Volumes of marine litter are dramatically increasing year after year. Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) has successful marine litter campaigns targeting manufacturers, mobilising large-scale grass roots direct action and increasing public awareness on this ever-worsening problem.

However, with each new high tide comes a new marine litter line impacting on our beloved beaches and surf spots.

Current anti-litter legislation such as The Environmental Protection Act 1990, MARPOL and the Port Waste Reception Facilities regulations are not providing the levels of protection needed for the coastline.

We urge you to implement a National Marine Litter Strategy to combat this worsening issue and help protect our coastlines.

Click the following link and please sign the petition http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/marine-litter/

Nada Surf – Whose Authority

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Every now and then you come across music which you love so much you’ve got to buy all of their albums at once. Well, that’s just happened and we’re now enjoying the chilled out, emotive sounds of Nada Surf.

Pop onto iTunes, grab yourself a copy of ‘Lucky’, lay back and enjoy

Nada Surf have been going strong for 15 years and thanks to ‘Freaks of Nature’s’ Tweet we found out about them, cheers guys.

We decided it was time for a spring clean on the peeler website.

So, we’ve tweaked the design and functionality a little to make life easier.

For example, in the top right corner of the website (next to the search bar) there’s a clever little widget that adds up items from your basket as you shop.

It’s good to dust off every once in a while and polish a few areas (there’s a joke there, which would pop up if we were in a ‘Carry On’ film).

Hope you like the spring clean, let us know if you would like to see anything else on the website email hello@peelersurf.co.uk

Three of Britain’s best stand up paddleboarders met at West Wittering windsurf club this Friday, 29th January to launch the Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) 2010 Challenge, a Guinness World Record™ breaking attempt to cross the English Channel in June this year that also aims to raise at least £10,000 for SAS’s campaigns and celebrate the organisation’s 20th anniversary.

Matt Argyle (Chairman of the British Stand Up Paddle Association (BSUPA) and ranked 2nd in the UK for stand up paddleboarding), Claire Blacklock (UK women’s stand up paddleboard champion) and Simon Bassett (BSUPA head coach) will be joined in June by longboarding champion Elliot Dudley and UK stand up paddleboarding champion Jock Patterson for the crossing attempt, which could see them break a Guinness World Record™ along the way.

In the first event of its kind, the paddleboarders will set off from Dover and aim to arrive in Calais around five hours later, having completed the crossing of the world’s busiest shipping lane. The event will be taking place between 18th – 25th of June, with the paddlers waiting for the best tide and weather conditions in which to make the 21mile crossing. If the paddlers are successful they will be the first stand up paddleboard team to have ever crossed the English Channel, and could potentially break the record for the fastest paddleboard crossing as well.

The Guinness World Record™ for crossing the English Channel by paddleboard currently stands at five hours and nine minutes, and was set by US paddler Michael O’Shaughnessy in 2006. The event has been put together by SAS with the support of BSUPA, and the paddlers aim to raise at least £10,000 in sponsorship money to support SAS’s campaigns to protect surfers and waveriders, waves and beaches around the UK. If you would like sponsor the 2010 Challenge please go to www.justgiving.com/2010challenge and make a donation. You can also follow the paddlers’ training blog on
www.supglobal.com.

SAS Director Hugo Tagholm says, “We are delighted to have such a fantastic team of Britain’s best stand up paddleboard talent to make this world record attempt. The event will raise vital funds and awareness for our ongoing campaigns protecting the UK’s oceans, beaches and coastlines for everyone to enjoy. It’s also a great way to celebrate 20 years of successful SAS campaigning!”

Chairman of BSUPA Matt Argyle says, “This is a fantastic opportunity for BSUPA and stand up paddlers to raise money for SAS, an organisation that has made a demonstrable difference to the quality of the environment that all water sports enthusiasts rely on. All of the paddlers will be training hard take on this challenge and we hope to raise as much money as possible. “

The Airplot Design Contest from Greenpeace UK on Vimeo.

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Stop Airport expansion, No third runway!

