Oceans, Waves and Beaches

Some people just put ink to paper and a feeling emerges.
Thomas Campbell is one of those people.
His work has a flowy, surfy, childlike, dreamy quality. An endless doodle threaded together by a stealth message of joy. His work immediately resonates with me… every time. I see the joy half of Surfrider’s mission in his work [...]

Innovators share many traits and interests. But historically they haven’t been paying much attention to environmental issues. That has shifted.
Innovators are comfortable with risk/reward decisions, they are used to zigging when the mainstream is zagging and they live with a worldview that is years in front of others. However, it’s not all cover shots [...]

Google has a white slick landing page interface. It’s as clean as a white ipod.
It takes power to run your PC, especially that big monitor you are reading this from.
White screens require more power than black screens.
Or at least that is a logical conclusion… and since this is the internet we’re talking about there are [...]

Why oh why do we need to make solutions complicated?
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Any movement with a small target market… isn’t a movement at all.
I love the idea of going beyond the small group approach to environmentalism… beyond the greenie secret handshake. I love the idea of engaging all types of people.
I love the idea of a multitude of onramps into the environmetal movement. I love the personalization [...]

I was in tech for while before I came to Surfrider. Shifting industries is an invigorating experience. It’s like learning a new sport and pursuing it immediately as a professional. You find yourself reaching for familiarity and instead being handed a blank canvas. I’ve loved it.
The transition has caused me to pause a few times. [...]