Rip Curl Planet Foundation

A Jon Frank exhibit at the Rip Curl Pro Search 09 in Peniche

Rip Curl has had the privilege of working with photographer Jon Frank for a long time. He has been living the Search with our best athletes for a decade, travelling with them to our planet’s most remote areas in search of waves and new (...)

Mountain Riders moves closer to the mountains !

Mountain Riders moves to reduce carbon emissions of 10%. A Carbon assessment completed at the beginning of 2009 The Research Department worked for three months to assess the greenhouse gas of the association’s activities for 2007 and 2008. (...)

The Rip Curl Music Festival gives his support to the Foundation !

The 4th edition of the RIP CURL MUSIC FESTIVAL took place in Biarritz-Bidart, on the 21st and 22nd of August. More than 30 000 spectators came on the Ilbarritz beach to make the most of two nights of free live concerts, facing the sear and the (...)

SAS – Regional Reps Selected!

Surfers Against Sewage and the Rip Curl Planet Foundation are delighted to announce the selection of the SAS Regional Reps. These new recruits have been invited to SAS’s training event in September where they will be put through their paces on (...)

Girls Tour: a drink for the Foundation

Stopping in 5 countries and with nearly 20 000 participants, the Rip Curl & Hawaiian Tropic Girls Tour has been back in Europe this summer, with its bus to teach girls the joy of surfing for free, and to spend time simply hanging out with (...)

Basque coastline: Online water quality updates!

Each week over the entire summer, water samples will be examined at 10 locations along the Spanish Basque coastline! The Surfrider Foundation Europe initiative provides coastal water quality monitoring to improve the safety of nautical (...)

The analysis of the resins is over!

The Clean Shaper Association has now completed the analysis of several resins to determine whether they contain ingredients harmful to health and the environment. From the results obtained on the samples in terms of ease of use and features an (...)

Raffle: and the winner is…

Thanks to all of you who participated to the raffle we organized. It is important to remind that the first objective of this raffle was to collect money to support more environmental projects. In July, it will be possible to consult these new (...)

SAS Regional Reps – Eco Ambassadors Training Weekend

‘The chance to get more involved with protecting the coastline in your area’ There is still time for you to get into the running for one of the prestigious positions as a voluntary Regional Rep. The tasks involved as an SAS Rep are not only (...)

Mountain Riders: Spring Cleaning time!

In 2008, eco-volunteer groups from the different mountain ranges across France got together and mobilised more than 2 500 volunteers, who gave of their time and energy to turn their beliefs into concrete actions. Clean-up days were organised in (...)

The « Resine » project keeps on going!

The samples have been tested by the laboratory Rescoll in Bordeaux (www.rescoll.fr). The results in terms of flexibility, hardness and strength have been compared to the shaper’s impression. The UV ageing tests are impressive. It is possible, (...)

Follow the coral guard adventure online!!!

In February 2009, a team of Tahitian surfers, Hanalei Reponty and Kevin Bourez, invited Hawaiian artist Heather Brown for a boat trip around Moorea Island to surf and meet people concerned with coral reefs preservation. You can now follow this (...)

A raffle for the Rip Curl Planet Foundation

The time is always right for a good cause! Our raffle has been organized to raise funds and support for future environmental projects. Trust me, it’s worth it. Selected winners will receive one of the following prizes: 1 roundtrip sailboat (...)

Mountain Riders: Respect Festival 2009

This eco event will take place at the ski resort Les Arcs on April 3rd and 4th, 2009. The Respect Festival was born in 2006 at Les Arcs, initiated by Mountain Riders’ Savoie antenna. It is considered as an “eco-event”. Indeed, since the beginning, (...)

Ocean Iniatives: 19-22 March 2009

For the fourteenth year running, Surfrider Foundation Europe is organizing Ocean Initiatives, a great eco-citizen weekend dedicated to the protection of our coasts, our lakes and our rivers. Ocean Initiatives, how does it work? Voluntary (...)

Coral Spawning in New Caledonia

The Northern Province and WWF, supported by IRD (Research Development Institute), have made the follow-up of coral spawning on the island Hyega at the end of last year. Following-up the coral spawning is an environmental education project which (...)

Clean Shaper Association’s project strides along

Indeed, the prototype of UV tunnel is now completed, and there remains only the validation by an electrician that the electrical connections are safe in order to avoid setting up fire to the workshop! The UV resins tests have also begun. (...)

Basque littoral: surf spot analysis now online!

Surfrider Foundation Europe gives the ocean addicts the possibility to check the water quality of several surf spots in the Spanish Basque country. Overall, 9 beaches are being analyzed once a week in summertime and every two weeks during (...)

Rip Curl and Mountain Riders launch a jacket that cleans up mountains!

… at least helps us in cleaning up mountains. Indeed, the Rip Curl winter collection proposes a jacket equipped with a small flexible washable and reusable dustbin (called “stink sack”). What a brilliant idea from Mountain Riders crew! On this (...)

New website for Surfrider Foundation

Discover the new website, more visual, more colourful, more complete, more interactive: www.surfrider.eu Whether you are looking for information about the organization in general, or about a topic in particular, you will find the information (...)

New web site for Clean Shaper

The new Clean Shaper’s web site is now online!(www.cleanshaper.com). Informations concerning new safety equipments, new material and technical guide are available. The Clean Shaper association publish their first version of the guide "Eco (...)

Ice Bar Sprite at the Rip Curl Girls tour

The Rip Curl & Sprite Girls Tour is a famous free surfing lessons tour for girls. Every Rip Curl event is eco-friendly: the leaflets are made from recycled paper originating from a sustainable and managed forest, selective sorting, banners (...)

Tag team

Let’s face it: our surfboards are not super green. However, there are today real ecological alternatives to conventional surfboards, either in the experimental field (with a 40% soja foam) or already marketed (polystyrene + low-tox epoxy). So (...)

Coral Guard: to surf and preserve

Québec, July 8th 2008, the World Heritage Committee, consisting of representatives from 21 of the States Parties to the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage met. They finally agreed on France’s request (...)