Hello and greetings and welcome to the Live Happy Now podcast.

I'm your host, J.R. Houston, thrilled that wherever you are in the world and whatever

you may be doing, you are making us a part of your day. We also want to thank our partners

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Very excited about our guest today.

Peter Neal is the director of the World Ocean Observatory, and we're going to learn more about the importance of our oceans for our global well-being.

And Peter, thank you so much for joining us.

As you can tell, we're very interested in positive psychology and happiness, and one of the

best things that we can do to make our lives happier is to make our environment happier.

So we're excited to get some information from you.

Thanks for joining us.

I'm delighted to be here on this very special day, Earth Day, which is a day that is celebrated on April 22nd, but every day is Earth Day, just as every day is Ocean Day.

That's very true.

Now, you are the founder or at least the director of the World Ocean Observatory.

Can you tell us more about that and why it was created?

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