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Because of the ridiculousness that is ClimateGate, global warming deniers have popped up across the nation. Well, thanks to MondoMedia, they have a new mascot. Meet Mr. Pipik, the green…thing. Donning a top hat and strumming his guitar, Pipik brings some hilarity to the seriousness of global warming and the… Read the rest

Michael Pollan is an authority on food politics. He’s published five books and eleven essays on the subject. And, as a Professor of journalism at the University of California, Berkley, he knows the importance of getting his facts straight. So it’s not surprising that, moments after he stated that “A… Read the rest

The Great Lakes account for 20% of fresh water on earth. 35 million people and their livelihoods are dependent on it. But the water, as many other places on earth, is under threat by toxins, sewage and invasive species. Waterlife tells the story of the Great Lakes and the importance … Read the rest

You may have noticed that we’ve been writing a lot about industrial hemp lately. That’s because we think legalizing industrial hemp is an important issue — both for the environment and the economy. Last week we mentioned the activists and hemp industry leaders that were arrested at Drug Enforcement Agency… Read the rest

Over 30 countries around the world grow industrial hemp, including big players like China and France. Multipurpose and versatile – hemp makes its way into everything from ice cream to paint to clothing – hemp could be called the wonder resource. In North America alone, the hemp industry accounts for… Read the rest

Hemp is not only an environmentally friendly business, but it’s also a lucrative one; the Hemp Industries Association (HIA) estimates the 2008 annual retail sales of all hemp products in North America to be about $360 million. In fact, the US has the largest market for hemp products in the… Read the rest

Today, the Obama administration adopted a Bush-era salmon plan for the Columbia-Snake rivers in the Northwest. A national coalition of businesses, clean energy advocates, and fishing and conservation groups voiced grave disappointment about the decision, saying it does not do enough for endangered salmon and communities in tthe basin. Other … Read the rest

Recently, there has been a veritable &$^%* storm in the media about the baby deforming, BPA leaching uber monster Sigg. Almost everyday for the past several weeks, a new PR nightmare emerges for Sigg in the green blogosphere in the form of a 300 word “Shame on you, Sigg” blog… Read the rest

So much of the time we miss the interconnectedness of our actions. We understand our actions as they happen as events, but miss the context in which they happen. We see the event and miss the series of events that it’s part of. Or since I can’t get Aretha’s classic… Read the rest

Everything either adds to an organization’s mission or subtracts from it. A working environment is no exception… it’s just another piece of the equation.
The first time I came to the Surfrider Foundation office, years ago, I was horribly let down. I had built a certain vision of what Surfrider… Read the rest