Cigarette Butts and the Ocean
It’s a little known fact that the biggest pollutant to hit the oceans isn’t those plastic bags from your local supermarket, or oil from the Exxon Valdez or brown trout from your local sewer, it’s CIGARETTE BUTTS. If you’re a surfer who smokes, well, you should quit. But if you’re in town, and you see [...]
Surfer gives up surfing too early
Well that just sucks. Saw this on Craigslist Newport beach the other day. Land lover indeed. It’s a sign of the end of summer. Poor ex-surfer gets frustrated at a sport that requires a serious commitment to fail, failure, fail again, can’t paddle fast enough, pearling and other general kookiness. But man when you get [...]
To Pee or Not to Pee: That is the Question
To pee or not to pee: that is the question;
Whether ’tis warmer in the lineup to suffer
The stink and yellow of our own urine,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To shiver: to freeze;
No more; and by with a quick piss we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, ’tis a [...]
Twilight’s Edward Cullen fights new LNG facilities and dirty beaches
Yes, that’s right! Twilight’s own Edward Cullen has shown up to fight proposed Liquid Natural Gas facilities in Long Island, New York. Further, he’s taking his celeb creds on the beach to pick up litter and point out just how big the problem really is. Click here link for the full photo essay (which is [...]
Surfing an eco-friendly wave of green.
The foam board revolution has been hailed one of the grandest changes in the surfboard’s history since the invention of the fin. But after many decades of buying and using these surfboards, many of our eco-conscious brethren have realized that they have been hypocrites. We needed to change the materials used in shaping [...]
Standup Paddle Magazine launches: surfers everywhere puke a little
Yep. It’s true. As announced over at SurfersVillage.com, the surfing world has put out another magazine for us self respecting surfers not to buy. Standup Paddle Magazine launched it’s virgin issue this month, ushering in a whole new error of anti-cool. While surfers the world over puke and laugh with disgust, [...]
Southern California: Paradise Lost
Perhaps this isn’t a myth, especially if you surf in Southern California, but Southern California isn’t what its all cracked up to be. Although the water is generally pleasant and warm, and the weather is always around 72 degrees, the Southern California beach paradise myth ends there.
Now, I want to say from the very beginning [...]
I like my surfing lifestyle to be smoke free…
… so I guess I just might buy stuff from this guy from now on. When buying from this guy, I am assured that the gear he is selling is smoke-free! What more could an underage goody-goody-two-shoes ask for? And yes, I really care what kind of environment my future gear has [...]
British Columbia to San Diego Road Trip Pt. 4: Point Conception
On the cusp between Central and Southern California, this spot is a little off the beaten path, and most frequently visited by seniors with 50 foot motorhomes, but this serene little slice of California coastline is protected by the state and sticks further into the Pacific than just about anywhere else. With Vandenburg Air Force base [...]
Met up with Yvon Chouinard at Patagonia
I met up with Yvon Chouinard and his crew from Patagonia yesterday morning. They rock. Chouinard was really talking it up about One Percent for the Planet, which is a group of companies that are donating 1% of their sales (sales, not profits - that’s a big difference!) to over one thousand environmental organizations. Nicely [...]
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