Oceans, Waves and Beaches

When I think of an image that captures our new strategic plan vision something very close to the above comes to mind.
I like it because the beach is accessible, it’s clean and looks natural. The water seems clean (at least to the naked eye). I also love that there is a sense of enjoyment inferred [...]

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. I love it because it turns our perspective around 180 degrees… instead of people focusing on what they don’t have it asks the simple question… what are we thankful for?
Of course one could point out that black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, is for many people anything but [...]

There are lots of ways to appreciate the world’s beaches. One is via photography. National Geographic recently posted it’s 25 winners. This one caught my eye.

Photo by Richard Rush

A few years ago we were robbed.
The robbers were drawn to something I could not have predicted. They took all my Vans. These were fairly hard to find as they were deep in my closet. They took little else. I grew up with my mom telling me to lock up the valuables, hide the silver, [...]

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It’s very clear that the future is all about video. Video can be education tools, activist tools and entertainment tools.
25 more Surfrider videos here.

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I was up at Google yesterday for the launch of Google Earth 5.0.
The application is groundbreaking and very worthy of your time and curiosity.
Surfrider Foundation was one of the partners involved the launch, having provided a small amount of input into the grand vision behind Google Earth. Specifically, we participated in some of the dialog [...]

The wild economic ride we’re all on is causing us to adapt a new set of lenses to look at the world; this is perhaps the single largest positive result to come from the global economic crisis.
Just a few years ago a dollar (or your local currency) didn’t carry the weight it does now. For [...]

Or perhaps I should title this “why we won’t last another century.”
When we build in flood plains or below sea level, we should not be surprised when it eventually… floods. When we build homes in areas of repeated wildfires, we shouldn’t be surprised they burn. And when we believe we can control nature with our [...]

I took this series of photos during a recent trip to Brazil for our International Conference. I traveled extensively prior to coming on board at Surfrider, and since I’ve been here I’ve come to view the world with a very different set of lenses. This collage illustrates those two sets of lenses.
I’d been to Brazil [...]