Oceans, Waves and Beaches

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A silver lining to the Gulf spill (if there can be such a thing) has been that Americans are finally aware that oil… spills.
Maybe I can stretch what we’ve learned to suggest that we now know that oil spills with some frequency.
In the Fall of 2009 there was a ten-week oil spill off the coast [...]

“Pier Pressure” (attributed to Banksy). Great work.
To the right is the shop view. Click on the image for a larger view.
Below is the work installed at Brighton Beach, England.
Brilliant.

File this one under “Activists in the Gulf.”
You can think of Mike Sturdivant as our Gulf of Mexico point person. He’s the Chair of Surfrider’s Emerald Coast Chapter, covering the Pensacola to Panama City region.
I caught up with him on August 2nd to get his take on what had happened, how it was affecting the [...]

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 [...]

I travel a fair bit and it’s usually not my practice to write a blog series after a trip; however, the Gulf oil spill is in it’s own category. It’s happening in real time so I thought I’d continue to share my perspective. Here is a link to my “Gulf trip lessons” series.
I feel the [...]

I spent this past week on the Gulf coast along the upper Florida panhandle (everything west of Panama City) and on the Alabama coast. During my trip, I spoke with various business owners, water enthusiasts, lifeguards, hazmat workers, tourists and our Emerald Coast Surfrider chapter. Many topics were discussed but the one that rises [...]