.
To use the international language of music to bring together people across political, cultural and religious borders celebrating each other and the world around us.
To work together to help heal the ocean – remembering that wherever we are and whatever we do affects their health.
WHAT IS HAPPENING TO THE OCEANS – AND WHY SHOULD WE CARE?
Oceans are 71% of our planet and ocean plankton provide 70% of the world’s oxygen. Without the oceans, not even a cactus can live. Even if we have never seen an ocean and live thousands of miles away, whatever we do affects them. Toxins, plastics, everyday garbage – all make their way to the ocean. Everything – from the clothes we wear to the food we eat, affects ocean health – and the health of everything else! We are learning that what we throw away returns to us in food, air and water. We are truly part of a web.
National Geographic has announced results of a recent study that predicts widespread suffocation of the ocean by 2030. “Dead zones” – zones with little or no oxygen – are proliferating and the deterioration of our oxygen supply will, according to this study, be apparent within the next twelve years.
If we don’t change, we will end up where we’re going!
