Oceans, Waves and Beaches

I love this work by Casey McKee because it illustrates real life.
We tend not to connect the dots in our lives.
The plastic products we buy require oil which must be extracted from somewhere. They require more oil to be manufactured somewhere else and yet more oil to get those products to us.
Our choices have footprints [...]

I podcast to share the gold.
(re-posted from mid-2008)
A few days ago I had breakfast with Julia Chunn. She was born and raised in San Diego, became smitten with the ocean while perched on the front of her dad’s longboard as a kid, came up through the ranks of the San Diego chapter, went on to [...]

There is a certain, nearly indescribable feeling one gets when riding waves. Julie Goldstein comes pretty darn close with her work.
More of her work here.

Pablo’s site here and his swell town work here.

Beautiful, tragic image by Joan Vianna. More of his work here.

If we are honest with ourselves we will admit we’ve industrialized the open spaces that we used to hold up as examples of places too special to develop.
What do you think of when you hear the word “beach”?
Casey McKee takes the idea of “beaches” and “coasts” and challenges the imagery that’s commonly associated with those [...]

Last evening Andy Davis hosted his Coloring Contest event at our headquarters in San Clemente. There were well over 100 entries and many offered heart-felt connections with Andy’s art and the coasts in general. The event was an extension of that combination. What rose above everything else was “inclusive joy.” What I mean by that [...]

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Jack Johnson and the amazing team at Brushfire Records have generously included Surfrider Foundation in their last two world tours and we are forever grateful to them. On the last tour he helped us launch our Rise Above Plastics campaign which has since yielded 17 victories to minimize the use of single-use plastic (Californians, help [...]