Stay Entertained While Staying Home

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

• Climate Monitor

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:
  • The Influence You Have: Why We Fail to See Our Power Over Others
  • Warnings, Warnings Everywhere: Why We Sometimes Ignore Looming Disasters
• 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