tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6373752481965720322024-02-08T11:18:52.745+11:00FRESH MULLETFRESH MULLET circa 1972 - a John Witzig photographDanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00780689179369246737noreply@blogger.comBlogger974125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-637375248196572032.post-65841839022993152092014-06-15T21:28:00.002+10:002014-06-15T21:28:52.564+10:00Research<iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/cGG5wWJX_ls" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00780689179369246737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-637375248196572032.post-3368928285689637032014-05-21T21:47:00.002+10:002014-05-21T21:47:43.738+10:00Cloudbreak Kite Tow with Reo Stevens<iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/hLP-uqBgCDM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00780689179369246737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-637375248196572032.post-70833574713438655592013-10-21T12:14:00.000+11:002013-10-21T12:14:19.431+11:00The Ocean is Broken...<header class="news-article-title clear"><h1>
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IT was the silence that made this voyage different from all of those before it.<br />
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Not the absence of sound, exactly.<br />
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The wind still whipped the sails and whistled in the rigging. The waves still sloshed against the fibreglass hull.<br />
And there were plenty of other noises: muffled thuds and bumps and scrapes as the boat knocked against pieces of debris.<br />
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What was missing was the cries of the seabirds which, on all previous similar voyages, had surrounded the boat.<br />
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The birds were missing because the fish were missing.<br />
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New research has revealed that endangered green turtles are eating plastic (that they mistake for food) at double the rate they did 25 years ago. With an estimated 80% of marine debris coming from land-based sources, global waste management – from manufacturers through to consumers - is critical to stop debris from hitting the ocean. <a href="http://www.uq.edu.au/news/index.html?article=26558">Read more...</a></div>
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It's time for Australia to introduce a national Cash for Containers scheme and tackle plastic pollution! <a href="http://www.marineconservation.org.au/petitions.php/4/tell-nsw-and-qld-to-kick-the-can">Tell our pollies to get on board here...</a></div>
Stunned Mullethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00189469132101700887noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-637375248196572032.post-35571615386457064292013-08-02T08:34:00.000+10:002013-08-02T08:37:53.887+10:00Endless Summer: How Climate Change Could Wipe Out Surfing<span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.59375px; text-transform: uppercase;">BY KILEY KROH ON AUGUST 1, 2013 AT 8:36 AM</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Trebuchet MS, Lucida Sans, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.59375px; text-transform: uppercase;">Dan Ross began surfing when he was five years old. Growing up in Australia, Ross dreamed of becoming a professional surfer. “As kids, my brother and I practically lived in the ocean at our local beaches and experienced its beauty on so many levels.” Twenty-five years later and now a member of the ASP World Tour, Ross travels the world for surfing and he’s seeing the dramatic toll climate change has begun to take — threatening coastal communities and the sport he loves.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Trebuchet MS, Lucida Sans, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.59375px; text-transform: uppercase;">“In Australia, I’ve noticed higher tide lines and extreme beach erosion; its apparent all along the east coast … In America, I’ve seen places where houses are literally falling into the sea and you can really see the effects in California at Malibu and Point Dume.” And Ross says these changes are even more frightening for surf destinations such as the Maldives — with its highest point only 2 meters above sea level, it is currently at risk of being the first island nation to be submerged. “What would they do?” he wonders.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Trebuchet MS, Lucida Sans, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.59375px; text-transform: uppercase;">Both the sport and culture of surfing are increasingly at risk due to the effects of climate change. Quite simply, surfing is reliant on healthy oceans and coasts. So as climate change drives fundamental changes — sea-level rise, ocean warming and acidification — the result could be a great readjusting, and potential loss, of the world’s surf communities.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Trebuchet MS, Lucida Sans, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.59375px; text-transform: uppercase;">Chad Nelsen, environmental director for the Surfrider Foundation, a grassroots network of surfers in eighteen countries around the globe, explains that the world’s surf spots are very sensitive to change. While surfers are often the most attuned to the conditions that impact their local waves, many of the climate-related shifts are slow-moving and difficult to see. A lifelong surfer himself, Nelsen says he’s been going to the shore at Laguna Beach since 1975 and hasn’t really noticed a perceptible difference, despite what he knows is happening beneath the surface.