With last week’s news that Trump has pulled out of the Paris Agreement, it seems like the whole world is talking about climate change. But it’s all too easy to find yourself absorbed in the politics & the hype and forget about the real issue. Climate change is a hot topic that’s for sure, but…
Sometimes it’s the simple things that make all the difference. That’s why we’ve added one little tool to every paddle we make: the Starboard Paddle Pick, a tool that makes grabbing trash out of the water as simple as taking another stroke. This small addition to our paddles will help us help the United Nations…
“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…