The Divers Alert Network Europe, otherwise known as DAN Europe, was created 40 years ago to protect divers. However, it started to realize that the playground of the divers, the ocean, also needed protection. To that end, they created the Sustainability Tour, led by Alana Alvarez and Manuel Bustelo. The two of them are traveling across Europe and its surrounding areas in an electric car, creating awareness as they go about the perils that the ocean is facing.

This year’s focus is on climate change’s evil twin, ocean acidification. This threat acts like an osteoporosis of the sea and Alana and Manuel are, quite literally, driving for a change.

We talk about how easy is it to drive across Europe on only renewable energy, what carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has to do with the acidity of the ocean, and what are the effects of this acidification that we need to be aware of.

Resources

• Sustainable Tour Website 
• Instagram 
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Youtube
• Alana’s IG
• Manuel’s IG 

 

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