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Trebuchet MS, Lucida Sans, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.59375px; text-transform: uppercase;">“The problem with climate change is that we’re not perceiving it as incremental. These things will accelerate, even if we stop all carbon emissions today,” Nelsen says. His biggest fear is that “by the time it starts accelerating to a speed where we can perceive the change, it’s going to be too late and we’ll be suffering major consequences on the coasts.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Trebuchet MS, Lucida Sans, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.59375px; text-transform: uppercase;">Another dangerous byproduct of burning fossil fuels, ocean acidification threatens to upend the entire balance of the oceans and wipe out some of the world’s premier surf destinations in the process. As we pump increasing amounts of carbon pollution into the atmosphere, it’s not just wreaking havoc on air quality. The oceans are the world’s largest carbon sinks, absorbing one-quarter of the carbon dioxide emitted every year. The more carbon dioxide absorbed, the more acidic the water becomes. As a result, plankton that form the base of the ocean food web, and shellfish like oysters and clams, no longer have the calcium carbonate needed to form their shells and exoskeletons, which poses a tremendous risk to all marine life.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Trebuchet MS, Lucida Sans, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.59375px; text-transform: uppercase;">The oceans are also the primary source of heat absorption for the planet, and analyses from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, show that more than 90 percent of the warming that has happened on Earth over the past 50 years has occurred in the ocean.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Trebuchet MS, Lucida Sans, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.59375px; text-transform: uppercase;">Combined, these warmer and more acidic waters also spell catastrophe for corals, which also rely on calcium carbonate to survive. Coral reefs are fragile, exceedingly sensitive to variations in chemistry and with a narrow and specific temperature window in which they can survive. When the effects of ocean warming and acidification are added to marine pollution and overfishing, scientists expect 90 percent of all coral reef ecosystems to be threatened with extinction by 2030.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Trebuchet MS, Lucida Sans, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.59375px; text-transform: uppercase;">Since coral reefs produce many of the world’s finest surf breaks, loss of reefs has serious implications for surf spots across the globe. Acidification and warming are already taking their toll on iconic ecosystems and the world-class surfing they produce. “The Great Barrier Reef in Australia has been sadly affected by this,” says Ross. “If the coral reefs and surrounding environments die, then the magic feeling of those surf breaks will die.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Trebuchet MS, Lucida Sans, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.59375px; text-transform: uppercase;">A recent report from NOAA’s Climate Program Office estimates that the effect of melting glaciers and ice sheets, combined with the thermal expansion of the ocean, will result in sea-level rise up to 6.6 feet in the coming century. According to Kevin Whilden, a geologist by training and co-founder of the nonprofit organization Sustainable Surf, “this will result in the loss and destruction of many surf breaks world-wide, because while projected sea level rise happens on a 100-year timescale, the geologic processes that form surf breaks happen on a 1000-year timescale.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Trebuchet MS, Lucida Sans, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.59375px; text-transform: uppercase;">For surfers, the contour of a wave is as important as its size, and the way a wave builds and breaks is determined mainly by the shape of the ocean floor as it meets the shoreline. As sea levels rise, it will change where and how the waves break. As Pacific Standard explains, “waves that break at sand-bottomed surf spots like Huntington Beach in Southern California, or the Outer Banks in North Carolina, are likely to retain their same basic form as they move toward the land. But waves at surf spots that lack a dynamic bottom — where they break over cobblestone, like at Rincon, or coral reef, like G-Land, in Java — could change significantly.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Trebuchet MS, Lucida Sans, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.59375px; text-transform: uppercase;">As climate change drives more intense and destructive storms, coastal communities are increasingly vulnerable to storm surges, coastal flooding, erosion and other damaging impacts. As these events, and our response to them, permanently alter coastlines, they threaten to wipe out popular surf spots around the globe. Superstorm Sandy, the monster tropical storm that devastated large swaths of coastline along New York and New Jersey in late 2012, signified a ‘new normal’ of climate change-fueled storms. As sea-level rise leads to larger storm surges and higher sea surface temperatures bring more rainfall, storms like Sandy will continue to grow in severity.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Trebuchet MS, Lucida Sans, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.59375px; text-transform: uppercase;">A commonly used metaphor to explain this intensification is the use of steroids in baseball. Eric Pooley, senior vice president of the Environmental Defense Fund, told Bloomberg Businessweek in its post-Sandy issue, “We can’t say that steroids caused any one home run by Barry Bonds, but steroids sure helped him hit more and hit them farther. Now we have weather on steroids.