Plastic waste is everywhere — it’s even washed up on the beaches from distant, uninhabited islands within the South Pacific to the coasts of Antarctica.

While it’s easy to feel small in the face of such an existential issue, you can make a difference by keeping your local beach area clean to reduce the impact of waste on marine life. Learn how you can use your drone to do your part.

As a surfer, you know the importance of sustainability and how important it is to take care of the oceans as a place that is not only a form of entertainment, but also a home to marine animals and biodiversity.

Here’s a list of actions you can take to adopt a sustainable surf lifestyle.

The world has a growing plastic pollution problem, and single-use plastics are primarily to blame. Here’s why we should stop using them to save our planet.

Oceans are home to some of the most beautiful places on earth. They house millions of animal species, affect weather patterns and support numerous human populations by providing food. Our oceans are magnificent natural resources that are unfortunately becoming more and more endangered by plastic pollution every year.

Read on to learn more about the impact of plastics on sea life and what you can do to prevent harmful plastic pollution.

Overfishing is a word that is used loosely to describe mass fishing at a scale that the ecosystem cannot keep up with. There are many reasons why overfishing happens: government subsidies, faulty regulations, lack of law enforcement, and a disproportionate number of large fisheries in first-world countries.

The worst part about all of this is that the very regulations and procedures put in place to prevent overfishing are the same ones causing it to happen. Let’s talk about it.

The 17 United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), launched in 2015, highlight 169 targets that aim to push forward the current standards of international development. The SDGs focus around many topics including targets for protecting the planet, fighting inequality and combatting the effects of climate change while involving all relevant stakeholders along the implementation process.

The question is: how can these goals be applied to sustainable tourism?

When planning our next holiday, we always make sure we have the essentials. We might even make a checklist of all the things we need and all the places we’re going to see. But do any of us really think about how our trip might affect the local community of our holiday destination?

Sometimes, our dream vacations can have serious negative consequences on the environment. Though we dream of splashing in the waves with dolphins and seeing coral reefs up close, the reality is that the effects of these actions can long outlive our enjoyment of them.

This week we met with Straw by Straw , another partner helping us to #GoGreenForTheBigBlue. Every day we use hundreds of millions straws worldwide. See how this company provides a sustainable alternative. 

Tourism has a huge influence on water pollution. But do you know where that pollution comes from or how it impacts the environment? Here we try to answer those questions and more

We travel to new places for a lot of reasons: to meet new people, experience new cultures, and see some of the most beautiful sights in the world.

But have you ever wondered how your travels affect the local environment?

2017 in review: United Nations World Travel Organization named 2017 “The International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development”. It was poised to “advance the contribution of the tourism sector to the three pillars of sustainability – economic, social and environmental” as said by the then UNWTO Secretary-General, Taleb Rifai.