Oceans, Waves and Beaches

When I was a kid my dad would always remind us to turn the lights off. He came from a generation that understood scarcity. His generation and one prior didn’t take things for granted like we do. Things shifted, today kids grow up with a phone in their backpack, a bottle of water in their [...]

Some butt facts…

Cigarette butts are the most littered item in The United States and the world.

2,000,000,000+ cigarette butts get tossed everyday.

Americans toss more than 175 million pounds of cigarette butts out every year. These frequently are cast onto streets and pushed into storm drains that flow to streams and ultimately the ocean.

At beach cleanups, cigarette [...]

Australia’s Bondi Beach, just outside of Sydney, gained the prominence and (hopefully) protection with the inclusion on Australia’s Heritage List. Bondi is known for being one of the country’s most famous beaches and is known for it’s sand, cliffs, waves, parks and surf lifesaving clubs. Also on the list are the Great Barrier Reef and [...]

Chris Tola, Chair of Surfrider Australia, at San Onofre, CA.
Surfrider Foundation’s mission is not limited to the United States.
Although I kind of wish it was. I wish other areas of the globe didn’t have to engage to preserve coastal regions… but they do.
In many places on the globe they have enact our mission this with [...]

Southern California has lots of cars, lots of people… lots of traffic. So it’s no surprise that road rage is associated with Southern California.
Now… it’s late 2007.
Australia has had horrible droughts. Thus an opening line “Australia has suffered its first death by ‘water rage’ as the country confronts its seventh year of crippling drought” may [...]

There is something about seeing a local campaign go wide…

Chris Tola, Chair of Surfrider Australia, supporting a US campaign from across the pond.
Save Trestles