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When Covid hit in March 2020, organizations like Heirs To Our Ocean — young and entering the next phase of their life cycle — were deeply affected. To our surprise, Packard Foundation responded without delay, creating a Resilience Initiative and kindly including Heirs To Our Ocean in its offerings to support operations through consultants and […]

Beyond an honor! Mahalo to Papalii Dr. Failautusi Avegalio, Director of Pacific Business Center of the University of Hawai’i, for nominating Heirs To Our Ocean as a recipient of a 2022 Star of Oceania Award. Nominations are attributed to service and/or organizational contribution to the health of our planet — Moana and Aina — and […]

APRIL PEEBLER

I am happy to share that as of June 3, 2022, Heirs To Our Ocean (H2OO) is a Decade Implementation Partner (DIP) of UNESCO-IOC’s Ocean Decade. H2OO was invited to become a DIP because in 2020 it formed, and has since supported, a meaningful and authentic Youth Advisory Council to UN Ocean Decade (YAC for UNOD). The first YAC […]

EMILY BERGLUND

The Heirs To Our Ocean community is unique in many ways. What stands out most to me is that the organization understands that, in order to take on big and intersectional challenges, like harm to humans due to the climate crisis and corporate and government corruption, we need each other. Since Heirs began in 2016, it […]

Youth leaders from the Berkeley Chapter supported by Chapter Advisor and teacher Jacqueline Omania took big strides inspiring their community and others to #breakfreefromplastic! “Berkeley Heirs had quite an exciting year! They spoke at 2 school board meetings in support of reusables in the Berkeley Unified School District as single-use plastic should not be used […]