Oceans, Waves and Beaches

I first came to know Manase because he was a constant fixture at the San Diego Surfrider chapter meetings. He was always engaged and always adding value. About a year ago he left the sands of Southern California for his third tour on the sands of Iraq.
When I heard he was back, safe and sound, [...]

Sometimes the best lessons are the simple ones…
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00Z – Scrubbing w/o the Spigot from marty benson on Vimeo.

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00Z – Bag-Equipped from marty benson on Vimeo.

A few years ago I did the San Diego / Tijuana watershed tour with the crew from WildCoast and it was an eye opening experience. The amount of trash, the intensity of toxicity, and the fact that it all flows into a state park left an imprint on my brain that won’t go away.
The Imperial [...]

Step one, create a killer event. The San Diego crew created the Paddle for Clean Water 17-years ago.
Step two, make it an annual shindig.  Make it better each year.  This past years event was the second at the “festival” level (bands, food, etc).
Step three, put clips online to draw more attention to the cause (clean [...]

Great piece in the Reader (a local, San Diego pub) on bags, bags… everywhere. Urban Tumbleweeds, check it out.
Simultaneously Encinitas, with the help, support and nudging from some stellar local activists, helped push forward a local bag ban. Details on that here. Special kudos to Elizabeth Wiles for leading the charge, seeming while representing Surfrider’s [...]

The Fourth of July brings with it something unique. No, I’m not talking about fireworks.
The Fourth of July usually brings… trash. More specifically it brings trash onto beaches.
In San Diego, where I live, this phenomenon has been so notable it’s gained it’s own brand “Morning after mess.” The photo to the right of Pacific Beach [...]

Does anyone draw lines on a wave like Skip Fry?
Rhetorical question.
Does anyone surf lines on a page the way that Andy Davis does?
Um… no, nein, 否…
Thus the following is a an interesting pairing, like Astaire and Rogers… Solo and Chewbacca or Strummer and Jones.
If your in Southern California this weekend, check this out.

I post our victories every month. If you want the reasoning behind this exercise, pop on over to this post “understanding victories at a glance.” Here’s this month’s batch.
West Los Angeles / Malibu Plastic Bag Ban in Malibu
In support of Heal The Bay’s effort to address the problem of plastic bag litter in the marine [...]

This message is catching on… here we see students at La Costa Canyon in north county San Diego taking the message and driving it into their culture.

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