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Trebuchet MS, Lucida Sans, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.59375px; text-transform: uppercase;">A new study by Kerry Emanuel, a leading hurricane researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, finds that climate change will increase both the frequency and intensity of tropical cyclones, while noting the relationship between global climate and hurricane activity is “only beginning to be understood.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Trebuchet MS, Lucida Sans, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.59375px; text-transform: uppercase;">While stronger storms may seem like an initial boon for surfers due to the bigger waves that often result, the long-term effects of this shift could permanently alter or erase many surf spots. Unlike the reef-formed breaks in Australia and Hawaii, surf spots along the Atlantic coast of the U.S. depend on sand bars and beaches to create the waves.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Trebuchet MS, Lucida Sans, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.59375px; text-transform: uppercase;">Megastorms like Sandy will cause major erosion and sand displacement in coastal areas. While these processes in themselves can alter surf spots, surfers worry that the greatest potential impact stems from our response to these extreme events. As Nelsen explains, “If we respond to coastal erosion events with indiscriminate armoring and beach fill, not only are we likely to lose many of our favorite surf spots we are going to end up more vulnerable to future storms.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Trebuchet MS, Lucida Sans, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.59375px; text-transform: uppercase;">As sea levels rise and coastal storms grow more powerful, current surf breaks all over the globe could disappear when the water becomes too deep over them and hard defenses built to shield towns and infrastructure block the waves from shifting to a changing coastline. Only where natural buffers, such as wetlands and dunes, are utilized to protect coastlines and allow to flow over the land will new breaks possibly appear.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Trebuchet MS, Lucida Sans, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.59375px; text-transform: uppercase;">Surfers can be natural ambassadors for communicating the risks of climate change, but it’s not a widely discussed topic within the community. Ross speculates the slow-moving nature of climate change is part of the reason it is not a front-burner issue for many surfers. “If there was a huge oil spill and local beaches were affected, surfers would band together to instantly to solve the problem,” he says. “I don’t feel that this is the case for climate change, but the stakes are much higher if we don’t act with urgency.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Trebuchet MS, Lucida Sans, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.59375px; text-transform: uppercase;">Noting the increased immediacy of climate change, companies like Volcom, a major surfing and snowboarding brand, are working to raise awareness and educate their consumers. Derek Sabori, Director of Sustainability for Volcom, said the company is making a concerted effort to incorporate climate change into its business model. “At one point carbon offsets felt out of reach, but the more we learn about permanent high tide effect, acidification, loss of reefs, diversity — its becoming something that we know needs to be addressed.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Trebuchet MS, Lucida Sans, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.59375px; text-transform: uppercase;">Drawing on the success of Protect Our Winters, a network of professional winter sports athletes serving as spokespeople for action on climate change, surfing activists see tremendous potential for engaging their community. Grassroots organizations like Surfrider and Sustainable Surf are working to use surfing as an on-ramp to discussing these complex, and potentially charged, issues.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Trebuchet MS, Lucida Sans, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.59375px; text-transform: uppercase;">“We’re trying to be really sensitive to the fact that surfing is a luxury — it’s not necessarily the driver of coastal adaptation but an important way of understanding the problem, just like skiing,” notes Nelsen. “Surfing is driving a key component of the coastal economy and surfers are the iconic beach-goers.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Trebuchet MS, Lucida Sans, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.59375px; text-transform: uppercase;">Ross, an ambassador for the environmentally-focused apparel company Patagonia, agrees that empowering his fellow surfers can pay huge dividends in broader efforts to move the dial on climate change. “Surfers are the natural guardians and spokespersons of the sea … We base our lives in and around it. Surfers must be among the first to lead by example to create the critical mass of change that will inspire others to look after the ocean — our playground.”</span></span></div>
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/08/01/2164691/endless-summer-how-climate-change-could-wipe-out-surfing/">http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/08/01/2164691/endless-summer-how-climate-change-could-wipe-out-surfing/</a>Stunned Mullethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00189469132101700887noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-637375248196572032.post-46016742899252589882013-07-27T06:40:00.001+10:002013-07-27T06:40:08.589+10:00Dan Malloy - Slow is Fast.Dan and his friends Kellen and Kanoa went on a two month bike trip down the coast of california, spending time in the waves but also with farmers, sign painters, wood workers, permaculturists, butchers, knife makers, and other traditional craftspeople.
Anything Dan does is cool :) .. Such a legend.
