Surfrider's Ocean Policy, Lobbying & Community Activism | Stefanie Sekich-Quinn

00:00 Welcome Stefanie Sekich-Quinn 00:43 Passion started in childhood 02:30 Save the Trestles Campaign 06:50 OKTie Wooden Glasses on Etsy 07:30 Policy & Implementation 11:00 State by State Report Card 15:30 Collecting Data 18:00 Public access to beaches 19:20 Outdated thinking 21:20 Real Estate Value & Risk 23:00 Hawaii's Vulnerability Assessment 25:50 Ocean Based Climate Solutions Act 28:00 Biden Administration Progress 29:00 Coastal Tourism Economics 32:00 Plastic Pollution 5-Gyers 34:00 Plastic emissions & lifecycle 36:40 How do you prioritize projects to focus on? 39:00 Need 30% Marine Protected Areas (MPA's) 40:50 West Coast MPA's 41:40 How to get stakeholders to agree? 45:00 Spillover positive effect of MPA's 46:00 Empowering people to make a change 47:00 Japan Surfrider & Surf Culture 50:00 Community Scientists & Data Collecting 51:20 Counting Beach Plastics for Databases 52:40 Any priorities for worldwide change? 53:20 Managed retreat for coastal properties 54:55 Switch to 100% Renewables by 2030 56:30 Personal action: investing in solar & plantbased 57:20 What can you do for meaningful change in your life? 58:30 Ocean-friendly gardens, businesses 1:00:00 Surfrider around the world 1:01:00 YES Please come to Japan! Stefanie Sekich-Quinn of Surfrider Foundation is the Sr. Manager Coast and Climate Initiative talks about the Surfrider Foundation mission and projects, but also her personal sustainable challenges and ability to rally diverse members of a community to join a protest to protect coastal areas from development like she has been doing for the last 20 years at the 'Save the Trestles' campaign in California. https://www.surfrider.org/coastal-blog/entry/15-years-thousands-of-activists-one-goal-save-trestles-forever LINKS * Bio for Stefanie Sekich-Quinn is on Surfrider website: https://www.surfrider.org/our-team/staff/stefanie-sekich-quinn (https://www.surfrider.org/our-team/staff/stefanie-sekich-quinn) * Plastic Pollution Initiatives at