Torrey Trust, owner of Surf eCo, wanted to do more to protect the oceans and the environment so she opened up her own surf school that teaches kids young and old about the environment while helping them catch a few waves. Located in Encinitas, CA, known for surfing and now banning ...
Ocean lovin' Israelis participate in International Coastal Cleanup day. Shouldn't you?
:: Go canoeing with these three, easy green steps.
:: Pair a hot mug of organic coffee with deep dish apple pie. Mmm...
:: Convince your green goblin to enter the Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge....
Image source: Clean Water Now
Come one, come all. Next Saturday is the annual California Coastal Beach Cleanup and you're invited! People all across California will be participating in restoring beaches all at the same time, next Saturday September 20, from 9am-12pm. Communities will hold beach cleanups but also pass out information on feel-good stuff like recycling, as well as host contests and beach-goers will be serenaded by musicians.
Photo credit: Julie Grant/The Environment Reporter
Image source: Twinka Tison
Fortunately (or unfortunately) the surf was flat on Monday, which squashed our plans to paddle out, but did give me a chance to sit down with Vipe Desai, President and Founder of project BLUE. Now in its first full year of operation, project BLUE is set to raise $100,000 USD, all of which will go straight to the Surfrider Foundation, by giving consumers a way to help the oceans by doing something they already do. "Its not a charity. Its a plan of action."
Discovery News takes a look at the new wave in surfboard construction. New materials, such as bamboo decks & fins, linseed oil resins and UV curing, offer alternatives to the conventional toxic materials going into surfboard production.
"Surfboards of the past have been sort of surfing's dirty little secret" admits Ned McMahon – General Manager/Partner of HomeBlown US, a San Diego, CA maker of surfboard blanks. Instead, Homeblown is swapping out Swaps out toxic materials with natural products such as using biofoam, which is 50% soy, for the foam blanks.
:: Look hot in an itty bitty eco-bikini.
:: Keep cool and healthy with Green Summer Gourmet's mix of refreshing salad recipes.
:: Enlist the help of friends and family in your earth-friendly pursuits.
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Although we haven't traveled to Lebanon, we have had a Lebanese friend when touring through Syria. He told us that Lebanon was an advanced country and much different than the "time machine feeling" we were getting in Syria: It was 9 years ago, and the cars looked like they were from the 30s; people everywhere were dressed in traditional gear and it seemed that the environment was very low on the country's agenda (litter was everywhere and cars spewed fumes).
We never did get to visit Lebanon (mainly because getting a VISA would take too much time), but we have been able to...
From June 16 until 22, the state of Bahia in northern Brazil is hosting the first Billabong Surf Eco Festival. Apart from gathering some of the best surfers in the world at Praia do Forte, the festival incorporates a complete set of conferences and activities to provide information and raise awareness about environmental matters.
How about freshly “caught” fillets of condoms, a plastic surprise or Styrofoam bites? Here are a few examples of “Catch of the Day,” a guerrilla ad campaign sponsored by Surfrider Foundation to educate people at farmers’ markets about the amount and kinds of pollution dumped into our seas.
Working with the ad giant Saatchi & Saatchi, real life trash was collected from various beaches in America (the condoms are from Newport Beach, California), packaged to look like seafood and then offered at various farmers’ markets.
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