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ASL: Chasing a green horizon

Surfersvillage Global Surf News, 20 July, 2009 : - - Did you get a wave this morning? How big was it? Many out? Surfers are an inquisitive bunch, but Issue 252 of Australia’s Surfing Life hints, not so subtly, that there are more pressing questions we should be asking each other.

Did you know 90% of marine creatures that once lived in our oceans are extinct? That a giant island of plastic, twice the size of NSW, has accumulated in the middle of the North Pacific? That at least ten iconic Australian waves are in imminent danger of being lost forever? That this year about 1 million surfboards will be produced, each containing materials that will never completely break-down? Scary… but true.

In Australia’s Surfing Life’s first Green Issue, these concerns, amongst many others, are broached, considered and discussed.

This isn’t surfing’s first green issue (and hopefully, it won’t be the last), but, as Australia’s Surfing Life editor Tim Fisher explains, it differs markedly from other previous attempts and is beneficial for a number of reasons. “ASL’s Green Issue has a concerted focus on the reader and aims to enable and enact change.

There are no longer any excuses for not doing our part, so with The Green Issue, we unpack the myths around surfing and the environment with an eye to helping readers think and act differently. There are no token gestures or easy credit given to those doing the bare minimum, but rather a focus on the unsung heroes of the surfing community affecting real change – those under the radar who deserve all the accolades.”

Special guest contributors, such as Tim Baker and coastal scientist Neil Lazarow, lay down the facts in easy-to-understand terms. Ground-breaking articles, such as a concise look into the environmentally unfriendly side of shaping surfboards, pull no punches in providing an honest and accurate account of the responsibility surfers have, and in many cases, aren’t upholding to Mother Nature.

An eco-friendly trip into the Javanese jungle scores waves, plus all of the regular features of Australia’s favourite surfing magazine make this a well-rounded, eye-opening and motivating issue.

Australia’s Surfing Life Issue 252 is on-sale from Wednesday July 22, 2009 and signifies the start of a greater commitment to environmentally sustainable printing methods, with regards to paper stock, inks, aluminium plates and solvents used.

About Australia’s Surfing Life: From humble back-yard beginnings in 1985, Australia’s Surfing Life (ASL) has grown into Australia’s biggest selling and most popular surf magazine now boasting eight media channels which connect ASL daily with Australian surfers of all ages and abilities. From sponsorship of surf schools and grass-root events, through to World Tour event media partnerships, high quality surf films and a mobile phone/widget breaking news service ASL is breaking new ground in surf media.

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