Archive for August, 2009
Erik Johansson might not classify himself as an environmental artist, but some of his photography certainly depicts some common eco art themes, forcing us to question our own role as humans in the natural world.
Check out more of Johansson’s work at his website.… Read the rest
From Volume 3, Issue 4
America’s open spaces are a definitive part of the American spirit. Yet often our precious landscapes are endangered, caught up in legal battles that raise tensions between private enterprises and public interests.
Bargaining for Eden… Read the rest is the story of one of these battles, investigating the
We’re all about bike powered businesses at Wend. From delivering handmade organic soup to sustainable cleaning, forward looking companies are embracing bicycle transportation as a way to reduce cost and save the environment. Now one New York innovator has taken this philosophy a step further by introducing a bike-powered mobile… Read the rest
They are a rare breed. Extremely fast people who run 100 miles in less than 24 hours, racing through the world’s toughest endurance courses. They are crazy. They are awesome. And one of those crazy-awesome runners is my friend Krissy Moehl.
Krissy and her pack of American ultra-runners are in… Read the rest
I can smell fall in the air. I love this time of year– the surf gets good, and snowboarding is right around the corner. And so, since snow is on the way, I dug out some lovely snowboard wipeouts for this week’s episode of Wipeout Wednesday. WW is all about… Read the rest
It’s that time of year again… The Bicycle Transportation Alliance’s Bike Commute Challenge 2009 kicks off next week and you don’t want to miss out.
The goal of the BCC is to introduce first-time bike commuters to the fun, health, safety, and environmental benefits of commuting by bike. But even… Read the rest
Mountain unicycling — more commonly known as muni — is slowly becoming the new hot way to explore peaks. Now you and I might not think that summiting peaks atop a unicycle sounds like fun, but there are people out there that do. Like 14Fourteeners, a group of Colorado-based mountain… Read the rest
The Kiwis are looking to create the world’s first indoor, endless wave pool. I will still prefer the ocean
From 720:
The Wave Box will house the world’s first endless wave – a wave running through a channel that circles the interior of a new facility to be built in … Read the rest
Obesity is nothing to joke about — as seen by yesterday’s post on special double sized chairs in Brazil. But with society going the way that it’s going, and kids switching out play time for cheese puff time, we have to shed some light on some of the more absurd… Read the rest
This was recorded as the Guinness World Records highest slackline walk done by Christian Schou in Norway. This was done 1000m high, and quite frankly, it’s one of the crazier things I have seen in awhile.
[via: Slackline]… Read the rest
We do love a good collection of surf photography, so we were stoked to come across this set of photos of Laguna Beach taken by Eric A. Nelson.
Click on any of the photos to be taken to the full gallery.… Read the rest
The annual Dave Matthews Band concert at the Gorge amphitheater is comparable to a national-holiday for some, including me and my group of friends, who’ve frequented the labor day weekend festivities for the past four years straight. Once August hits, we start random-calling and texting each other just to say,… Read the rest
On August 11th, Brazilian big-wave surfer Maya Gabeira surfed what is now documented as the “biggest wave ridden by a woman,” in Dungeons, South Africa. In the primarily male-dominated world of monster surfing, 22-year-old Gabeira is proving herself to be one hell of a bad ass. To check out more… Read the rest
I post on a surfing forum from time to time and while looking at it this weekend I came across these pictorial gems, provided by a surf buddy of mine, Gaz. Gaz keeps a great surf and fishing blog too, called Raw Waters In Cedar. Besides blogging, Gaz is known… Read the rest
