This year's Capitol Hill Ocean Week was chock-a-block with great speakers and interesting topics. You can catch up via OceansLIVE!, which has recordings of President Obama's Counselor John Podesta giving the keynote address, and Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell. Podesta is a White House senior counselor overseeing climate change, energy policy and environmental issues, and said the nation must double-down on its efforts to protect the oceans and better balance the management of the economic, environmental, energy and security resources it provides. Podesta said that the Administration is committed to using the remainder of the president's term to advance marine conservation and to support and encourage growth of the ocean economy, and announced a new process to allow communities to nominate areas to be considered as national marine sanctuaries. Jewell called climate change the defining issue of our time and the reason she took the job as Secretary of the Interior. She spoke about marine and coastal resources being important drivers of U.S. economic activity and noted U.S. coastal and marine national parks and refuges host 100 million visitors every year which supports 77,000 jobs. The Secretary said sustainability and taking care of our planet and resources "is a team sport." She closed by saying very complex issues are made less complex when people work across sectors to solve challenges and help to craft sustainable solutions for the future. To view presentations, see: http://innerspacecenter.org/oceanslive