<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/70200409" width="500" height="281" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe>Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00780689179369246737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-637375248196572032.post-56951696074842549092013-07-23T05:30:00.001+10:002013-07-23T05:59:23.208+10:001 Wave - Mark Mathews June 2013Mark and i debated for a while on this trip to Tahiti, he had to fly through L.A to get there and i was just scared of surfing it that big.
The main thing that kept coming up was.. it takes is just one crazy wave and its all worth it.
Here's the 1 wave... The view looking out is something you'll remember for ever.
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It's been a massive month for climate action, and a massive month for GetUp members. Between the rallies, campaign and major policy announcements, there's a lot to catch up on.
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<a href="https://www.getup.org.au/campaigns/climate-action-now/where-were-at/the-latest-on-climate?t=dXNlcmlkPTExMzU1MTMsZW1haWxpZD0yMTg1#.UekZcrUzhX0">https://www.getup.org.au/campaigns/climate-action-now/where-were-at/the-latest-on-climate?</a>Stunned Mullethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00189469132101700887noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-637375248196572032.post-91472689307752628862013-07-19T10:17:00.000+10:002013-07-19T10:17:10.130+10:00Did you feel that..? <br />
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<span style="background-color: black;">That was what members of the Delaware Bar and Court of Chancery called a 'seismic shift' in U.S. corporate law when yesterday Delaware Governor Jack Markell enacted benefit corporation legislation.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;">Delaware is the 18th state (plus D.C.!) to pass benefit corp legislation, but the one that matters most to business leaders and investors who seek access to venture capital, private equity, and public capital markets. Building a global movement to redefine success in business requires capital for those businesses to scale. Delaware is a big step toward achieving our collective vision.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=36241904&msgid=367297&act=EIQW&c=759258&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.delaware.gov%2F2013%2F07%2F17%2Fgovernor-markell-signs-public-benefit-corporation-legislation%2F" style="color: red;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e53131;"><u>Read</u></span></a> Governor Markell's press release</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=36241904&msgid=367297&act=EIQW&c=759258&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DAUCTL_uV0GI%26feature%3Dyoutu.be" style="color: red;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e53131;"><u>Watch</u></span></a> remarks at the signing from Albert Wenger of Union Square Ventures</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=36241904&msgid=367297&act=EIQW&c=759258&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fmedia%2Fset%2F%3Fset%3Da.10151529666202546.1073741834.23516382545%26type%3D1" style="color: red;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e53131;"><u>See</u></span></a> some photos of how the day unfolded at the signing, the event at the World Economic Forum, and at the post-WEF celebration. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=36241904&msgid=367297&act=EIQW&c=759258&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fsites%2Fskollworldforum%2F2013%2F07%2F17%2Ftoday-marks-a-tipping-point-in-the-evolution-of-capitalism%2F" style="color: red;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e53131;"><u>Read</u></span></a> B Lab's take published by Forbes and Skoll World Forum -- ‘The Evolution of Capitalism’</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;">A huge thank you to all whose ideas and hard work made this historic moment possible.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;">Now for the hard part: adoption! More on that soon:)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;">Andrew, Bart, Jay, and the rest of the B Lab team</span></div>
Stunned Mullethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00189469132101700887noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-637375248196572032.post-71706041699821659612013-07-15T12:33:00.003+10:002013-07-23T05:11:44.604+10:00PATAGONIA LEGACY<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/68150464?" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe>
Stunned Mullethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00189469132101700887noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-637375248196572032.post-22249154259526242102013-07-14T15:55:00.000+10:002013-07-14T15:55:58.353+10:00Deep Water - Episode 7 - Fiji<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="209" mozallowfullscreen="" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/69040350" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="500"></iframe> <br />
