Still rising above plastics? Good. Here’s a new way to help (if you have an iPhone). There’s a new app called The Extraordinaries where organizations and non-profits are able to get the public to contribute to various causes and campaigns. For The Surfrider Foundation the Extraordinaries is being harnessed to aid in their Rise Above…
The surf session wasn’t disheartening in that the surf was bad. (It was, but I knew that before I paddled out.) What got me down was the fisherman on the pier throwing trash into the ocean (mostly plastic bags). And then the other surfers just paddling around the garbage and pretending it wasn’t there. I…
When surfing, rarely is there a day when there’s not garbage out there bobbing in the water with me – sandwich bags, chip bags, water bottles, grocery bags… I’ll pick the refuse up, curse the litterer and recycle it when I return to shore. But there is a much larger problem out there, specifically with…