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Daniel Jones – Transworld Surf

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Rusty Long Surfer & Eastern Surf Magazine

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Brand Ambassador Holly Beck and Waves of Hope

admin — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 22:00:35 +0000

Brand Ambassador, Holly Beck works with he non-profit, Waves of Hope, in Nicaragua is going strong and working hard to improve the lives of local community members. One part of the project is an afternoon kid’s club that builds confidence, teamwork, and fun.
Here’s a video of one fun afternoon she did with the kids…Slip and Sliding out of Trouble with Waves of Hope!

Brand Ambassador Jasset Umbel is featured in Jetty Girl on-line magazine

admin — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 20:05:57 +0000

Brand Ambassador Jasset Umbel is featured on JettyGirl.com! Check it out…

Guest Blogger: Nico Manos and a Beach Cleanup in Canada

admin — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:51:20 +0000

Lightening, thunder, rain squalls, sun and fun beach break met the 40 or so volunteers that showed up for our second beach clean-up of the year. Many of us think of this weather as “normal” in Nova Scotia but that won’t stop me from giving an extra special “THANKS” to all of the people who lugged garbage bags through the rain while watching super fun peaky beach break…on fathers day (who makes these dates, whoops).
At the end of the day we collected about 200kgs of trash, down from 400 in the last clean. It’s funny because you look at the trash and think ‘ah that’s too bad..not as much as last time’ and then realize that that’s a good thing. You don’t get the same gratification from hauling away half the trash but that means we are making a difference; beach-goers see that surfers, locals and others care for this area and in turn respect the place a little more. We also have to thank Debbie, Sarah and Kerry for the lack of trash. These three work at the Provincial Park daily for DNR, they are responsible for a ton of park upkeep including emptying the numerous garbage cans on Lawrencetown, Stoney and Conrad beaches.
Special thanks goes to Jenner Cormier for organizing, Scotty Sherin for the photos, Mike Page and Dartmouth Dodge for the delicious pizza.
If you feel guilty about missing the beach cleanups, don’t worry, there is one planned for Cow Bay in early August and one shortly after Labour day at Lawrencetown. Stay posted through Ocean Minded, surfns.com, or my facebook.
-Nico Manos

Early Morning Surf with Holly Beck

admin — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 03:45:48 +0000

We imagine every morning is like this for Ocean Minded Brand Ambassador Holly Beck. Check out Holly’s blog for more adventures.

Florida Beach Cleanup Tour

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Sunday 4/17

South side of Juno Beach Pier

2pm – SUP surf and Demo with Blueline Standup Paddle Surf

4pm – Beach Cleanup

6pm – Thank you BBQ at Locals Surfshop Catered by Guanabanas

Tuesday 4/19

Beach Blvd, Red Cross Lifeguard Building

4pm – Beach Cleanup

6pm – BBQ at Sunrise Surfshop

Friday 4/22 – Sunday 4/24

Shepards Park, Cocoa Beach

3 Days – Ron Jons Easter Surf-fest

MORE: http://www.eastersurffest.com/11/main.cfm

Saturday 4/23

Shepards Park, Cocoa Beach

8:30am – FL State Paddleboard Championships

MORE: http://www.cocoabeachsurfmuseum.org/pb_fspbc2011.aspx

Lawrencetown Beach Cleanup

admin — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 23:01:34 +0000

Ocean Minded brand ambassador Nico Manos sends news of a 40 person cleanup that collected an astounding 380 pounds of trash from the beaches of Lawrencetown. That’s one dedicated clean up crew, especially considering the offshore beach break going off in the background.

Photographer Scotty Sherin not only filled an industrial sized garbage bag full of trash, he found the time to shoot these pics and get them together for us. Visit his site for a healthy dose of coastal life and surf stoke.

Raph Bruhwiler and Nico Manos Score Eastern Canada

admin — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 21:36:14 +0000

Ocean Minded surf ambassadors Raph Bruhwiler and Nico Manos scored eastern Canada all winter long. Points, slabs, beaches, you name it, it’s all in a photo packed post at Surfline titled The Real Nor’Easter.

Ocean Minded Retailer PlanetShoes.com Reducing Their Impact on the Planet

admin — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 20:50:16 +0000

PlanetShoes.com Joins Forces with Carbonfund.org to Reduce Global Warming

Global climate change is a serious issue that affects everyone whether you realize it or not. The clearing of large tracts of forests across the globe, are contributing to rising temperatures, soil erosion, and habitat loss. In addition to losing the oxygen creating, air cleaning benefits that forests provide, the impact of deforestation is multiplied by the CO2 emissions and resources needed to actually clear the forest. Forests are burned in order to clear land, and carbon emissions from machinery used to clear land and transport materials add heavily to the problem. It is estimated that Tropical deforestation releases 1.5 billion tons of carbon into the atmosphere each year.
For the month of April, PlanetShoes.com has partnered with the Carbonfund.org Million Tree Challenge to help reduce our impact on the planet. For only $1 you may plant a tree plus PlanetShoes.com will match the donation with a $1 tree of their own to help reduce the impact of carbon emissions. Because PlanetShoes.com will be matching their customer’s contributions dollar for dollar, the impact is doubled right away. When you consider that over a 50-year lifetime, a tree generates $31,250 worth of oxygen, provides $62,000 worth of air pollution control, recycles $37,500 worth of water, and controls $31,250 worth of soil erosion, $1 seems like a pretty good investment. To do your part in celebrating Earth Month visit http://www.planetshoes.com/earthmonth or learn about all the eco-friendly shoes (link http://www.planetshoes.com/eco) and other earth friendly products at Planet Shoes.