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2 months ago | 
wavelengthmag.com | Chris Thomson |David Somerville |Ed Temperley
Ripples in the Void is a short surf film starring Ryan Callinan, with editing by Wade Carroll. The footage was captured over the past 12 months at WSL world tour stops, in Fiji, and in Ryan’s hometown of Newcastle, Australia. The film was shot by Jack Taylor, Beren Hall, Scott Hammonds, Cole Yamane, and Owen Milne.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
wavelengthmag.com | David Somerville |Chris Thomson |Ed Temperley
Ru Breadon (she/they) is a surf coach and environmental activist. They grew up in Cornwall and graduated from the University of Edinburgh in Sustainable Development (MA), but you don’t need buckets of student debt to know that our planet is more than a bit fucked. They are currently doing a traineeship in regenerative farming and want to contribute to imagining how radical social change can be achieved through collective climate action.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
wavelengthmag.com | David Somerville |Chris Thomson |Ed Temperley
This film explores seaweed plastics, a nuanced technology that is on the brink of transforming an industry and could potentially solve a devastating problem that impacts our oceans every day. These bioplastics can degrade naturally with no trace within 4 weeks if they end up in the ocean, ultimately saving animals, habitats and even us from being exposed to microplastics, which is a growing concern.
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Dec 1, 2023 | 
wavelengthmag.com | Ed Temperley
Jeff Martin’s flight had only just landed in Munich when he made time for us to chat the Yulex story. As a founder and CEO, it’s a transformative tale of shifting the wetsuit industry off petrochemicals and towards plant-based rubber. And this tale has a surprising catalyst. This interview is part of an ongoing series on Wavelength, lifting the lid on the stories behind the brands we use every day in surfing. Thanks for talking with me, Jeff. Can we start by exploring the origin of Yulex.
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Nov 24, 2023 | 
wavelengthmag.com | Ed Temperley
Surfers Against Sewage’s recent report has found 60% of popular locations are unsafe for swimming or surfing with pollution at unsafe levels. The annual water quality report explores the shocking state of UK bathing waters in a year when untreated sewage was discharged over 399,864 times into UK waterways – the equivalent of more than 1,000 discharge events every day.
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Nov 17, 2023 | 
wavelengthmag.com | Ed Temperley
This is part one of an ongoing series looking at how to ask the right questions of your surf brands and understand how marketing isn’t always what it seems. Shock horror, right? Brands want to sell you their products and might get a little excited talking up the good bits and omitting the less palatable. After all, there’s nothing more attractive now than the correctly priced product, which also sits on the ‘sustainable’ side of the eco fence.
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Oct 27, 2023 | 
wavelengthmag.com | Ed Temperley
As you know, SW France can be surfing heaven or hell. Luckily, the swell gods had been kind to us on the morning of our Maud Le Car interview, and having paddled out in the dark, we were flush with the stoke of scoring a perfect bank before the crowd pushed over the dunes with the rising sun. Think perfect cylinders catching that first dune-shadowed light as the swell jacked on the sand before spinning off down the line.
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Oct 17, 2023 | 
wavelengthmag.com | Ed Temperley
Were you in Bristol for the Blue Earth Summit? If so, you’ll be bathing in a bath of post-event stoke, having spent three days surrounded by purpose-led disruptors, innovators, mavericks, and mavens of change. Mixing talks on climate realism with positive change was the theme for the initial two days of talks and workshops at the Prop Yard, finishing up on Thursday night with a Surf Film Festival, The Futurenauts and the Nextmen.
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Oct 6, 2023 | 
wavelengthmag.com | Ed Temperley
Revolutions are a messy business, often best talked about over the dinner table than actually conducted in all their randomness and unintended consequences. Often, the best kind of revolutionary acts are the quiet ones, the swapping of philosophies due to the incoming paradigm just making more sense. And we’d venture to say there’s something of that shift happening in the workshop at Predn Surf founded by Peter Clemo, scion of a long line of boat builders.
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Sep 18, 2023 | 
wavelengthmag.com | Ed Temperley
Imagine you are a pressure group who have managed to get your issue to the top of the news agenda. But now you must push home that advantage and turn column inches and public awareness into legislative change. How do you cross that divide? You’ll probably be familiar with Hugo Tagholm, former CEO of Surfers Against Sewage.
