The HUI300 Challenge is a Surfrider Foundation, San Diego Chapter, initiative to encourage independent yet measurable team efforts to clean watersheds and beaches throughout the year. Teams (or “hui”) of 3 or more remove debris from watersheds or beaches during the year. Read More.

A century ago in Waikiki, a small group of surfers and canoe paddlers formed a Hawaiian “hui” to share their passion for the ocean and water sports. Duke Kahanamoku established Hui Nalu, or Hui of the Waves, in 1908, and later became America’s renowned Olympic swimming and water polo medalist, heroic lifesaver of daring ocean rescues, and legendary Surfer of the Twentieth Century. Read More.

Mei is the name of a female turtle whose shell, when still very young, became entangled in the center of a discarded plastic six-pack ring. Marine life ensnared by drifting plastic trash usually does not survive as they cannot move about to find food or escape from predators. And yet, miraculously Mei survived, while she and her shell continued to grow, except for her middle with that awful plastic ring still attached. Fortunately Mei was rescued by kind researchers from NOAA and set free. Read More.

"We need to empower our Surfrider members at the grassroots level.  Surfrider thrives because individual members willingly join their time and energies to protect our ocean, waves, and beaches."  That's Julia Chunn, Surfrider and marine environmental activist, speaking out as a staunch advocate of the grassroots member as the key to Surfrider's continuing success.  Read More.

To prevail in the HUI300 Challenge, a Hui of three or more people must perform a minimum of 300 days of ‘eco-service’ during the year. A day of eco-service represents a minimum day’s contribution to the environment at a watershed or beach, by removing three or more pieces of debris or trash. This is similar to the standard used by Cobi Emery, a young California surfer in his personal Pick-Up-3 campaign to encourage others to keep beaches clean. Read More.

Surfrider has benefited from the initiative and efforts of a large number of volunteers in the crusade to protect our oceans, waves, beaches and marine life from the devastating damage by individual and commercial pollution. Every volunteer deserves to be recognized for their time and energy towards beach and watershed cleanups, water quality monitoring, campaigning to raise public awareness of water re-use, ocean-friendly gardens, point-source pollution, water treatment, plastic alternatives, beach smoking, or numerous other activities that affect watersheds, beaches, and the marine environment. And yet amidst all these volunteers, there is some who standout as volunteer environmental heroes. Read More.