sustainability

Environment

From Waste Plastic To Surfboards: Three Kiwis Lead The Way

Derek MorrisonNovember 28, 2019November 28, 2019

by Derek MorrisonNovember 28, 2019November 28, 20190

Momentum for the environment may be building painstakingly slowly within the surf industry, but not for the three New Zealanders driving Spooked Kooks recycled surfboards out of Bondi. It was during a morning session at Sandy Bay, that I had my first encounter with a Dead Hippy. It was under......

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Business

Sustainability And Innovation Key Drivers At Seventhwave Wetsuits

Derek MorrisonOctober 10, 2019October 11, 2019

by Derek MorrisonOctober 10, 2019October 11, 20190

Lying on a table in Seventhwave’s Ferrymead factory in Christchurch is a fluffy orange wetsuit that doesn’t look anything like the wetsuit manufacturer’s flagship Yamamoto suits. Sarah smiles, she lifts the wetsuit up and explains the prototype to me. “I haven’t surfed in this one yet,” she admits with a......

Environment

World Surf League Unveils Unprecedented Commitment To The Environment

Derek MorrisonJune 5, 2019

by Derek MorrisonJune 5, 20191

In an unprecedented move for a global professional sports body, World Surf League has today committed to becoming carbon neutral and eliminating single-use plastics by the end of 2019. This announcement adds further weight to the WSL’s existing ocean conservation efforts. Those efforts include WSL Pure, its non-profit arm, which......

Business

Luxury Oceanwear Range Driven To Clean Up Oceans With Kiwi At The Helm

Derek MorrisonApril 30, 2019May 3, 2019

by Derek MorrisonApril 30, 2019May 3, 20190

They say this is the era of the fierce female. If that’s true then Janaya Wilkins, with her new sustainable oceanwear range, nails it. Born in New Zealand, designed in London and made in Italy, SLO active has a global purpose: to clean up and protect our oceans. Wilkins grew......

Ideas

Vege Power: How One Surfer Owned His Wave-Miles Guilt

Derek MorrisonOctober 15, 2018October 15, 2018

by Derek MorrisonOctober 15, 2018October 15, 20180

It’s 10:30am on a Tuesday and Matt Jenks is pulling up outside Japanese restaurant Jitsu in lower Stuart Street, Dunedin, parking his bike and heading inside with a 20-litre container to drain the kitchen of its used vegetable oil. It’s a 10-minute side-trip on his way to work at Dunedin......

Crystal Ball Gazing: The Future Of Surfboard Technology...

Derek MorrisonNovember 18, 2019

November 18, 2019

New Zealand Surf Journal asks Primal’s lead surfboard shapers, Glen Carkeek and Steve...

Most of the kaumatua of New Zealand surfing will tell you that they’ve...