Surfrider Staff have curated a list of movies, books, podcasts, and more to check out related to Surfrider Foundation Issues during your time of home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Do you have a suggestion for something to add? Email it to us! oregon@surfrider.org
General Ocean Science
- Beachapedia - Surfrider’s coastal knowledge resource
- Oregon State University Research Seminar Recordings
Plastics
Movies
- Bag It
- A Plastic Ocean (on Netflix)
- Message in the Waves
- The Story of Stuff
- Tapped
- Straws
Books
- Floatsametrics
- Plastic Soup
- The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff Is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health-and a Vision for Change
- Moby-Duck
- Plastic: A Toxic Love Story
Articles
- Planet Plastic: How Big Oil and Big Soda kept a global environmental calamity a secret for decades, Rolling Stone
Coastal Preservation, Climate Change & Sea Level Rise
Movies
- Here is a huge list of climate change videos.
- Shored Up
- Chasing Coral
- Chasing Ice
- Sand Wars
- A Sea Change
Podcast
Direct Action
Books
- Be More Pirate - by Sam Conniff (website)
Podcasts
- Protect & Enjoy - Surfrider’s California Policy Podcast
- How Pirates Become the Navy
- Hidden Brain on NPR:
- Activism and Research on Oregon's High Seas: A story of two unlikely allies coming together to fight offshore mineral and gas exploration - A podcast by Oregon Policy Manager, Charlie Plybon
Enjoyment
Books
- Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life - by William Finnegan
- Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves - by James Nestor
- In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex - by Nathaniel Philbrick
- Blue Mind: The Surprising Science That Shows How Being Near, In, On, or Under Water Can Make You Happier, Healthier, More Connected, and Better at What You Do - by Wallace J Nichols
- The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One - by Sylvia A. Earle
- Let My People Go Surfing - by Yvon Chouinard