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David Helvarg
environmental writer
Award winning journalist and ocean activist David Helvarg is president of the Blue Frontier Campaign and the author of three books: *Blue Frontier Dispatches from Americas Ocean Wilderness*, *The War Against the Greens*, and *50 Ways to Save the Ocean*. He has produced more than 40 broadcast documentaries for PBS, The Discovery Channel and others, and written for newspapers and radio.