Environment

The Majestic Plastic Bag

23 / 08 / 2010

A moving wildlife mockumentary about one of the most common species on Earth right now, the plastic bag. Made for Heal The Bay and circulated by Rise Above Plastics it has excellent commentary by Jeremy Irons.

Motivocean – SAS Beach Clean Tour, this week

16 / 08 / 2010

AUGUST BEACH CLEAN TOUR

This August, Surfers Against Sewage, in association with the Quiksilver Foundation & myGames (powered by v), will be hitting the road with the biggest beach clean tour in our history. Since 1994, the volume of marine litter on UK beaches has increased by 146%* and SAS is helping combat this tide line [...]

The Scales Fall Off

2 / 08 / 2010

This is worth reading as we head into the Slime Age. The full article appears here. There’s also a video below from ‘The End of the Line’, an in depth look at where fishing is at. (There’s a clue in the title).
The Scales Fall Off
Is there any hope for our overfished oceans?
by Elizabeth Kolbert
The [...]

Hawaii bans shark fins – first in the world

25 / 07 / 2010

Photo by Tom Wielenmann
We may fear them for some pretty good reasons, but sharks have more reason to fear us. The daily, hourly, unceasing murder of sharks around the world – much of it via longline fishing techniques which use 5+-mile-long fishing lines with many thousands of hooks per line – have led to a [...]

Brian Skerry’s subaquatic perspective

18 / 07 / 2010

Veteran underwater photographer, Brian Skerry’s firsthand report on how things are going down there in the big blue. The news isn’t good, but it isn’t all bad either. And the images are out of this world.
Watch, and pass it on to influential friends.

SAS Barefoot Wine Beach Cleans

5 / 07 / 2010

Surfers Against Sewage’s (SAS) beach clean crew is joining forces with Barefoot Wines again this summer for the 3rd instalment of our popular
‘Barefoot Friendly’ beach clean tour. We’ll be visiting 5 beaches across England and Wales between 28th July and 1st August to make sure they are as clean as possible for all to enjoy.
We are calling for [...]

Google Earth Hero: Project Kaisei

31 / 05 / 2010

Our Today is Forever

22 / 05 / 2010

Sorry to pass on bad news – totally uncool for youth sports media, I know – but this floated in from Rise Above Plastic and although it’s emotive and doesn’t offer solutions, it’s powerful. In fact, be warned, it’s downright gnarly.
But it shows how screwed this oil>plastic>trash loop we’re stuck in really is.
Pass it on [...]

Surfrider: Offshore Drilling is Not The Answer – Restore the Moratorium

30 / 04 / 2010

The tragic and devastating oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is a stark reminder that offshore oil drilling is not the answer.
The Deepwater Horizon rig that exploded and sank has spilled millions of gallons of oil into the ecologically rich waters in the Gulf of Mexico and continues to gush 210,000 gallons of oil into the sea [...]

Welcome to the Plastic Beach

30 / 04 / 2010

Speaking of plastic beaches … here are two very different links that both relate:
… an excellent BBC film about a beach in Hawaii.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8639769.stm
And here’s an audio preview of the new The Gorrillaz album, Plastic Beach …
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2010/mar/01/gorillaz-plastic-beach