Editing David Helvarg (section)

=== Books ===

==== The Golden Shore - California's Love Affair with the Sea ====
The Golden Shore "The Golden Shore" (in imprint of St. Martin's)  2013.  "Boy, I loved this book.  David Helvarg captures, in a really readable way, the quirky and head-over-heels love we have for our seas." - Ted Danson.

"Having lived in California for forty-four years, I was surprised by how much I learned from David Helvarg's book The Golden Shore.  It blew my mind.  If you have the same love affair for the beautiful California coast and ocean as I do, this marvelous and compelling book is a must-read." - Jean-Michel Cousteau.

====Saved by the Sea -- A Love Story with Fish====
"Saved by the Sea"(an imprint of St. Martin's) 2010. Ocean Explorer Sylvia Earle says, "This book has the power to change the way you think about the world, about yourself, and the future of humankind." Helvarg writes what he knows about the changes in his life and our Ocean world over the last half century.

===="Rescue Warriors - The U.S. Coast Guard, America's Forgotten Heroes" (St. Martin's 2009)====
Robert Kennedy Jr. says, "David Helvarg's terrific new book takes you to the cutting edge of adventure as he rides along with the men and women of the U.S. Coast Guard.  This in-depth and lively look at the history and changing missions of America's 'Rescue Warriors' should be considered a must-read for anyone who loves the water or cares about the safety, security, and stewardship of our nation from sea to shining sea."   
Bill McKibben writes, "They say that 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help' is the ultimate oxymoron.  But as this vivid book makes powerfully clear, in the case of the Coast Guard it's the simple truth.  Stow this volume next to the chart case."

===="50 Ways To Save the Ocean" (Inner Ocean, 2006)====
[[Sylvia Earle]] writes, "Combining wisdom and humor, scientific accuracy and artistic genius, Helvarg and [[Jim Toomey|Toomey]] show why the ocean matters to us all...Everyone, from toddler to tycoon, can find inspiration for action in this must-have guide to ocean care."
"This is a great book - it makes saving the oceans fun and doable (which it is, by the way)" adds actor [[Ted Danson]]
"This book is an important guide for the public to saving our oceans." - [[Leon Panetta]], former chair - Pew Oceans commission & co-chair of the [[Joint Ocean Commission Initiative]], former [[Director of the CIA]], current [[United States Secretary of Defense]].

====''The War against the Greens''====
Helvarg's book ''The War against the Greens'' (1994) describes organized [[opposition to the environmental movement in the United States]]. He investigated the [[Wise Use]] movement, which he characterizes as a network of anti-environmentalist groups. Wise Use aims to facilitate extensive use of natural resources and to privatize the [[National Park Service]]. The first edition explored the origins of the organization in 1988 and its covert support by the administration of U.S. President [[George H. W. Bush]]. Helvarg identified its funding and the multinational corporations and other powerful figures with which it was associated. He catalogued the use of violence that he believed to be organized by the movement against environmental activists, and the ineffective response of law-enforcement agencies. A revised edition published in 2004 extended this to cover the early years of President [[George W. Bush]]'s administration.

''Wisconsin Stewardship Network News'' described it as a book that "provides a fascinating and frightening insight into the violent fringe of the anti-conservation Wise Use movement [… and recommends it] in its entirety to readers who want a detailed examination of the origins, development and violent tendencies of Wise Use." The opposing view was put by [[Jesse Walker]] who, reviewing the book for ''American Enterprise'', wrote that it "offers environmentalists a conspiracy theory to account for the populist backlash against their movement". Helvarg had accused Wise Use of [[astroturfing]]; Walker described his book as "a weapon in a propaganda war".<!---Walker 1995|Walker1995--->

''War against the Greens'' is widely cited by activists inside the environmental movement (for example [[Community Rights Counsel]]<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20050405140946/http://www.communityrights.org/CombatsJudicialActivism/TP/chapter4.asp Community Rights Counsel: The Takings Project<!-- Bot generated title -->]}}</ref>  and Land Tenure Center<ref>[http://www.ies.wisc.edu/ltc/ltc157.html LTC 157<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050601083225/http://www.ies.wisc.edu/ltc/ltc157.html |date=2005-06-01 }}</ref> ) and gave rise to numerous rebuttals from Wise Use and its supporters (including [[Ron Arnold]]).

====''Blue Frontier—Dispatches from America's Ocean Wilderness''====
Helvarg's second book, ''Blue Frontier— Dispatches from America's Ocean Wilderness'' (2001, revised 2006), was named on the ''Los Angeles Times'' "Best Books of 2001"  <!--by [[Sierra Club|Sierra Club Books]]-->republished in 2006. In it Helvarg explores the effects of human activity in general, and of commerce and policy in particular, on marine life. He postulates a trend towards destruction, and suggests that it is possible to reverse this. He then describes some of the people and groups that are working to preserve or enhance the marine environment.

This book prompted Senator [[John Kerry]] to observe that "David Helvarg underscores the full measure of the challenges before us: If we hope to explore the Blue Frontier, we must travel cautiously, repairing the damage we have done, understanding before we exploit, and always preserving the natural systems that have created it."<!---Blue Frontier Foundation web-site <http://bluefront.org/> Retrieved April 7, 2005|BFFweb---> It was also one of the catalysts for the establishment of the Blue Frontier Campaign and has become a definitive text for US marine conservation (characterized as 'the Seaweed rebellion').<!---Offutt 2005, Ocean Project 2004, Surfride Foundation 2005|BFDefText--->

====''The Ocean and Coastal Conservation Guide''====
Helvarg is the editor of Blue Frontier Campaign's first major publication: ''The Ocean and Coastal Conservation Guide'' (2005), a directory for those interested in the protection and restoration of United States coastal lands and waters. Blue Frontier Campaign plans to publish a new edition of the guide every two years.

This reference book lists over 2,000 organizations involved in the conservation of the oceans and coastal areas that border the United States. Each entry includes contact information and a brief description of that organization's activities. The directory is divided into four listings: a geographical listings of groups; relevant government agencies; academic marine programs; and marine and coastal parks, and protected areas.

====''Feeling the Heat''====
Helvarg contributed two chapters to ''Feeling the Heat—Reports from the Frontlines of Climate Change'' (2004): Chapter Eight 'Australia, Florida and Fiji: Reefs At Risk' and Chapter 10 'Antarctica: The Ice is Moving' are about threatened ecosystems.

The book is a development of a suite of articles that appeared in the October/November 2000 edition of ''E/The Environmental Magazine''. The publishers "aimed to move beyond the scientific debate […] to document […] the evidence for a changing climate".<!---Motavalli, emagazine.com|MotavalliE---> Each chapter is a first person account of places threatened by global warming. According to Helvarg, warming waters are killing the world's coral and threatening the extinction of Australia's [[Great Barrier Reef]] and the reefs around the [[Florida Keys]], while the rising waters threaten to engulf the entire ocean nation of [[Fiji]]. In Antarctica he observed scientists measuring the krill population and concludes that the reduction that they found is a consequence of increased water temperatures.