Global Reef proposes the first annual Galapagos Surf Summit 2011. The Summit will bring together the world’s leading surf industry players and executives on a chartered yacht for a 7 night environmental team building expedition in the Galapagos.
The goals of the expedition are to bring together key shareholders within the surf manufacturing community in order to focus on the next 5 years of technological innovation and to further research of environmentally sustainable manufacturing policies within the surf business.
Imagine the pinnacle of surf industry executives collaborating on a dynamic approach to set new manufacturing standards of sustainable industry practice through the development of cohesive corporate strategies and manufacturing guidelines to ensure that there is a wave for our kids to surf on in the future.
Combined, these stakeholders represent a large proportion of international capital. They have the ability to take decisive action that can have a sweeping impact on the future of the sport and health of the seas. This could redefine the pioneering image of the surf industry and generate a media campaign that would symbolize what has brought us all to the oceans in the first place.
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In the summer of 2011, thirty-five American, Canadian, and Fijian teen-agers will participate in an extraordinary dialogue and filmmaking experience. This program named OCEAN STORIES, aims to empower youth to report the changes they see in their marine environment and facilitate dialogue on how it affects their community’s viability.
The project combines the art of storytelling with hands on filmmaking workshops to create short films related to ocean literacy based media. Young filmmakers are paired with a mentor and tasked to make a short film in their community. Upon completion, the short films are uploaded to open source cinema (www.opensourcecinema.org). Here the productions can be viewed, shared, blogged, and further produced through continual revision and collaboration.
OCEAN STORIES works towards empowering youth to promote ocean literacy through dialogue, filmmaking, and new media. It puts the power of communication into the hands of the local youth and gives grassroots communities an international voice.