Protect Our Winters was founded in 2007 by pro snowboarder Jeremy Jones. They tackle issues ranging from plastic pollution, to climate change, to clean water. Founded by surfers in Malibu in 1984, the organization is largely driven by volunteers around the country. in San Clemente, the Surfrider Foundation dedicates its efforts to protecting coastlines, beaches and surf spots around the United States. Combining their passions, Coast also supports the Surfrider Foundation and Protect Our Winters. Having worked for iconic brands like Billabong, Harris comes from a surfing background, while his partner, Ben Warner, comes from the ski world. A proud member of 1% For the Planet, portions of their proceeds from their events go straight to environmental causes around the world. Putting their money where their mouth is, Harris and the crew at the Coast Film and Music Festival are deeply committed to a number of environmental movements. Perhaps ahead of its time in some regards, located on Pacific Coast Highway, the Mystic Arts World also offered yoga classes, art, clothing, jewelry, health food, books and a meditation room. ![]() A group of surfers, smugglers, hippies and cosmic warriors known as the Brotherhood of Eternal Love settle into the canyons of Laguna, using the Mystic Arts World as a front for distributing some of the most potent LSD of the era, known as Orange Sunshine. It was happening a beautiful, colorful collage of people creating a unique environment where nothing of its kind had existed.”Īround this same time the Mystic Arts World opens in Laguna and ostensibly becomes ground zero for Southern California psychedelia. “It was much more than a place for artists to show and sell their artwork. “The Sawdust was a child of the times,” says Mike Heintz, a Laguna-based silversmith. A youthful movement seeking freedom of expression, it was as much of an art show as it was a gathering of an artistic tribe. The first is the Sawdust Festival, which kicked off in 1965. There are two big cultural drivers during the Age of Aquarius. By the 1770s, Spanish missionaries and settlers began to arrive en masse. It’s widely believed the Spanish had landed at San Pedro Bay.Ĭabrillo’s tepid arrival was a harbinger of darker times to come for the Kizh/Gabrieleño. Situated about 30 miles off the coast of the California mainland, the next day the Spaniards arrived at the Baya de los Fumos (dubbed the “Bay of Smokes” because of all the smoke from the various cooking fires in the area). ![]() It was in 1542 that Spanish explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo was first greeted by the original locals at the island of Santa Catalina (he didn’t actually set foot on the now-popular tourist destination). Descendants of the original Shoshonean nation who inhabited the Los Angeles Basin to the north all the way to Aliso Creek to the south, the sprawling Channel Islands to the west and the occasionally snow covered peaks of the San Gabriel Mountains to the east, their ancestors date back as far as 12,000 BC. Looking back to look forward, it was the Indigenous Kizh/Gabrieleño peoples, sometimes referred to as the Tongva, that called Laguna home when the Spanish first arrived in the mid 1500s.
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