Starboard sustainability team member Céline attended the Global Waves Conference 2018 in Santa Cruz, CA amongst 300 other attendees. Here’s the sum up: 6 Take-Home Messages. This conference gathered leading organizations focused on ocean conservation such as Save the Waves, Surfrider International, Surfers Against Sewage, Sustainable Surf & Parley for the Oceans (two of Starboard’s…
We’re launching a new Deep Blue Interview series with the riders, asking them about their #DeepBlueLifestyle. Deep Blue Life = engaged and aware ocean advocates, taking action to protect the health and the future of our environment, and dedicated to a more ocean-friendly way of life. Boujmaa Guilloul speaks up about his Deep Blue…
Starboard has been working with Trash Hero for a few years now – acting as a centre for the Bangkok chapter. We do weekly clean-ups, eco-bricks and support their Bottles and Bags campaign. What has made the Trash Hero Bangkok chapter unique are Starboard’s paddleboard clean-ups. We pick up trash from the local waterways around…
Calling all ocean advocates! Starboard is looking for the newest addition to our environmental team. Would you like to see a better, healthier planet? If you want to see change happen, you only need to look to yourself. If you think one person can’t make a difference, then this job is not for you. But…
Cape Town, March 2nd – Professional Windsurfer, Ocean Adventurer and Environmentalist Florian Jung visits South Africa to enjoy some of the fantastic windsurfing conditions Cape Town has to offer while escaping the cold European Winter. While Flo has been enjoying the great windsurfing conditions Cape Town has to offer, the fresh drinking water crisis has…
Starboard’s sustainability team hit it’s first trade show to present Starboard Blue. International sports trade show, ISPO, opened up the floor to companies wanting to display their CSR achievements. ISPO MUNICH is the biggest sports trade show in the world and takes place once every year at Messe Munchen in Munich. This year the event…
Starboard Blue headed to Myanmar to catch up on all things environmental. On the agenda was Mangroves, drone planting, marine litter and a special meeting with head of UN Envrionment. Here is a recap of what went down. The Thor Heyerdahl Climate Park, where Starboard is involved with mangrove reforestation, is planning to up its…
We are happy to announce that all our hard work and efforts to do good by our planet has been recognized. As of 2018 Starboard is now a certified B-Corporation. That means we have been certified by the non-profit B-Lab to meet extremely strict standards of social and environmental performance, accountability and transparency. Starboard has over…
More than seven-tenths of this planet’s surface is covered in water. That blue expanse is Earth’s greatest playground and classroom, and its most vital ecosystem. Life in the oceans generates the oxygen for every second breath we take. It regulates the climate, the weather, the temperature. Our very survival as a species is intertwined with…
Starboard has been reducing its carbon footprint by planting over 100,000 mangrove trees in the Thor Heyerdahl Climate Park in Myanmar, making us three times carbon net positive annually. However, it is important to remember that carbon sequestration is not the answer alone to the current climate crisis. We need to mitigate our emissions to…