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The San Diego Union-Tribune recently reported that Surf-first.org was launched by “Surfing Magazine journalist Matt Walker in association with the Surfrider Foundation” in order to get a scientific and all-encompassing  picture of “who surfers are; where they come from; what they do for work; how, when and where they surf; and where they spend their [...]

Covered in polyurethane, your surfboard is not exactly a Green product. And when it gets old and beat up, it’s really tough to reuse it unless you can get very creative. (I’ve seen a few tables and lamps made from old boards)
ReSurf and Green Foam Blanks, two companies in Southern California, are doing something to [...]

This is a new one for me—a fish-share.
The Yankee Fisherman’s Coop of Seabrook, NH will sell locally caught fish to local retail establishments and to any customer interested in weekly shares of shrimp and lobster.
At this time, it looks like they only have shellfish packages for landlubbers like us or 20 pound packages of a [...]

NASA is poised to give us the first views of the dark side (far side) of the sun.
The space agency has launched the STEREO (Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatories) mission, two spacecraft that will simultaneously orbit the sun to provide a complete picture of all sides at once. The first full image will come early in [...]

Human hunting and fishing practices are forcing an evolutionary shrinkage of prey species, reports the Wired Science blog.
Kind of a no-brainer. Throughout time, life has adapted to its environment, as well as to avoid becoming tonight’s dinner. Now that humanity has such a massive impact on the Earth, “forced” adaptations will likely increase more quickly [...]

Think back to what you were doing in 1981, then imagine getting news via your home computer—if you had one.
This video of a 1981 KRON report predicts the future of news reporting on the future of the Internet.
And the best part? An S.F. Examiner editor mentions how they’re not in it to make money, when [...]

In an almost scifi start to the new year, SpaceFellowship.com writes New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson announced “Virgin Galactic has signed a 20 year lease agreement with the State of New Mexico. Virgin Galactic’s world headquarters will be established in New Mexico and its operations will be located at New Mexico’s Spaceport America, the nation’s [...]

The State of Israel finally has a national bird. Behold, the Hoopoe, chosen during this year’s celebration of the 60th anniversary of the nation’s independence.

The Hoopoe
(Photo by Dhaval Momaya, via Wikipedia)
According to a news brief from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, the bird is native to the Middle East and has an Israeli commando unit named [...]

This news item from ABC affiliate Channel 13 News is just too odd to explain. Dachshund poop, Jesus statuette-napping and feuding neighbors… You just have to watch it to believe it.

The governments of France, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore have something in common. They don’t fool around when it comes to piracy.
Mike Nizza reports from The Lede: Notes on the News on NYTimes.com that in 2005, the Malacca Straight, one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world, was considered a war zone because there [...]