Oceans, Waves and Beaches

As I watch the oil spill numbers ratchet up day after day I’m feeling my thoughts change. I’m moving from “Oh, my God… the damage is shocking” to “This is America’s moment of truth. This may be the single-largest opportunity to shift our culture.”
The disaster started a month and a half ago.
What [...]

One more, make that two more, craft looking for a spot on the waves.
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Ps. Sorry about the soundtrack

I dig big ideas.
Ever since Netscape went live, I’ve been captivated by the truism “the ‘net changes everthing.” Now that I’m at Surfrider I’m diving into what our shifting world means to a grassroots, global network like ours.
One of the characteristics of today that really interests me is that what we’re dealing with is wet [...]

Click on the channel button for a whole lotta Surfrider videos.
When I came onto staff a few years back I thought we needed a lot more media to tell our stories and get our mission across… I thought we needed more videos. I thought (and still think) we needed more onramps.
We’re getting there.
I’m stoked we [...]

I dig small cars.

I learned to drive in small European cars. Early generation SAABs, etc. Today I drive a Mini and love it. I can fit three boards… inside. Check this out…
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So what does this have to do with Surfrider?

We’ve never seen a road that didn’t lead to pollution as everything that ends up [...]

My niece, Kat McCourt, sends me a myriad of interesting reads. A month or so ago she sent me the Jared Diamond piece in the NYT titled “What’s Your Consumption Factor?“
It wrestles with the economic and natural resources extrapolation of the image to the left.
Essentially the piece explores the fact that first world locations (US, [...]

File under: Japanese Environmental Innovation

As you might expect, Surfrider is staying close to the emerging field of wave energy. In almost every instance to date that means near-shore mechanisms that are designed to try and capture energy from waves.
In this instance Ken-ichi Horie, Japanese inventor/innovator has created a boat that outdoes his solar-powered boat. It [...]

A few weeks ago I waxed on about the lack of innovation in the environmetal movement.
Well… the times they are a-changin’.
Here’s an example ->
Sevin Coskun designed The Washup to… wash clothes and flush the toilet and do so with a compact footprint.
This was part of the Greener Gadgets Conference (vid below) and, to me, does [...]

Dean Kamen is among the most significant thinkers and innovative creators in the world. I’m not even sure that’s debatable.
Kamen is an Edison of our times.
For the past decade or so I’ve noticed his name pop up time and time again and each time I find myself literally sitting back in my chair to grasp [...]