<a href="http://vimeo.com/69040350">Deep Water, Part 7 – Fiji</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/patagoniavideo">Patagonia</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #71767a; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px;">Spring means the South Pacific starting to churn out swell, and Kohl Christensen and Dan Ross head to Fiji to score pumping Cloudbreak pits in the seventh episode of the Deep Water series. Other surfers include Aca Ravulo Lalabalavu, Gadiel Hottenstein and Patagonia kite ambassador Reo Stevens. For earlier episodes, see the Deep Water page here: <a href="http://deepwatersurf.com/">deepwatersurf.com</a>.</span>Stunned Mullethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00189469132101700887noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-637375248196572032.post-33109821933519372012013-07-13T15:00:00.000+10:002013-07-13T15:00:00.052+10:00Excuse the Roach II<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" mozallowfullscreen="" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/68591714" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="500"></iframe> <br />
<a href="http://vimeo.com/68591714">Excuse the Roach '2'</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/andrewgough">Andrew Gough</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.Stunned Mullethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00189469132101700887noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-637375248196572032.post-12944312112080097492013-07-12T18:00:00.000+10:002013-07-12T19:12:25.492+10:00Surfrider Foundation<img src="http://www.surfrider.org/images/uploads/blog/surfrider_barrel.jpg" /><br />
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The Surfrider Foundation Australia's Waves campaign was developed at <a href="http://theinspirationroom.com/daily/tag/arnold-furnace/" style="color: #0f97b9; text-decoration: none;">Arnold Furnace</a> by executive creative director Tom Spicer, creatives Cameron Brown, Luke Duggan, James Galli Barrow, designer Darren Cole, producers Chris Hulsman and Warwick Nicholson, working with Surfrider Foundation Australia director Brendan Donahue.</div>
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<a href="http://www.surfrider.org.au/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">http://www.surfrider.org.au/</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.kleankanteen.com/products/special/one_bottle_for_life.php" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">1 BOTTLE FOR LIFE</a></div>
Stunned Mullethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00189469132101700887noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-637375248196572032.post-14206142431640133202013-07-12T15:00:00.000+10:002013-07-12T15:00:09.492+10:00Excuse the Roach...<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" mozallowfullscreen="" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/59460105" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="500"></iframe> <br />
<a href="http://vimeo.com/59460105">Excuse the Roach</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/andrewgough">Andrew Gough</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.Stunned Mullethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00189469132101700887noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-637375248196572032.post-77048894738258018952013-07-11T17:55:00.000+10:002013-07-12T09:13:30.495+10:00Surfrider Foundation<img src="http://www.surfrider.org/images/uploads/blog/surfrider_no_hand_barrel.jpg" /><br />
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<a href="http://www.surfrider.org/jims-blog/entry/the-three-best-surfing-ads-of-the-year">http://www.surfrider.org/jims-blog/entry/the-three-best-surfing-ads-of-the-year</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.kleankanteen.com/products/special/one_bottle_for_life.php">1 BOTTLE FOR LIFE</a>Stunned Mullethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00189469132101700887noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-637375248196572032.post-12960231463842559822013-07-11T17:32:00.001+10:002013-07-11T17:32:54.366+10:00EVO Revisited<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" mozallowfullscreen="" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/68258158" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="500"></iframe> <br />
<a href="http://vimeo.com/68258158">Evo Revisited</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/patagoniavideo">Patagonia</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
After 40 years an original 1968 Evolution board finds its way back into the hands of its creator, Wayne Lynch. Passing the board along to the youth of today, Belinda Baggs rides the board following the footsteps of Wayne. The power of Wayne 'the fish' Lynch and Bindy's graceful 'dancer' approach set a contrast leading onto a new remake based off the original design and modern theories of today.
