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Episode 5 – Life In Plastic, Not So Fantastic
Plastic can brush your hair, today it’s everywhere
Without cessation, we’re hurt by our creation

In our final episode of Peak & Plunge, we talk to special guest Dianna Cohen, a visual artist and co-founder/CEO of Plastic Pollution Coalition. A fierce advocate for “shutting off the tap” of plastic pollution,  her personal journey actually began with an immense appreciation for plastic as a material. Though plastic started off as a wonderful thing, today Dianna explains how a modern life in plastic may just be more costly than it’s worth.
Is plastic an enemy to to rioted against with torches and pitchforks? Is there really a Texas-sized trash island floating in the Pacific? And like, what the heck is carrying around a reusable straw even gonna do, anyways? Listen now to our final episode! 
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Peak & Plunge Episode 5: Life In Plastic, Not So Fantastic
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External Links
Plastic Pollution Coalition Website
Dianna’s Art Portfolio
How to Be an Urban Packer 
Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act 
Information About the UN Plastics Treaty


Artwork Attributions
Podcast Cover Artwork by Mercedes Schultz.


Music And Sound Attributions


Out of the Skies, Under the Earth by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/reappear/
Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/ 
I Am a Man Who Will Fight for Your Honor by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/honor/
Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/ 
All other sound effects and music tracks are under the YouTube Audio license, are Public Domain, or are otherwise free to use without attribution.


Special Thanks
Special thank you to Dianna Cohen  for her time, expertise, and passion as well as lending her voice to this episode! All voices are used with permission.
Special thank you to YOU! Our listeners. Thank you for taking the time out of your day to learn alongside us about these invisible connections.
Peak and Plunge is hosted, written, and produced by Dane Whicker, and produced in proud partnership with the Inland Ocean Coalition.
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Full Show Notes available here.
Episode Transcript available here.
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Questions, Comments, or Feedback? I'd love to hear from you! Find me on social media or email me directly at biodiversitypodcast@gmail.com

Episode 4 – Ancient Oceans, Modern Consequences
Every time we make our morning coffee, jump in a car, or turn on a light, we have prehistoric oceans to thank. 
In episode 4 of Peak & Plunge, we talk to special guest Joanie Kleypas, a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research based in Boulder, Colorado. As an inlander climate AND coral scientist, she’s the perfect person to help illuminate how fossil fuels, climate change, inland choices, and ocean health are all interconnected. 
Why aren’t most fossil fuels actually dead dinosaurs? What the HECK even is coral? And what does our dependence on fossil fuels, inland or otherwise, mean for the future of the sparkling blue?
Listen and find out!
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Peak & Plunge Episode 4: Ancient Oceans, Modern Consequences
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External Links
National Center for Atmospheric Research - https://ncar.ucar.edu/
Artwork Attributions
Podcast Cover Artwork by Mercedes Schultz.
Music And Sound Attributions
Fluidscape by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100393
Artist: http://incompetech.com/ 
All other sound effects and music tracks are under the YouTube Audio license, are Public Domain, or are otherwise free to use without attribution.
Special Thanks
Special thank you to Joanie Kleypas for her time, expertise, and passion as well as lending her voice to this episode! All voices are used with permission.
Peak and Plunge is hosted, written, and produced by Dane Whicker, and produced in proud partnership with the Inland Ocean Coalition.
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Full Show Notes available here.
Episode Transcript available here.
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Questions, Comments, or Feedback? I'd love to hear from you! Find me on social media or email me directly at biodiversitypodcast@gmail.com

