Surfrider Activism Protecting Ocean and Community Health - Important for Future Travel

00:00 Welcome Stefanie Sekich-Quinn

00:43 Passion started in childhood

02:30 Save the Trestles Campaign

06:50 OKTie Wooden Glasses on Etsy

07:30 Policy & Implementation

11:00 State by State Report Card

15:30 Collecting Data

18:00 Public access to beaches

19:20 Outdated thinking

21:20 Real Estate Value & Risk

23:00 Hawaii's Vulnerability Assessment

25:50 Ocean Based Climate Solutions Act

28:00 Biden Administration Progress

29:00 Coastal Tourism Economics

32:00 Plastic Pollution 5-Gyers

34:00 Plastic emissions & lifecycle

36:40 How do you prioritize projects to focus on?

39:00 Need 30% Marine Protected Areas (MPA's)

40:50 West Coast MPA's

41:40 How to get stakeholders to agree?

45:00 Spillover positive effect of MPA's

46:00 Empowering people to make a change

47:00 Japan Surfrider & Surf Culture

50:00 Community Scientists & Data Collecting

51:20 Counting Beach Plastics for Databases

52:40 Any priorities for worldwide change?

53:20 Managed retreat for coastal properties

54:55 Switch to 100% Renewables by 2030

56:30 Personal action: investing in solar & plantbased

57:20 What can you do for meaningful change in your life?

58:30 Ocean-friendly gardens, businesses

1:00:00 Surfrider around the world

1:01:00 Please come to Japan!

Stefanie Sekich-Quinn of Surfrider Foundation is the Sr. Manager Coast and Climate Initiative talks about the Surfrider Foundation mission and projects, but also her personal sustainable challenges and ability to rally diverse members of a community to join a protest to protect coastal areas from development like she has been doing for the last 20 years at the 'Save the Trestles' campaign in California. https://www.surfrider.org/coastal-blog/entry/15-years-thousands-of-activists-one-goal-save-trestles-forever

LINKS

* Bio for Stefanie Sekich-Quinn is on Surfrider website:

https://www.surfrider.org/our-team/staff/stefanie-sekich-quinn

* Plastic Pollution Initiatives at Surfrider: https://www.surfrider.org/initiatives/plastic-pollution

* Surfrider Japan (Japanese) https://www.surfrider.jp/

* Ingo Gunther - ReNature Japan's Coastal Armor picture - an art project to add nature to the concrete walls along Japan's coastlines: https://ingogunther.com/#/renature/

* The 5-Gyers org: https://www.5gyres.org/

* OKTIE wooden glasses made by a talented craftsperson from the Ukraine on ETSY: https://www.etsy.com/shop/OKTIEofficial?section_id=22388944