“๐ ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฏ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฐ๐๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฐ๐๐ญ๐๐ซ ๐ฐ๐ซ๐๐ฉ๐ฌ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ ๐ฆ๐, ๐๐ฆ๐๐ซ๐๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฆ๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐จ๐๐ฒ.” Zach Manon first surfed Lake Michigan in 2015 at a place lake surfers sometimes refer to as, “the Malibu of the Midwest.” Back in the late ’80s, Zach’s mother was stoked on windsurfing the lake. So stoked that she very […]
Imogen Barneaud always dreamed of living like a hippie.ย As a child in the seventies, Imi’s parents introduced her to a nomadic lifestyle. By the age of 11, she had already moved back and forth from the UK to France—twice. ย At 17, the movie, “Point Break” flooded Imi’s brain with visions of waves. She went surfing […]
๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ฆ๐๐ณ๐จ๐ง ๐๐๐ข๐ง๐๐จ๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐, “๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ง๐ ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐ญ๐ก”, ๐ง๐จ๐ซ ๐๐จ๐๐ฌ ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐๐ ๐๐% ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ฅ๐’๐ฌ ๐จ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ง. But, do you know what is? Macroalgae, which produces over 70% of the world’s oxygen. This includes kelp forests, like those located along the California coastline. Kelp forests provide habitat and food for over 700 species […]
From the river’s edge, Janina Zeitler steps onto her surfboard. ย The standing wave of the Eisbach river rapidly carries her nearly fifty-feet to the other side of the canal. ย She glides to the top of the waist-high wave, lays her backhand into the flowing rapids, and rips a swooping front-side cutback—spraying an eager photographer, who […]
Angie grew up with a passion for nature; caring for every little creature that walked across her path and spending as much time in the garden with her mother as possible. Tending to the environment in front of her has always been a way of life. “I really believe that by being in nature you […]
Surf at your own peril. Heavy rain spatters against contaminated city streets, which are designed to avoid flooding by directing all stormwater toward the ocean. ย The filthy detritus carries with it a host of insidious bacteria, trash, petroleum pollutants, metals, toxins, and viruses as it flushes curbs, sidewalks, gutters, creeks, and rivers down through drainage […]
“Stop making goals. ย Instead put your dreams on the horizon and chase them every day. ย You’ll find a new meaning of success.” Ryan Minarik used to have a corporate job full of meetings, schedules, and deadlines. ย As a sophomore at Arizona State University, he founded an audio brand called, BOOM by Polk. ย Being the lead […]
Summertime. ย San Diego. ย They’re all around you… You paddle out into the lineup at your favorite local surf-break seeking to shred some waves. ย You give a head nod to a familiar face then throw a shaka to that one dude whose name you don’t know but you recognize because he’s always in the water—and he […]
8 million metric tons of plasticsย enter our ocean every year on top of the 150 million metric tons (1 metric ton = 2205 pounds) of plastics that currently circulate our sea. ย That’s equivalent to dumping one city garbage truck full of plastic in our oceanย every minute of every day for an entire year. ย From […]
