Sustainability at work!
As you most certainly know, California, home to Disneyland, Seaworld and Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch, has/had been gripped by a devastating drought over the past many years. Rain does not fall upon this arid land, or at least not until last year when there was much rain but it did not fall everywhere evenly, particularly not in the state’s central valley. Those flat lands are our industrial breadbasket where cows guzzle much water and crops drink much water and World Surf League professionals/rich businessmen surf much water.
As you most likely know, Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch is a “sustainable” facility in that it serves chia seed pudding for breakfast, uses upcycled surfboard foam dust for paving stones, harnesses “wind” power to pull the massive train through that precious water which is, according to SF Gate, being “conserved.”
Boy howdy, I bet the good folk in Stratord, just six miles from Surf Ranch’s reclaimed wooden gates, are very envious of all that conserved water. I bet they sometimes ride their bikes up 19th street there and peer over that reclaimed wooden gate to watch Kelly Slater and pals splash and giggle and hoot.
I bet they ride their bikes home, tuck their wheezing, thirsty children into bed and sing ancient lullabies about the end of the world.
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second most problematic near-wavepool town behind our friends at BSR
Y’all can’t blame KS for the drought – look at the poor farming practises – monocropping, no trees to hold groundwater in sight, boreholes to kill the watertable….. This is self-inflicted. At least surf-ranch is bringing in Johnny dollar-wallah to the area. What every farmer needs to do is open a surf ranch, and a chioffee shop and a hot-yoga dude-ranch. Or partner with Jeep in an “I Ride Dust Bowls” night classic.
Thats not to say the Ranch cannot do more – Kelly – how about throwing some serious tree-shade on your pool to stop evaporisation, and the bleaching of train tracks from discarded sun-block. What if you only sold locally grown Chia from the Stratford farmers? What if the milk in your lattes was freshly pulled less than 15 minutes bike-ride from you? What if the word “sustainable” was replaced with the words “locally beneficial”(because we all know whose bank balance the Ranch is sustaining)? What if all the ranch’s profits went into local community development?
Another Ranch is Possible, surely.
All that water (approximately 250,000 gallons a day) evaporating away so a handful of privileged cunts can play. Pumping it out of the groundwater aquifers and using a shitload of electricity. I’m guessing around 1500 kW a day. 45,000 per month. The average household uses around 900 in month.
Where’s the petition?
fucking knew it!
Yep. Total bullshit.
Them climates, they are a changin.
We’ve always had droughts. The area in question was a giant lake to begin with. They pumped it to LA for their needs.
Reclaimed gates are so charming…. lend an air of vintage to any property. Attention to design detail is what Ke11y is about. So sustainably conscious.
You expect plastic gates entering to pay your 5 grand for 8 waves Chas?
No one likes claims. Even if they’re re-done.
The grapes of wrath Pro
The winner gets to drink breast milk.
only the finest cambodian.
Kelly Slater, a breadwinner basket case basking in the glory of being a breadbasket farm to (water)table killer. What a psycho.
Forget it Chas, it’s Chinatown
one of the all time best!
Gittes: I said I want the truth!
Mrs. Mulwray: She’s my sister and my daughter!…My father and I – understand? Or is it too tough for you?
The Ranch, sustainably redirecting solar power since 2017
1976
Nothing chemical fertilizers, flavorless frankenplants, a bunch of underpaid immigrant pickers and more water from the Sacramento river won’t fix.
Oh, and F^kk Kelly Slater and all of his surf “lifestyle” money perverts. When is his Pipe heat?
He will be flying his private helicopter in for his round three heat at Haleiwa powered by turtle oil.
The locals are fine with it…
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So so dry even the basketballs the children play with are becoming chapped, and the local store has nothing but cans of dust.
Stratford Upon Cowshit