A sign on the 130-year-old pier at Saltburn-by-the-Sea warns people not to jump off it. On a big surf day surfers make their way to the end of the sturdy 206 metre structure and jump like lemmings into the cold, murky North Sea. Words: Simon Palmer Photos: Ian Forsyth

Quietly considered and eloquent, you might know of Nathan Oldfield through his films 'Lines From A Poem' and 'Seaworthy'. Surf Screen's Christiaan Bailey popped him a few duly thoughtful questions about creative motivations and the surf film industry. Photos: Nathan Oldfield

Drift tracked down Mark Jeremias and Jason Baffa, directors of ‘Singlefin: Yellow’, to talk about their new project, ‘One California Day’, and find out their thoughts on surf culture and tradition from Crescent City to Imperial Beach. Words: Jamie Bott

A worthy addition to European surfing culture, the surfilmfestibal festival attempts to connect the global surfing community through moving picture, art and education. Words: Howard Swanwick. Photos: surfilmfestibal

London ad exec Tom Birmingham set off in November in search of adventure on the Southwest Indian coastline. Accompanied by guesthouse owners Ed and Sofie of Soul and Surf in Kerala, he soon found himself surfing uncharted waves to an audience of school children and fisherman. Words and Photos: Tom Birmingham

Co-founder of the original Aussie counter-culture surf bible, Tracks, and director of 'Morning of the Earth', Alby Falzon lives up to his reputation as the spiritual father of the alternative surf lifestyle. Words: Jair Bortoleto Photos: Courtesy of Alby Falzon

Green gas from Ecotricity

July 18, 2010 | Words By: Angela

We’re stoked to be able to say that Drift HQ is now fossil fuel free, because we’ve just signed up for Ecotricity’s Green Gas. We’ve been plugged into their electricty tariff for a while now, so jumped at the chance when they announced a new green gas product.

Sign up to the new tariff, and your money goes towards building gasmills that harness the power of anaerobic bacteria to turn waste food into biogas. We currently throw away some 18million tonnes of waste food in England every year – these new mills will feed the resultant biogas into the national grid, and the money from your bill will contribute to supporting and expanding this green network.

Unlike other energy companies, whose ‘green’ tariffs pay mere lipservice to the idea of environmental responsibility, Ecotricity is 100% focussed on alternative energy sources. The more people who purchase their power from Ecotricity, the more they can do to change the face of electricity and gas production in the UK. So what are you waiting for? It’s incredibly easy to switch, and it doesn’t cost the earth either.

Head on over to Ecotricity to find out more.

 

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