Collaboration at various geographic scales is being increasingly highlighted as the way we can achieve major changes in the way we tackle the biggest issues in the marine environment. These two contributions are thought provoking in different ways.

How NOT to eat an elephant.  A very different way of thinking on this advice to problem solving. It is an endorsement for the powers of collaboration.

The new power of collaboration

Howard Rheingold talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action – interesting TED talk