Environmental Education Week:Ocean Connections

Its National Environmental Education Week! Check out or website or facebook for daily updates about this years theme-Ocean Connections. Oceans contain about 324 million cubic miles of seawater with about 53 million billion tons of dissolved salts and gases. The diversity of plant, animal, even microbial life is astonishing. Every day we learn more about the importance of oceans to humans. Just look at coral, its architecture and chemistry is so similar to human bone that coral has been used to replace bone grafts in helping human bone to heal quickly and cleanly.