Oceans, Waves and Beaches

Sometimes it’s abstract for people to think about how trash ends up in the ocean from places far away from the coasts. Is it possible for a candy wrapper littered on a ski slope to really make it all the way to the ocean? Of course it is… water flows downhill to… the ocean.
Rise above [...]

Advertisement for Oceans Initiative, an event started by Surfrider Europe, which has the goal of minimizing our use of single-use plastics (and keeping plastics out of our oceans).

We’ve all heard a myriad of statistics regarding plastics in our oceans. We’ve seen images of ocean animals dead from ingesting plastics. This graph illustrates the delta between how much plastic have been created and how much as been recovered. Gulp.

Data: CalRecycle

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 [...]

“People listen when it’s a child standing in front of them telling them that they’re doing wrong and they need to start doing right.” Jordan Howard
Great, straightforward message about awareness, engagement and leadership.

Green Magazine has connected with Surfrider’s Hawaii chapters. The below advertisement is in this month’s issue. They also published a piece on Rell Sunn and her contributions to Surfrider, you can find that here.
It’s great to see organizations come together and focus on their collective goals of preserving local regions.

On this Martin Luther King day I thought I’d kick off a new series of blogs focused on volunteers and activists. If I had to distill Surfrider Foundation down to it’s essence it would be a picture of a volunteer or activist. My goal with this series is to offer a glimpse of who these [...]