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<a href="http://www.patagonia.com.au/journal/2013/evo-revisited/">http://www.patagonia.com.au/journal/2013/evo-revisited/</a>Stunned Mullethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00189469132101700887noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-637375248196572032.post-56184534808874631322013-07-09T11:06:00.000+10:002013-07-09T11:16:03.217+10:00Choice.!?<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="420" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/VO6XEQIsCoM" width="560"></iframe>
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Stunned Mullethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00189469132101700887noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-637375248196572032.post-17068863315852352732013-07-06T17:11:00.001+10:002013-07-09T10:55:30.837+10:00Surfrider Foundation <img src="http://www.surfrider.org/images/uploads/blog/surfrider_underwater.jpg" /><br />
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Surfers feel pollution. It's that simple...<br />
Here are 10 easy things you can do to reduce your 'plastic footprint' and help keep plastics out of the marine environment:<br />
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1. Choose to reuse when it comes to shopping bags and bottled water. Cloth bags and metal or glass reusable bottles are available locally at great prices.<br />
2. Refuse single-serving packaging, excess packaging, straws and other 'disposable' plastics. Carry reusable utensils in your purse, backpack or car to use at bbq's, potlucks or take-out restaurants.<br />
3. Reduce everyday plastics such as sandwich bags and juice cartons by replacing them with a reusable lunch bag/box that includes a thermos.<br />
4. Bring your to-go mug with you to the coffee shop, smoothie shop or restaurants that let you use them. A great wat to reduce lids, plastic cups and/or plastic-lined cups.<br />
5. Go digital! No need for plastic cds, dvds and jewel cases when you can buy your music and videos online.<br />
6. Seek out alternatives to the plastic items that you rely on.<br />
7. Recycle. If you must use plastic, try to choose #1 (PETE) or #2 (HDPE), which are the most commonly recycled plastics. Avoid plastic bags and polystyrene foam as both typically have very low recycling rates.<br />
8. Volunteer at a beach cleanup. Surfrider Foundation <a href="http://www.surfrider.org/chapters" style="color: #0f97b9; text-decoration: none;">Chapters</a> often hold cleanups monthly or more frequently.<br />
9. Support plastic bag bans, polystyrene foam bans and bottle recycling bills.<br />
10. Spread the word. Talk to your family and friends about why it is important to Rise Above Plastics!</div>
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The Surfrider Foundation Australia's Waves campaign was developed at <a href="http://theinspirationroom.com/daily/tag/arnold-furnace/" style="color: #0f97b9; text-decoration: none;">Arnold Furnace</a> by executive creative director Tom Spicer, creatives Cameron Brown, Luke Duggan, James Galli Barrow, designer Darren Cole, producers Chris Hulsman and Warwick Nicholson, working with Surfrider Foundation Australia director Brendan Donahue.</div>
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Photography by Zac Noyle and Daniel Fryer was retouched at Cream Studios.</div>
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<a href="http://www.surfrider.org.au/">http://www.surfrider.org.au/</a></div>
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<br />Stunned Mullethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00189469132101700887noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-637375248196572032.post-3450565524979694582013-07-05T09:37:00.000+10:002013-07-05T09:37:15.595+10:00America's National Wonder... Plastic..!<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/GLaImyt-gP8" width="560"></iframe>Bottled water corporations are using our parks as a billboard and
concession stand for a product that is anything but environmentally
friendly. Tell the U.S. National Park Service to tell the bottled water
industry to take a hike! <br /><br />Take action to ban single-use, disposable water bottles in our National Parks: <a class="yt-uix-redirect-link" dir="ltr" href="http://act.storyofstuff.org/page/s/make-our-parks-bottled-water-free" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="http://act.storyofstuff.org/page/s/make-our-parks-bottled-water-free">http://act.storyofstuff.org/page/s/ma...</a><br />
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Buy a reuseable bottle at <a href="http://www.onebottleforlife.com/">onebottleforlife.com </a>
Stunned Mullethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00189469132101700887noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-637375248196572032.post-11628482273211187472013-06-18T05:41:00.001+10:002013-06-18T05:47:11.088+10:00Daft Punk - Instant Crush<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/DZk0acgfUTI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
'I listened to your problems,
Now listen to mine'
Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00780689179369246737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-637375248196572032.post-56085287890793575572013-06-13T11:54:00.000+10:002013-06-13T11:54:00.124+10:00FIRST FLUSH...<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" mozallowfullscreen="" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/66343097?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&color=d03810" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="560"></iframe>
First Flush
Ben Kay Santa Monica High school teacher and coach of Team Marine documents the problem of single use plastics and litter at the Pico-Cantor Storm Drain in Santa Monica, CA.
Heal the Bay’s report card found that Los Angeles has the worst beach quality grades in the state.
Film by Jeneene Chatowsky
<a href="http://facebook.com/PlasticSeasDocumentary">facebook.com/PlasticSeasDocumentary</a><br />
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Buy a reusable bottle at <a href="http://www.kleankanteen.com/products/special/one_bottle_for_life.php">1 Bottle For Life</a>Stunned Mullethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00189469132101700887noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-637375248196572032.post-50151181055789113552013-06-12T11:38:00.000+10:002013-06-12T12:21:47.392+10:00Plastic SEAS... Official Trailer<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" mozallowfullscreen="" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/65569968?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&color=d03810" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="560"></iframe>
As population booms, environments degrade, and pollution runs rampant, the human species must come to terms with their impact upon this Earth. Plastic SEAS is a film exploring the connection between plastic pollution, the seas, and human health. We hope through this film others may begin to change their habits for a healthier and more sustainable future.<br />
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