#BlueMind Challenge

[Join us for our 5th Annual #BlueMind Challenge for 100 days, starting May 28, 2018!]

#BlueMind Challenge 2015 has come to an end, but will return next year.

Please have a look at this beautiful compilation slide show of all of YOUR images from the book tour.

We've just begun the Blue Mind Book Club. You can read the book with friends or follow along on Instagram, Good Reads, Facebook or Twitter using the #bluemind hashtag.

“I feel I belong in the water—I feel we all belong in the water, I cease to be a sort of obsessed intellect and a shaky body, and I just become a porpoise.”

- Oliver Sacks

At 6:51 am EDT on June 21st, 2014, the first day of summer, we launched the #BlueMind Challenge: The 100-Day Blue Mind Book Tour.

During these 100 days our #BlueMind Ambassadors will commit to safely spending time near, in, on, or under their favorite water (any water) each day for 100 days, sharing their experiences with those around them, and spreading the Blue Mind message.

Our goal is to change the way people feel, think, talk, and ACT about water, emphasizing a deeper understanding of the vast but underappreciated emotional and cognitve benefits of healthy waterways and oceans.

The research and experiences behind this way of thinking fill the pages of Blue MInd.

If you, your organization, business, or school would like to join us, subscribe here and we will add you to the 100 Days of Blue email list to receive brief updates from time to time.

Daily messages can be read on the LIVE BLUE Blog.

We'll send some special surprises in the mail, so if you'd like to go deeper, please provide your best mailing address for the 100 Days of Blue time period.

The hashtag is #BlueMind on social media if you'd like to track the action and share it with your network.

100 Days of Blue: Summer 2014 (and Beyond) Blue MInd Book Tour Dates and Locations (so far):

At each location of the book tour we will highlight the work of scientists, conservationists, athletes, advocates, and artists working to keep our oceans and waterways clean, healthy and accessible. That's really the whole pojnt of #100DaysofBlue.

(more detailed information on each event can be found here)

JUNE

June 11: Blue Mind 4 Summit, Bedruthan Steps, United Kingdom

June 12: United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand Blue Mind Book Launch

June 14: Monterey Bay Aquarium 30th Anniversary, w/ Jack Johnson, Monterey, CA

June 21: LAUNCH: 100 Days of Blue, Worldwide                     

June 25: UK Book Tour Begins, United Kingdom

June 30-July 2: Global Estuaries Forum, Deauville, France

JULY

July 3 : FRANCE Book Tour Begins, Paris, France

July 22: Blue Mind US Book Launch, Santa Monica Public Library, Santa Monica, CA

July 25: BOOK LAUNCH PARTY: Bookshop Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA

July 29: READING: Powell’s Bookstore, Portland, OR

July 30: SPEAKER: Eco Trust, Portland, OR

July 31: SPEAKER: Microsoft Lunch Speaker, Seattle, WA

July 31: READING: University Washington Bookstore, Seattle, WA

AUGUST

August 5: SPEAKER: The Bay Institute, Sausalito, CA

August 7: LAUNCH PARTY: California Academy of Sciences, Nightlife, San Francisco, CA

August 10: BOOK SIGNING: Book Passage Corte Madera, San Francisco, CA

SEPTEMBER

September 8-12 : Blue Mind Experience: Snake River Expedition w/ OARS, Hell's Canyon, Idaho

September 26-28: KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Chesapeake Bay Forum, Washington, DC

September 28: 100 Days of Blue ends and the online Blue Mind Book Club begins!

OCTOBER

October 17-19: SPEAKER: Bioneers, San Rafael, CA

NOVEMBER

November 3-9: Blue Ocean Film Festival, Tampa, FL

November 18-19: KEYNOTE SPEAKER: International Conference on Argos Wildlife Appslications, Baltimore, MD

November 19: BOOK SIGNING:  Baltimore Aquarium, Baltimore, MD

November 26: SPEAKER:  Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada

DECEMBER

TBA

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