The Journal of Surfers Against Sewage Issue 108 | Spring 2019
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PIPELINEThe Journal of Surfers Against Sewage Issue 108 | Spring 2019 Chief Executive 614 APR 2019 Hugo Tagholm [email protected] Director of Fundraising & Operations Pete Lewis [email protected] Director of Campaigns & Projects Ben Hewitt [email protected] Finance Manager Katy Anstis [email protected] Deputy Head of Fundraising & Communications Jess North [email protected] Project Manager Amy Slack [email protected] Project Manager – Education Dom Ferris [email protected] Community Manager PIPELINE Jack Middleton [email protected] ENVIRONMENT WAVES COMMUNitY Fundraising Officer Jacey Russell [email protected] Face to Face Fundraising Manager Harrie Kerley [email protected] Community Fundraising Officer Katie Eddy [email protected] Surfers Against Sewage is a national Retail Officer Amy Fitzgerald [email protected] Marketing & Communications Officer marine conservation and campaigning Sally Fish [email protected] Trusts and Grants Officer charity that inspires, unites and empowers Louise Allen [email protected] Plastic Free Communities Officer communities to take action to protect Rachel Yates [email protected] Science & Policy Officer Harry Dennis [email protected] oceans, beaches, waves and wildlife. Finance & Fundraising Administrator Amy Milton [email protected] Education Administrator Emily van de Geer [email protected] Plastic Free Communities Administrator EDITORIAL 4 Gavin Parker [email protected] Written by Lucy Siegle Campaigns and Projects Administrator Laura Bryans [email protected] Photographers EARTH DEFENDERS 6 Conor McDonnell Angela Towers Peter Marshall Mike Lacey Meet the women dedicating their lives to the ocean WSL – Morris Shutterstock Jarrah Lynch Ian Lean and environment Camille Delbos Will Thomas Mammoth Screen Ben Duffy Lloyd Russell Taylor Butler- GENERATION SEA 42 Abbi Hughes Eldridge Over 4,000 of you took our survey and the results are startling Cover Illustration: Aimee Stapleford aimeestapleford.co.uk Thanks to guest editors Lucy Siegle HOW TO RUN A BEACH CLEAN 46 and Wyl Menmuir for their help putting this together. Regional Rep Amy Barclay gives her top tips for leading a clean Design: A-Side Print: St Austell Printing Company DON’T BOTTLE IT! 48 Pipeline is printed on 100% recycled and FSC certified paper, using If the DRS is worth doing, it’s worth doing right vegetable inks for minimum impact to the environment. Please recycle after reading! Registered Charity in England THE ‘DIRTY DOZEN’ ReTURNS 50 & Wales no. 1145877. Company Help us name and shame the worst offenders for plastic pollution Limited by Guarantee No. 2920815 VAT Registration No. 557675885 SAFER SeAS SeRVICE APP 52 Exciting news about our new water quality app Trustees: Ben Suffell – Chairman PLASTIC FRee SCHOOLS 56 SAS.ORG.UK SIGN UP: @SurfersAgainstSewage [email protected] Peter Crane – Treasurer Dr Heather Koldewey The Government calls for all schools to go plastic-free by 2022 Lauren Davies Alex Wade in partnership with Community Partners Lucy Siegle PLASTIC FRee BEAUTY 64 Richard Walker Jon Khoo Turn your bathroom into a plastic-free haven Chris Hides Lesley Kazan Pinfield 3 Lucy Siegle pictured with Christiana Figueres and Ellie Goulding at Aritic Basecamp, Davos. Image: Conor McDonnell R ette L S OR’ it D E Editor’s Editor’s Letter. As a trustee of SAS, I’m honoured to edit just like men. Isn’t it patronising to make Murray on being the first person to claim But we’re not just passively celebrating this special issue of Pipeline dedicated a song and dance about it? Well the truth two Olympic golds for tennis. Murray women’s achievements here either. Too to Women Earth Defenders at a time is, there is still a huge imbalance. Women’s corrected him, ‘I think Venus and Serena often today, the suggestion is that you of climate emergency. In these pages experiences and achievements in this have won about four each,’ he replied. look at a picture of Serena Williams when we distil the stories and experiences arena still suffer from a comparative lack Yassss Andy! you’re a kid and you will become her by of women at the forefront of activism, of funding, support and airtime. Bumping I would argue the women featured here the osmosis of ‘inspo’. Well, yes it’s great science, sport and advocacy to protect this into Lynn Robinson, the first ever President are born from a long and underappreciated to have role models, but we also need beautiful planet. of the British Mountaineering Council – a tradition of eco feminism. Some of our plans and pathways and support to make You might be wondering why we need massive achievement in and of itself - I contributors quoted Silent Spring as a sure