Green Peace have bought a piece of land slap bang in the middle of the proposed third runway site at Heathrow. They’re not going to let the runway be built and they need your help.

peeler have got their own bit of the Airplot here, get yours by clicking here and then ask your local politicians to join you as a beneficial owner of the Airplot.

We’ve just launched our sale, the ‘non-peeler, peeler sale’. Basically we’re selling everything which is not branded with the peeler iron.

The ‘non-peeler, peeler sale’ is more than just a sale. We’ve just finalised our plans for 2010 and it’s all rather exciting! As from February/March 2010 we’ll only be stocking peeler products.
There’s 2 reasons for this:

1. We can closely monitor how planet friendly our products are, e.g. the carbon footprint on our own products will be easier to measure.

2. We want to push the peeler brand and sell the products we believe in 100%

So, help us shed our old skin and grab yourself a bargain with the non-peeler, peeler sale.

Click here to go to the main peeler website and find out more…

Story from the BBC

A rare surfing competition has been held in Hawaii as waves of 12m (40ft) pounded Oahu’s famous North Shore.

Thousands of people gathered on beaches and cliffs to watch the world’s greatest surfers tackle the waves.

It was only the eighth time in 25 years that the Eddie Aikau competition, named in honour of a celebrated Hawaiian surfer and lifeguard, was held.

The contest is only staged in the most extreme surf conditions and last took place in 2004.

‘Unbelievably dangerous’

Nine-times world champion Kelly Slater was the strongest starter, but first-time entrant Greg Long, 24, took a narrow lead over his older rival and won with a score of 323 to 313.

Greg Long celebrates on 8 December 2009
It really is about the wave and celebrating the ocean
Greg Long

In pictures: Monster surf contest

The victorious Californian – who took home a purse of $55,000 (£34,000) – said it was “a dream come true” to take part in the “biggest event of big waves in the world”.

Long said the camaraderie of the contest, known as the Eddie, “encapsulates everything that’s great about surfing”.

“It really is about the wave and celebrating the ocean. It’s what we do: go out there and ride big waves.”

A total of 28 surfers were invited to take part in the event at Waimea Bay, chosen by a poll of the surfing community.

Organisers had been watching weather and wave conditions in the seas around the US state and announced early on Tuesday morning local time that the competition would run.

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“We were all stoked out there, smiling, laughing and having a good time,” said competitor Jamie O’Brien.

“This is like a natural arena out here for this and it’s amazing to be a part of it,” he told the Honolulu Advertiser.

People travelled from around the world to the US state to watch the event.

Malika Dudley of CBC News told the BBC people were lining cliff tops and had climbed trees to watch the vast waves.

She said it was “unbelievably dangerous” to take part in the event – one surfer, Tom Carroll of Australia, had been injured – but that safety teams were in the water on jet skis in case of accidents.

Eddie Aikau, after whom the contest is named, was a legendary surfer who died in 1978 at the age of 31, after capsizing in a traditional voyaging canoe en route from Hawaii to Tahiti.

To help you all out this Christmas we’ve kicked off our 12 Sales of Christmas.

From 9th December 2009 – 20th December 2009 we’re having a 12% off sale each day on different items.

The first sale starts today – 12% off all tshirts!

Click here for Men’s

Click here for Women’s

Credit: Courtesy OrigAudio.

Origami is about more than creative napkin folding. And listening to music is about more than bulky speakers. A Chicago company calls it OrigAudio—A foldable, self-powered speaker made from recycled paper.

The speakers were No. 38 on Time magazine’s list of the 50 Best Inventions of 2009 (which also included products like the Dow Chemical solar shingle).

The speakers fuse “modern art, graphic design, music, and Asia’s ancient origami art form” to create 3-inch portable cubes, according to ZOLD, an eco-sales agency. They come in five designs, or you can create your own.

They’re only 1 watt, which makes an ear wonder how loud they’ll be. But the speakers will slip easily into your luggage, or laptop case, and sound “pretty good” for the price, according to a segment on the “Today” show.

A portion of sale proceeds go the nonprofit Music National Service which “supports and expands the use of music to address important civic and social needs.”