Green surfers September 21, 2006
Surfing Magazine have just featured Zoozoo2 in its latest October issue. The feature is all about budding environmental activism in the surfing community and has highlighted Zoozoo2 as one of the surfing new generation of companies looking out for our Mother Earth.
The article starts ‘Our Mother Earth’s condition is deteriorating faster than George Bush’s approval rating. Pollutants continue to end up in our watershed, slowly but steadily destroying our reefs and beaches. When are we going to realize that it’s time we make some changes? Some already have….
Sounds just like something we would say and it is music to …
Dolphin slaughter September 13, 2006
I have just been reading some very disturbing information about the resumption of dolphin capture and slaughter in Japan. I had not realised but it seems Japanese fishermen still kill some 20-thousand dolphins a year and most of us are innocently unaware of this atrocity.
Here is an extract from BlueVoice.org:
Fishermen at Futo have resumed dolphin hunts. Taiji fishermen kill hundreds of dolphins. BlueVoice.org has halted hunts in the past. They are currently in Japan now to end these brutal slaughters forever.
Beginning in October each year a small number of fishermen in villages such as Taiji, Japan begin to hunt dolphins. …
Where did all the rubbish go? September 8, 2006
Our Oceans cover 70 per cent of the Earth’s surface none of which is immune from pollution, as ocean currents transport pollutants to every corner of our planet.
Did you know
70-80% of all marine pollution orginates from land based sources
Every year, rivers and streams transport roughly 25 billion tons of eroded sediment into coastal waters, smothering near shore ecosystems and fouling shallow waters habitats
Plastic waste kills up to 1 million sea birds, 100,000 sea mammals and countless fish each year. Plastic does not decompose easily, so can remain in the ecosystem for many years to kill again and again
Average …
The Big Wild World August 18, 2006
We know the wild world is disappearing.
It’s a sobering thought.
It is why we decided to start ZooZoo2.
It’s why we sell organic cotton and it is why we are always bending your ear about our planet and the bad things we are doing to it.
The truth is we can all make a difference even in a small way. You don’t have to become a full time eco activist, you don’t have to join eco forums and start pounding the pavement with a placard (although I can think of worse ways to spend your free time). Think about …
Reef encounters - reefs to rubble July 25, 2006
Reef encounters
Our oceans make up the world’s single largest ecosystem and it is a system under increasing stress.
Destructive fishing practices are devastating marine habitats vital to the survival of many marine species.
One of the most destructive fishing practices is bottom trawling.
A single sweep of a bottom trawl net destroys century old corals in minutes
Botton trawling is killing vast numbers of marine species
What is it?
Bottom trawling is the practice of dragging large nets weighted with chains, roller or rock-hopper gear across the seafloor to catch groundfish species such as rockfish, cod, and sole.
Bottom trawls are used throughout the North Pacific …
The times they are a changin (slowly) July 10, 2006
Like most businesses (with the exception of a notable few) the big global clothing companies are re-active not pro-active. They don’t care whether their products are environmentally sustainable or whether sweatshops exist or not. It is only when it affects their profits or the brand image that they consider change. We as customers are ultimately the only ones who can bring about change on the high street. Demand influences.
Al - zoozoo2
Play June 10, 2006
Play can teach the young and stimulate the old
Play can unite
Play can bring joy
Play can bring rage
Play can be passionate
Play can be creative
Play can challenge the body
Play can lift the spirit
Play is universal
Go Play, Go surf, Go dive, now
Al -zoozoo2
Little people May 10, 2006
There is an old African proverb it goes…
if many little people
in many little places
do many little deeds
They can change the face of the world.
Well that’s exactly how zoozoo2 feels. It doesn’t matter how small it is just do it.
As surfers, snowboarders and scuba d’s we can play our small part in determining what happens to our planet by the consumer choices we make and the little things we do.
Al - zoozoo2
Big blue April 27, 2006
The World’s seas and oceans are home to countless species, from tiny plankton to the great whale. Yet marine life, and the sea on which we depend, surf and swim, is under threat from pollution, over-fishing and other damaging activities.
As surfers and divers what can we do?
The presence of litter such as plastic bottles, crisp wrappers and sewage related debris on beaches and at sea is unattractive, has health and economic impacts on local communities, and is potentially harmful to marine wildlife through entanglement and ingestion.’ [Marine conservation society]
Hundreds of thousands of sea turtles, whales and other marine …
Take a break March 28, 2006
Long hours are not good for us; they cause stress; they’re bad for our health; they wreck relationships; they make caring for children or dependents more difficult; and tired, burnt-out staff are bad for business. [worksmart.org.uk]
We need more time for surfing,
more time for snowboarding,
more time for scuba diving,
more time for life.
We need more time for living, less time for working.
We need a three day weekend
Al - zoozoo2