the next generation can succeed. Our a special women’s issue? A few years ago a realised I knew next to nothing about the book that inspired them. Written by roll call of super-women in the following corporate advert #LikeAGirl went viral and history of women mountaineers, and rarely Rachel Carson in 1962 it was the first pages have been generous with their helped us think differently about equality. heard of them. text to spell out how industrial farming time and their advice. They’ve allowed Contributors of all ages were asked to run In fact there are countless examples and production was poisoning the earth. us to mine them for tips and stories so ‘like a girl’. The older the contributor, the where the achievements of women in Meanwhile one of the world’s greatest that we’ve created a sort of guide to earth more likely they were to flail about like the outdoors, sport and activism are environmental activists alive today on defending. If you’re invested in change NG 2019 NG I R P Penelope Pitstop and squeal. These people minimised. There is only one way to earth, Vandana Shiva cut her teeth in the and determined to bring it, you’ll want to considered girls to be inferior. However, respond when women’s achievements Chipko movement in India in the 1970s, read this issue, irrespective of gender. 108 S 108 E N kids - unencumbered by years of gender are ignored and that is to issue a loud against deforestation. This was a female Read it, enjoy, defend #likeawoman. ipeli P stereotyping - just ran. The point: girls correction! Remember to channel tennis movement, where women wrapped their International Women’s Day takes place run, boys run. player, Andy Murray. When sports arms around trees while men tried to chop on 8th March. In activism women mobilise change, presenter John Inverdale congratulated the forests down. Lucy Siegle 4 5 6 PipeliNE 108 SPRING 2019 EARTH DeFENDERS Image: Conor McDonnell Conor Image: High Enough. Mountain No Ain’t precious environment. our protecting of sake the for all overcoming are who world the around from women inspiring 17 to talk We 7 unprecedented rate. I think they are connection that must be protected. When own stories. As humans we communicate heroes, so when I heard about the team we lose that connection, we stop fighting by swapping stories that contain our own here I was determined to visit, with coffee. for the natural world. I have been a experiences. As a songwriter this appeals It’s the least we can do! [Ellie was spotted vegetarian for a long time, and I think that to me because songs are just condensed delivering coffee in rCUPs, the only cups was what started me thinking about the stories. They are parcels of intense in the world made from recycled single impact that we have on the environment, experience, wisdom, advice and ambition use coffee cups in a closed loop system, and the resources we use. From that I began – all the same ingredients that will work also available from the SAS Shop.] to untangle and learn about the impact of when we describe how we feel about ocean other stuff, like the fashion we consume. pollution, or species loss. S R E Are you frustrated about the lack of I’m very curious and always asking ND E F leadership on climate change? questions and I travel a lot. I always want You don’t seem to have any fears? De H H T Of course. Look at the contrast here, to know what changes people have noticed. I have loads. The biggest is public speaking. R A E between the commitment and dedication I went to Norway, with a friend who could I joke that you can tell climate change is an here at Basecamp, and that of global tell me how warm it was comparative emergency when you see me on platforms leaders in politics and business. Too many to previous years and it sparked a huge speaking out. I make myself get up there world leaders are shying away from their interest. The more I learned, the more and do it. That’s why I’ve found myself on Ellie Goulding responsibility to the planet and our future. shocked I became and then the more stage addressing UN audiences including I think climate change should be treated determinedly committed to change. It’s the late Kofi Annan, speaking in front of All hail, Ellie Goulding as the superstar as an emergency. It’s as if a meteorite is something that… has snowballed. Sorry to presidents ahead of COP24 and to 80 world singer fights for action on climate. A deep about to hit the earth. Instead we have use that word as we’re here looking at bits leaders and a huge audience at the global love of nature, a burning interest in climate world leaders playing for time and trying of ice in an arctic tent! conference to halt the trade in illegal science and a commitment to her young to negotiate with the science.