Head over to 48 Blocks for a great little interview with Alex Klein, director of God Went Surfing With The Devil, which is featured in the latest Wend. Alex talks about why he quit a promising skate career to pursue filmmaking. 48 Blocks also has a great archive of in depth skate interviews.

Today is the first of four Fridays that we’re giving away a watch to our Friday Photo photographer, and choosing one has been difficult! But today’s watch goes to Spencer Crandall for this striking black and white photo of a tree killed by the minerals of Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park.
There are still [...]

Water is one of our most important resources but sometimes in the western world we take for granted how easily accesible it is. But the notion that we’ll never run out of water is wrong and it is imperative that we take action to protect our sources of fresh water, not leave them in the [...]

December is just around the corner and that means plenty of holiday parties. But even if you aren’t a fan of spiked egg nog, there’s a party for you in Portland: the BootsnAll 10th Anniversary Party. To celebrate ten years of travel, the BootsnAll crew is throwing a big bash, and people are coming in [...]

This has got to be the worst lion ever. Thanks again, failblog!
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Well, that’s one way to enjoy the outdoors… but it’s probably not the most environmentally friendly. But that didn’t stop Eric Scott from becoming the first man to cross Colorado’s 1,024 foot deep Royal Gorge via jetpack. Umm… congratulations?

Macedonian Opera singer Boris Trajanov (UNESCO’s 2005 Artist for Peace) has hit a high note with environmentalists across the globe by initiating the planting of 6 million trees in a single day to replace those lost by wildfires and make Macedonia “greener.”

“If Macedonia, a country of two million people, can plant six million trees, we [...]

Everyone knows it rains a lot in Portland. And if rain is one of the main symbols of Portland, another one has to be Powell’s Books; the two sort of go hand in hand, what better way to spend a rainy day then browsing through 68,000 square feet of books? But now Powell’s just might [...]

Officials in Balikpapan, Indonesia have come up with an interesting way to fight deforestation: couples must plant a tree before starting a family.
“Everyone who wants to get married or apply for a birth certificate must plant a tree,” Syahrum Syah Setia, the head of Balikpapan city’s Environmental Impact Management Agency, told Reuters.
Because of an oil [...]

If you’ve checked out the homepage today you’ll notice that things are looking a little different. We’ve been working hard to redesign the site and along with the makeover we’ve launched two new departments with a whole bunch of fresh content: iWend and Greenery.
At iWend you’ll be able to read regular columns by our global [...]