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Serge Dedina and Wild Sea on KPBS-These Days
On January 24th, I appeared on KBPS Radio’s These Days to discuss Wild Sea and a large sewage spill that impacted water quality in South San diego CAVANAUGH: Which did the recent big sewage spill start...
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Bulldozers and Estuaries
On June 22, 1980, I learned that then Imperial Beach Mayor Brian Bilbray was planning on damming up the Tijuana Estuary. He argued that it was to be done to stop the flow of polluted water into the...
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Swell Stories
My IB and Coronado Southwest Surf Column from this week. January was a great month to be a surfer in San Diego. Lots of consistent medium size surf with excellent conditions. Unfortunately I’ve been...
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Celebrating a New Sewage Plant on the U.S.-Mexico Border
From my Southwest Surf Column of May 18, 2011: Last Friday I attended the inauguration of the new upgrade of the International Wastewater Treatment Plant in San Ysidro. This ribbon-cutting event marked...
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Environment and Hope on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Jared Blumenfeld of the EPA inspects a trash pile in the Tijuana River Valley with reporters from Uniivision-San Diego. Yesterday my Wildcoast colleagues Ben McCue, Paloma Aguirre and I took a tour of...
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The Ocean Health Index and Cleaning up Our Coast
Paloma Aguirre and Diana Castaneda of WiLDCOAST at a recent Tijuana River Valley cleanup. Last Friday I missed the first real north swell of the season to attend a meeting organized by the University...
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Ocean Water Quality 101: Or Why You Shouldn’t Surf After it Rains
Tijuana River sewage plume. With the recent storms that dropped more than an inch of rain along the coast in Southern California and more than an inch and a half in the mountains, rivers, gullies,...
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Paddling from Trestles to Tijuana
Last day of the paddle at the Silver Strand State Beach in Coronado. One of the most important tools for evaluating the state of our coast, is to carry out a transect from top to bottom. Two San Diego...
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WiLDCOAST and Nortec Collective Hiperboreal Fight Plastic to Save the Sea
One of the most important things we can do as we see the impact of globalization on the state of our oceans is to communicate the solutions to our problems as broadly as possible. At WiLDCOAST we’ve...
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Surfing the U.S.-Mexico Border Fence
My son Israel surfing next to the new ocean border fence-barrier at the U.S.-Mexico border. I grew up just a couple of miles from the U.S.-Mexico border. As a child, my parents would take me and my...
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Street Art in Tijuana: Avenida Revolucion and Pasaje Rodriguez
Artists and restauranteurs are trying to bring Tijuana back. It is not an easy task. The once proud Avenida Revolucion, the heart and soul of touristy Tijuana is struggling to stay alive. Artists have...
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My New Book, Surfing the Border
I will launch the tour for my new book, Surfing the Border, on Saturday January 24th in Coronado and Imperial Beach. I will be speaking and signing books at the Coronado Library Winn Room from 2-3pm...
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