Surfrider Foundation
The world’s first, largest, and most successful surfing-based environmental organization, headquartered in San Clemente, California, with chapters worldwide; founded in 1984 by spacecraft computer systems engineer Glenn Hening and activist Tom Pratte, along with Malibu surfing icon Lance Carson.
Hening, who came up with the Surfrider name, later said he originally envisioned the group as “a sort of Cousteau Society for surfers,” with surf schools and outreach programs, a surf movie productio...