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Sandy slammed shops get help from Rusty

21 December, 2012 : - INDUSTRY: Rusty donated 1000 custom 'Right Coast Relief' tees to East Coast surf shops severely affected by Hurricane Sandy. Each shop received a full size run of the custom designed tee representing the impacted regions. The donated tees retail for $22 each with 100% of the proceeds going …
Kepa Acero on surfari to Antarctica

21 December, 2012 : - TRAVEL: Freesurfer Kepa Acero will be on board Pakea Bizkaia in Ushuaia (Argentina) next January 4. In case he succeeds, Kepa Acero will be the first European surfing a wave in the frozen continent. In 2000, two Americans enlisted in an expedition with the only objective of surfi…
21:12 :12: Winter Solstice or End of the World?

20 December, 2012: - BIG BANG: The solstice mark s the beginning of winter in the Northern Hemisphere and summer in the Southern Hemisphere. The precise moment of the 2012 solstice will be 21 December 2012 at 11h12 UTC. The 2012 December solstice occurs on the speculated date for 'the end of the world'. Scenarios sug…
Used Bali tires reborn as sandal soles

19 December, 2012 : - INDUSTRY: Each year, more than 1 billion waste tires are thrown into landfills worldwide. Indosole inspires a lifestyle of resourceful creation through footwear made with re-purposed tires. In 2008 two Californians (Faye and Kyle) took an influential trip to Bali, Indonesia. While there, th…
Bali sees shift in environmental ideology

18 December, 2012 : - ENVIRONMENT: At Kuta Beach in Bali this morning, CEO SEA Paul Hutson from Quiksilver Indonesia, Business Services Director Bruce Waterfield from Coca-Cola Amatil Indonesia, and EVP Heriyanto Putra from Garuda Indonesia came together to sign an MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) that signals anoth…
Wealth of Waves: Gold Coast gets visionary

14 December, 2012 : - ENVIRONMENT: The Gold Coast surfing community and organisations have this week united to form an historic first step toward a city-wide ‘Surf Management Plan’ under a newly-formed ‘Gold Coast Surfing Council’. The Gold Coast is hosting the Global Surf Cities Conferen…
World's largest shark sanctuary created

13 December, 2012 : - SHARKS: The South Pacific Cook Islands have declared a 1.9 million-sq-km sanctuary, contiguous with one established last week by neighbouring French Polynesia. This now sees a ban on shark fishing and possession or sale of shark products in an area now totalling 6.7 million sq km, or nearly…
Idea of Aussie beach ministry gains traction

13 December, 2012 : - ENVIRONMENT: Gold Coast author says the Federal Government should create a beach ministry. Brad Farmer raised the idea with Tourism Minister Martin Ferguson. Mr Farmer says the coast contributes enough to deserve a dedicated minister. 'You've just got to do the sums,' he said. 'If the mining ind…
Up plastic creek without a paddle...

12 December, 2012 : - ENVIRONMENT: Captain Carlos Macias a local waterman now with a 9 inch beard will be sitting in a hair stylist chair for the first time in over a year after protesting not to cut his hair or shave until he collected 1 metric ton of plastics from South Florida waterways. The event will take p…
Lake Superior dishes out snow, surf

11 December, 2012 : - SUP: This weekend’s snowstorm made for some good waves on Lake Superior. It was enough for one Minnesotan to drive all the way from Nisswa to Duluth for some of that action. Stand up paddle boarder Evan Lawrence sent WCCO some photos. Lawrence says he saw four other surfers at a spot …
Owen helps efforts to clean up Uluwatu

10 December, 2012 : - ENVIRONMENT: Professional surfer Owen Wright has joined forces with his Major sponsor Rip Curl, in an effort to help clean-up Bali’s iconic surf spot, Uluwatu, by donating a surf board to be auctioned off to raise funds for the Eco Surf Rescue Uluwatu Community project at his long time fav…
Robot completes 9,000 mile Pacific journey

7 December, 2012 : - TECHNOLOGY: U.S. based Liquid Robotics announced the first Pacific Crossing (PacX) Wave Glider, Papa Mau, completed its 9,000 nautical mile scientific journey across the Pacific Ocean to set a new world record for the longest distance traveled by an autonomous vehicle. Throu…
Surf management hot topic on Gold Coast

7 December, 2012 : - WAVES: Join surfing groups from across the Gold Coast as we discuss the logistics of a city- wide surf management plan. Dan Ware from Griffith Uni will be presenting on the topic of 'Protecting & Enhancing Surf Amenity.' At the end of the forum, we will sign a formal pet…