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Our vision is of a beautiful, restored, and accessible coast for current and future Californians. |
The California State Coastal Conservancy develops and implements projects that protect, restore, and enhance natural, recreational, and economic resources along California’s coast, coastal watersheds, the ocean, and within the San Francisco Bay Area. The SCC supports projects through direct funding and grants to local agencies and nonprofit organizations that do the following: (1) protect and enhance the natural environment, agricultural and scenic lands, and urban waterfronts in coastal areas; (2) increase public access to coastal areas, build trails, and increase opportunities for outdoor recreation; (3) support K-12 education programs about coastal resources; and (4) prepare for and mitigate impacts of climate change in coastal areas.
The SCC was established in 1976 to protect and improve natural lands and waterways, help people access and enjoy the outdoors and sustain local economies. The Conservancy has completed over 2,400 projects along the California coastline and in the San Francisco bay. These projects include preserving almost 20,000 acres of wetlands, dunes, and wildlife habitat, building hundreds of miles of trails along the coastline and assisting in the completion of more than 100 urban waterfront projects.
The SCC was established in 1976 to protect and improve natural lands and waterways, help people access and enjoy the outdoors and sustain local economies. The Conservancy has completed over 2,400 projects along the California coastline and in the San Francisco bay. These projects include preserving almost 20,000 acres of wetlands, dunes, and wildlife habitat, building hundreds of miles of trails along the coastline and assisting in the completion of more than 100 urban waterfront projects.
'Our vision is of a beautiful, restored, and accessible coast for current and future Californians. We act with others to protect and restore, and increase public access to, California’s coast, ocean, coastal watersheds and the San Francisco Bay Area.'
"The Endless Summer stands in a class all its own. It manages to illustrate the virtues of surfing to non-surfers and surfers alike in a way no surf-based film has done since." Zach Weisberg, The Inertia Founder
For over half a century The Endless Summer has been revered and adored by surfers and non-surfers the world over. Dedicated to the carefree concept of chasing waves and an “endless summer” around the globe, the themes and images presented in Bruce Brown’s magnum opus shined a bright light on the idea that it’s not only okay to daydream, it’s okay to chase those dreams. At the time of the film’s release in 1964, the world found itself engulfed in the nuclear arms race that was the Cold War, as well as an escalating conflict in southeast Asia. In its own unique, happy-go-lucky way, The Endless Summer gave everyone the feeling that everything was going to be alright if they could just get to the beach. It subsequently broke box office records and remains the archetype for all other surf films to come after. More than 50 years since its release and The Endless Summer still typifies these ideals. As Brown so famously narrated, “With enough time and enough money, you could spend the rest of your life following the summer around the world.”
CALIFORNIA - "one of the most surf-immersed cultures on Earth."
"Nothing represents the California Dream better than surfing -- riding the waves and living in harmony with the beautiful beaches and ocean of our Golden State. Surfing in California has a rich history and culture. The surfing lifestyle attracts people from all around the world and generates over $6 billion in annual retail sales. Surfing is an iconic California sport and an important part of the multibillion dollar California coastal economy, particularly in the tourism and recreation industries." California Assembly member Al Muratsuchi (D-Torrance).
"And the image’s hero, the surfer, was a new kind of hero. Well, he was old and new. If he’d been born a hundred years earlier, he’d have been a cowboy. He had the cowboy’s instinctive loathing of fences, love of the great wide-open. And what was standing at the farthest edge of America, surveying the Pacific, but the next logical phase of Manifest Destiny and lighting out for the territory and Westward ho. The surfer, though, was new in the sense that he preferred to be in harmony with nature rather than in opposition to it, was seeking not to conquer but to coexist, and beautifully because if he was an athlete he was every bit as much a poet too. A dharma bum turned beach bum." Lili Anolik.
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"My sense is that the image’s diffidence is what draws you in, turning you into the aggressor, the one who’s got to have it or else, and that the simplicity is what makes you stay, elevating as it does the young men’s quest, trivial to the point of absurd in one sense (looking for a wave to ride on? pfft, kid stuff), ultra-profound in another (these guys are trying to walk on water, defy the laws of nature, do what Jesus did!), to the level of myth. The Endless Summer, one of the great movie titles, is an idea that its protagonists are trying to embody: follow summer around the globe so that it goes on indefinitely, keep moving and time stops, stands still—you never grow up, never grow old. You yourself are that perfect wave, one that forever crests, never breaks." Lili Anolik
From Santa Barbara to Imperial Beach, Southern California is one of the most surf-immersed cultures on Earth, rivaling that of Coolangatta and Torquay in Australia or Waikiki Beach on Oahu. The Southland isn't just the location of the Velcro Jungle -- where Quiksilver, Volcom, RVCA, Hurley, Billabong, O'Neill, Lost, and dozens of other companies have their headquarters -- but it's also the home of some incredible surf -- Rincon, Malibu, the famous Huntington Beach Pier, the Wedge, Lower Trestles (one of the best, most consistent waves on the planet), Oceanside Harbor, Swamis, and Blacks to name just a few world-class waves.
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