The show where the word is made up and your seafood choices matter!
In episode 3 of Peak & Plunge, we talk to special guest Cory Nash, Outreach Manager at the esteemed Monterey Bay Seafood Watch program, about our relationships with seafood. In a world where overfishing threatens not only the ocean's health but the lives and rights of us humans - this relationship holds a lot more weight that most realize.
What the heck does sustainable even mean, and who is it for? Does the seafood we eat inland matter? 
Listen and find out!
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Peak & Plunge Episode 3: Whose Sustainability Is It Anyway?
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External Links
Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch - https://www.seafoodwatch.org/ 
How to Install Seafood Watch on your phone: https://www.seafoodwatch.org/recommendations/add-seafood-watch-to-your-phone 
The Crimes Behind The Seafood You Eat, An Excellently Reported Article on Seafood’s Human Cost: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/16/the-crimes-behind-the-seafood-you-eat

A Guide To the Environmental Impacts of Fishing and Farming Methods - https://www.seafoodwatch.org/seafood-basics/fishing-and-farming-methods

Artwork Attributions:
Podcast cover artwork by Mercedes Schultz.


Music And Sound Attributions:
All sound effects and music tracks are under the YouTube Audio license, are Public Domain, or are otherwise free to use without attribution.


Special Thanks:
Special thank you to Seth Watkins for his time and expertise, as well as lending his voice to this episode! And another to Melissa Jung, who has since moved on from the IOC but we appreciate her hard work and voice all the same! All voices are used with permission.


This episode of the Peak & Plunge podcast was written, hosted, and produced by Dane Whicker. Interviews conducted by Dane Whicker. All voices are used with permission.


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Full Show Notes available here.
Episode Transcript Available Here.
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Inland Ocean Coalition Website: https://inlandoceancoalition.org/


Peak and Plunge is hosted, written, and produced by Dane Whicker, and produced in proud partnership with the Inland Ocean Coalition.


Questions, Comments, or Feedback? I'd love to hear from you! Find me on social media or email me directly at biodiversitypodcast@gmail.com

Let’s remember… everything goes somewhere. 
In episode 2 of Peak & Plunge, we talk to special guests Seth Watkins and Mia Glover about how inland agriculture, our food systems, climate, and the oceans all relate. Seth is the owner of Pinhook Farm, where he raises beef cattle, hair sheep, chickens, bees… and where he challenges agricultural convention daily. He sees the connections between what he does on the farm and the oceans of the world - and strives to steward and bolster those connections instead of conquering and degrading them. 
Can where you buy food make the difference between clean beaches and a lot of dead fish? 
Listen and find out!
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Peak & Plunge Episode 2: Healthy Soils, Healthy Seas
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Supplementary Pictures and Videos
Video 1 – Understanding Our Soils, a GREAT visual guide to nitrogen, fertilizers, and soils.
Video Credit: Jimi Sol.
Picture 1 – Asparagopsis taxiformis, a potential climate hero?
Picture credit: Roberto Pillon. Used under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 DEED License

External Links
Pinhook Farm
Inland Ocean Coalition Ocean Friendly Farming
Global Greens
In Harmony Farms

Artwork Attributions:
Podcast cover artwork by Mercedes Schultz.
Music And Sound Attributions:
All sound effects and music tracks are under the YouTube Audio license, are Public Domain, or are otherwise free to use without attribution.
Special Thanks:
Special thank you to Seth Watkins for his time and expertise, as well as lending his voice to this episode! And another to Melissa Jung, who has since moved on from the IOC but we appreciate her hard work and voice all the same! All voices are used with permission.
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Full Show Notes available here.
Episode Transcript Available Here.
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 This episode of the Peak & Plunge podcast was written, hosted, and produced by Dane Whicker. Interviews conducted by Dane Whicker.  Peak and Plunge is produced in proud partnership with the Inland Ocean Coalition.

Inland Ocean Coalition Website
Questions, Comments, or Feedback? I'd love to hear from you! Find me on social media or email me directly at biodiversitypodcast@gmail.com

Ain't no mountain high enough
Ain't no deep sea low enough
Ain't no potato large enough
To keep me from talking bout you, sea~

In episode 1 of Peak & Plunge, we talk to special guest Mark Haver about the controversial practice of Deep Sea Mining. As Global Policy Advisor for the Sustainable Ocean Alliance, an environmental consultant, and advocate for action on our oceans and our climate, Mark helps us ask… do our future cell phones, cars, and green energy lie at the bottom of the sea? Or is this just another environmental disaster waiting to happen?

