“It’s not as complicated as everyone seems to pretend it is” Melati (16 yrs) and Isabel (14 yrs) Weijsen have managed to ban the use of plastic bags on Bali. They and their Bye Bye Plastic Bag organisation are demonstrating how all of us can be useful and stand for the oceans.
For the Source2Sea mission, Merijn has teamed up with the TUDelft Science Centre, Starboard and the Zwerfinator, to build a SUP board out of litter. Read more about the Source2Sea mission!
We are the environment, our bodies and everything around us . There simply is no higher priority in our material world than our environment. Lets look after it more than ever and treasure all the trash we can catch before it infiltrates our oceans.
Dream Team rider from Japan, Tomoyasu Murabayashi recently opened a SUPkids delivery center in Hyuga, Japan. Here we catch up with him in this interview about the center, his plans, tastes and plastic in our oceans. Tell us a bit more about your SUP school… My SUP School just opened this year at Hyuga Miyazaki…
We’ve said it before – you can’t SUP or surf without a board. You can take away literally everything else – boardshorts, sunglasses, flip flops and surfing lives on. But take away the basic wave sliding vehicle, and surf culture simply collapses. When surfing started to spread globally in the early 20th century, boards were made…
The Ecoboard Project was started with one objective in mind: to be as energy efficient as possible. This starts by using raw materials that have a lower carbon footprint than those used today but with equal or improved mechanical properties. By being one of the fastest growing trees, Balsa wood could be one of the…
Honoring Earth Day this year, the environmentally conscious brand Starboard SUP, released this video of eco ambassador and Ganges SUP Shilpika Guatam who took it upon herself to stand up paddle the length of the Ganges River in India to make a statement about the environment. SOME SAY ITS PASSION. FOR SHILPIKA GUATAM, ITS PURPOSE: THE STORY…
by Anne Marie Reichman, Starboard Dream Team rider and eco ambassador. Two days ago I got a phone call; if I wanted to do an interview over the phone with Jonah Shannon; 14 yr old local surfer and teamrider of Eric “Totahsurfboard”. Jonah has helped me in the past with a beach clean up when…
Come explore what “Zanes Deep Blue” day looks like on island of Maui… as seen through the eyes of (Starboard Stand Up Paddle Surfing Team Rider / Sustainable Surf ambassador) Zane Kekoa Schweitzer – and through the language, knowledge and cultural wisdom of ancient Hawaii. Follow Zane’s footsteps from “dawn to dusk” as he roams…
This February 2017, a Watertrek crew composed of our London coordinators Mel & Paul will undertake an expedition paddling in the mountains of the Indian Himalaya to Burma’s mangroves, offering the chance to raise awareness of several environnemental issues: – The protection of mangrove and its importance to prevent global warming. The mangrove plants can recycle…