Rising Tide: The Ocean Podcast
Podcast & Audio Production
Overseeing the Rising Tide: The Ocean Podcast's production, promotion, and strategic growth. Fluid Studios manages podcast development, from concept to publication, ensuring high-quality content that resonates with audiences. We develop social media and content marketing strategies to maximize engagement and reach. By collaborating with the Blue Frontier team, we maintain the podcast's vision, enhance its impact, and leverage analytics to optimize performance, drive continuous improvement, and contribute to the organization's dynamic leadership and innovative solutions.
A refreshing, irreverent dive into the lives, work, and explorations of today’s leading and diverse ocean voices.
Each half-hour episode co-hosted by David Helvarg of Blue Frontier and Vicki Nichols Goldstein of the Inland Ocean Coalition sails through lively discussions with our guests about marine life, culture, and critical issues affecting our rapidly changing seas. Informative, enlightening, and often humorous it is an invaluable resource for anyone passionate about understanding, enjoying, and protecting our salty blue world.
A Deep Dive into Surfing with Cigarettes
Every year, trillions of cigarette butts get flicked onto beaches, sidewalks, and storm drains — and from there, straight into the sea. They're the single most littered item on the planet, a toxic little bomb of plastic and carcinogens disguised as a habit. Surfer and filmmaker Taylor Lane decided to do something about it: he built a surfboard out of 10,000 of them.
What started as a beach cleanup stunt became a movement. In this episode, documentary filmmaker Ben Judkins joins Rising Tide to talk about The Cigarette Surfboard — the film that followed Lane from Santa Cruz beach cleanups to Mavericks' big-wave lineup, and from a Surfrider design contest to city council chambers, where his boards helped push through bans on single-use cigarette filters across three California cities. It's a story about surfers using their platform for something bigger than the next wave — and about what it actually takes to hold Big Tobacco accountable, not just for the cancers it causes, but for the plastic it leaves behind on every beach in the world.
The Cigarette Surfboard is streaming now through September 27th at eventive.org.
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You can also listen to Rising Tide: The Ocean Podcast on a variety of platforms including Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, Android, Pandora, iHeartRadio, Blubrry, Podchaser, Gaana, the Podcast Index, and Deezer. Additionally, the podcast is broadcast on several radio stations: KGUA Radio (Public Media for the Mendonoma Coast), KWMR (Point Reyes West Marin Community Radio), KGNU & KGNU-FM (Denver & Boulder Community Radio Stations), KKRN (Round Mountain California Listener Supported Radio), & G-TOWN RADIO (Germantown Community Radio, Philadelphia).
Check out the Our Blue Frontier on Substack for transcripts, emerging ocean & climate issues highlights, and the lighter side of the Environmental Apocalypse.