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Peak & Plunge Episode 1: Ain't No Mountain High, Ain't No Deep Sea Low
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Supplementary Pictures
Picture 1 – A Field of Polymetallic Nodules
Picture credit: Geomar Bilddatenbank. Used under a CC BY 4.0 DEED License

Picture 2 – Polymetallic Nodules (Metal Potatoes), Close Up
Picture credit: Hannes Grobe. Used under a CC BY 4.0 DEED License
Picture 3 – A Sea Cucumber, Psychropotes longicauda, on a polymetallic nodule
Picture credit: Geomar Bilddatenbank. Used under a CC BY 4.0 DEED License.

Bonus Picture because it’s Cute and I Want To – Casper the Ghost Octopus
Picture credit: NOAA. Picture is Public Domain.


External Links

Action you can take RIGHT NOW! Tell President Biden and U.S. Congress to “Say No to Deep-Sea Mining”.
Sustainable Ocean Alliance Deep Sea Mining Activation Toolkit

Look Down Action
Follow Mark! 
Deep-Sea Soundings (Poem), Full Text

Artwork Attributions:
Podcast cover artwork by Mercedes Schultz.
Music And Sound Attributions:
All sound effects and music tracks are under the YouTube Audio license, are Public Domain, or are otherwise free to use without attribution.
Special Thanks:
Special thank you to Mark Haver for his time and expertise, as well as lending his voice to this episode.  All voices are used with permission.
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Full Show Notes available here.

Episode Transcript Available Here.
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This episode of the Peak & Plunge podcast was written, hosted, and produced by Dane Whicker. Interviews conducted by Dane Whicker.  Peak and Plunge is produced in proud partnership with the Inland Ocean Coalition.

Inland Ocean Coalition Website
Questions, Comments, or Feedback? I'd love to hear from you! Find me on social media or email me directly at biodiversitypodcast@gmail.com

From our mountain peaks, let's plunge into the sea.

Introducing my latest podcast project - Peak & Plunge: Diving Into the Inland-Ocean Connection! In collaboration with the Inland Ocean Coalition, Peak & Plunge examines the ties between the ocean and those people that live miles away from it. Each episode, I talk to an expert in the field to examine inland-ocean ties through our seafood, our agriculture, our climate, our use of plastics, and even how, from the top of a mountain, your future might be reliant on potatoes from the deepest reaches of the ocean floor.

And don't worry... Bio-DIVE-rsity will still return! As always, thank you for listening.
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Trailer: Peak & Plunge
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Artwork Attributions:
Podcast cover artwork by Mercedes Schultz.
Music And Sound Attributions:
All sound effects and music tracks are under the YouTube Audio license, are Public Domain, or are otherwise free to use without attribution.
Special Thanks:
Special thank you to all the inland guests interviewed about your personal connections to the ocean, as well as experts Mark Haver, Cory Nash, and Seth Watkins. All voices are used with permission.
Peak and Plunge is hosted, written, and produced by Dane Whicker, and produced in proud partnership with the Inland Ocean Coalition.
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Full Show Notes, Including all Video, Picture, Music,  and Sound Attributions, as well as all informational citations, available here.

Episode Transcript Available Here.
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This episode of the Peak & Plunge podcast was written, hosted, and produced by Dane Whicker. Interviews conducted by Dane Whicker. All voices are used with permission.

Inland Ocean Coalition Website: https://inlandoceancoalition.org/

Questions, Comments, or Feedback? I'd love to hear from you! Find me on social media or email me directly  at biodiversitypodcast@gmail.com
Questions, Comments, or Feedback? I'd love to hear from you! Find me on social media or email me directly at biodiversitypodcast@gmail.com