SurfAid Launches Relief Effort for People Affected by Massive Earthquakes in Mentawai Islands
As many of you know, two massive earthquakes of magnitude 8.4 & 7.9 on the Richter Scale have struck the region of the Mentawai Islands, followed by numerous aftershocks in the 5-6 range. SurfAid International, USA is currently receiving donations for relief efforts […]

Surfing with one person per board is hard enough, imagine trying to surf with two! Check out Tiare (Betty Belts Team Rider) and Bobby Freidman tandem surfing in the Maldives!

Edited and submitted by Betty Belts team rider Holly Beck.

Please consider nominating us for the COOP America People’s Choice Award as Green Business Of The Year! Only 15 more days left, closes Sept. 18th.
The ten COOP America Aproved Green Businesses with the most nominations will be feautured. It would be awesome if Betty Belts was one of them. We are already a member of […]

Betty Belts Team Rider Mary Osborne takes to the Teen Vogue Fashion Show at the US Open of Surfing at Huntington Beach. Lots of fun!

I did it! I got the store open and running. Still a few things incomplete, but all the goods are here and ready to sell. Find surf jewelry and sustainable accessories including our Surfaid wave necklace, peace love and aloha bracelets, hand beaded belts and recycled glass jewelry. It’s surf fashion and beyond for the […]

Interesting what possibilities are out there.
Hopefully this alternative fuel source in the making doesn’t get overlooked.
Someone found a way to turn saltwater into fuel:
http://stopgeek.com/retired-man-looking-for-cancer-cure-stumbles-on-cheap-fuel-alternative.html

All I really wanted was to move the Betty Belts headquarters downtown, out of the bland office park/warehouse environment we’ve been stuck in since I fell in love with David and followed my heart to Ventura two years ago. I wanted to move the office out of there and be in vibrant downtown Ventura, which […]

“If you could fast-forward 10,000 years and do an archaeological dig…you’d find a little line of plastic. What happened to those people? Well, they ate their own plastic and disrupted their genetic structure and weren’t able to reproduce. They didn’t last very long because they killed themselves.” - Oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer, Ph.D., an expert on […]

Come join the fun this summer and learn to surf or improve your skills with Betty Belts Team Rider and pro surfer Mary Osborne. You may know Mary as the longboard winner of MTV Surf Girls, or from hosting 54321 and other shows on Fox Sports and Fuel TV.
All ages are welcome at Mary’s […]

This from a Trans World Surf article about how some big box retailers marketing themselves as “authentic” are nothing of the sort. I know other independent designers whose designs have been copied by many so-called authentic brands. The sad thing is, people don’t even realize that these brands don’t truly have their own identity, but […]