Recreate Responsibly

Pack Your Trash: How Santa Cruz Surfers Launched a Global Eco Movement

The iconic Pack Your Trash! design and cleanup campaign by the Pleasure Point Night Fighters. Credit: © Pack Your Trash (packyourtrash.com).

The Pleasure Point Night Fighters sparked the global beach-cleanup movement in the 1960s with a campaign launched around a slogan and the iconic “Pack Your Trash” logo. Also in Santa Cruz, Save Our Shores mentors students on ocean conservancy.

How to Pee in the Woods

There are many circumstances when it is helpful to know the correct way to relieve oneself when modern plumbing–or even an outhouse–is unavailable. Credit: AI-generated image, Shutterstock.

Leave No Trace principle number 3, ‘Dispose of Waste Properly,’ applies to human waste–even Number 1. Here is an easy guide to ethical outdoor urination.