SEA has contacted the news media about NJ beach access issues and is actively pursuing these issues with local politicians. For example, in Sea Bright, a new beachfront was developed via multiple tax funded beach replenishment programs. Beach clubs have since placed cabanas and no trespassing signs on this beach that was under the ocean […]
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No New Offshore Oil Drilling
Help protect and preserve the California Coastline! Send a letter to Governor Schwarzenegger saying “NO” to offshore oil drilling. Help stop the Tranquillon Ridge Oil & Gas Project off of Santa Barbara. By Mail Download this letter to Governor Schwarzenegger. Print, sign, and mail it to: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger State Capitol Building Sacramento, CA 95814 Online […]
The 4th Annual SEA Paddle around NYC
The 4th Annual SEA Paddle around NYC hosts some of surfing top legends, raises money for Surfers Healing. SEA event organizers Darrick Doerner & Andrew Mencinsky joined by 3 time world champion and legend Tom Curren, Keith Malloy, Gerry Lopez and 80+ friends for a 28 mile paddle around NYC and this year have added […]
Stop Dolphin Killing in Japan
The Story The Cove exposes the slaughter of more than 20,000 dolphins and porpoises off the coast of Japan every year, and how their meat, containing toxic levels of mercury, is sold as food in Japan and other parts of Asia, often labeled as whale meat. The majority of the world is not aware this […]
STYROFOAM AND PLASTIC BAG BANS SEA
Since November, 2007 the West Coast/North Outpost has been heavily-involved in advocating for bans on polystyrene (expanded plastic foam or Styrofoam) food take-out containers in restaurants and other food-service businesses around Monterey Bay and elsewhere in California, and in the past three years we have also advocated for the reduction in single-use plastic carryout bags. […]
Styro-Ban Project
Since November, 2007 the Santa Cruz Chapter has been heavily-involved in advocating for bans on polystyrene (expanded plastic foam or Styrofoam) food take-out containers in restaurants and other food-service businesses around Monterey Bay in California. Why? Well, because it’s a no-brainer for anyone who cares at all about the health of oceans and wildlife and […]
New Jersey Surf Reef
The New Jersey Surf Reef enters modeling design phase at the state level. After an 18 month stall at the state level due to lack of funding and political will, the SEA NJ surf reef project is now being modeled using the wave tank at Stevens Instititute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ. In a meeting […]
Pleasure Point
SEA led the effort to preserve public pathways to the surf at one of the most famous and historic surf spots in Northern California — Pleasure Point in Santa Cruz. SEA entered into agreements with private property owners and state and local officials to maintain the conditions of the paths. Also, SEA has funded the […]
Beach Replenishment
US ARMY CORPS of Engineers adopts Surfers’ Environmental Alliance (SEA) design for modified beach replenishment project. For the better part of the last decade SEA activists, including the current acting executive director Andrew Mencinsky, have been working with local, state, and federal officials to modify the unnatural straight line design of beach fill projects. “Our […]
The 2nd Annual SEA NYC Paddle around Manhattan
I guess I just plain forgot. I had forgotten about the pain. I had forgotten about how long 28 miles is. I guess I had forgotten everything negative about the whole darn thing. I remembered when it was over how strong the sense of accomplishment was and the satisfaction that went with it. But I […]