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Turkish Towels for Any Season
One of the things that attracted me to Turkish towels was their versatility. The most obvious use of course is a towel for the beach or pool, but there are so many more. They are truly a season-less item that can be used throughout your house and daily life to add to your decor or wardrobe. During the cooler months I love using them as tablecloths as well as scarves and of course in your bathroom, as our Turkish towels make a great alternative to regular terry bath towels. They dry quicker and are very absorbent. We recommend our Antibes and Diamond collections for anyone that wants to add some texture and style to their powder room. And with the holidays coming up, our Turkish towels also make great Christmas presents or holiday gifts and are a very nice hostess gift for a holiday dinner you are attending or if you are staying with someone as an out of town guest. Check back often for more tips on how to use our Turkish towels and please contact us Ciao@RivieraTowel.com if you have any questions. We love to hear from you!
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Towels for Trophies in 1st Annual Aquathon
The Riviera Towel Company was a proud sponsor of the The Channel Keeper Foundation's 1st annual Aquathon. Thematically on point the Santa Barbara towels were used as prizes for this family-friendly, multi-sport, on-the-water event. Featuring a Surfathon, Swimathon, Supathon and Mega-Aquathon the event brought the Santa Barbara community together to raise awareness and funds to protect and restore our beloved ocean "Our collections are more than beautiful turkish towels they are the embodiment of our desire to protect and restore our oceans on a global scale. We hope that creating this relationship with the Channel Keeper Foundation will turn our towels into waves of advocacy." - Co-Founder Shannon DiPadova Everyone is looking forward to next year's Aquathon and in the meanwhile The Riviera Towel Company is donating 10% of sales from the Santa Barbara towel collection to help Channel Keeper keep up the good work. sbchannelkeeper Channelkeeper's mission is to protect and restore Santa Barbara Channel and its watersheds through science based advocacy, education, field work and enforcement. #sbck #SBChannelkeeper #channelislands#science #oceanadvocate #citizenscience
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National Coastal Cleanup Day
Every year thousands of tons of garbage winds up in the oceans, with 60% of that being composed of plastic material. Plastics especially last a very long time in the ocean, and are in such abundance that there are 46,000 individual pieces of plastic litter for every square mile of ocean. Plastics are very hazardous to marine life, killing more than a million birds and over 100,000 seals, turtles, and whales, and an immense number of fish in our ocean. Coastal Cleanup Day encourages us to get out to our beaches and help to limit this problem by cleaning up the garbage that has washed up on shore, and that left by visitors every day. Learn What You Can Do In Your Community History of Coastal Cleanup DayCoastal Cleanup Day was established by the Ocean Conservancy, an organization that work to help protect the ocean from the challenges it faces every year. They serve as a voice for the ocean, speaking of the issues that aren’t often represented through social networking, publicized updates, and challenges like asking your waitress to skip the straw for your drink. Efforts like that work towards a trash free ocean. Trash in the water impacts the world on many levels, including harming wildlife, humans, and impacting the livelihood of those who work on the ocean. It causes economic damage by affecting tourism and recreation and the money they bring into those communities that are the ocean shore. The Ocean Conservatory knows that solving these issues requires bold initiatives and eliminating the sources of the trash that damages the ocean. Empowering people to take an active role in the preservation and cleaning up of the ocean are important parts of helping conservation of the ocean. By spreading tips and techniques to help reduce trash they help people everywhere aid the cleanup of our oceans. How to celebrate Coastal Cleanup DayThere’s a lot of options out there, starting with something as simple as taking a day at the beach and carrying a roll of garbage bags. Clean up the mess on the beach and help to reduce the amount of garbage that gets into the ocean by hauling it away. You can also check in with the Ocean Conservatory to get tips and tricks to help you be more conscientious about your lifestyle and the effect it has on the ocean. Coastal Cleanup Day is your chance to really make a difference, and help others to do the same!
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Local Event: Santa Barbara Channelkeeper First Annual Aquathon
We are excited that Riviera Towel Company is a sponsor of Santa Barbara Channelkeeper's first annual Santa Barbara AQUATHON on Saturday, September 17th, 2016 at Leadbetter Beach! There are several great events and participants will have a chance to win a towel from our Santa Barbara collection. Event details: Santa Barbara Channelkeeper in collaboration with Waterkeeper Alliance’s SPLASH event series, this family-friendly, multi-sport on-the-water event will bring the Santa Barbara community together to raise awareness and funds to protect and restore our beloved ocean. Everybody is invited to dive in, so register to participate or volunteer, help spread the word, bring your family, bring your friends, and most importantly, have fun out on the water! SURFATHON – Just for kids. 14 years and under! SWIMATHON – All ages. Register for the 500m or 1K! SUPATHON – All ages. Register for the 1.5k SUP Race! MEGA-AQUATHON – All ages. Register for the 1k swim AND the 1.5k SUP Race! Whether you are a serious athlete in training, a water-lover looking to have a salty good time, or a family with a little of both, the Santa Barbara AQUATHON is the place to be on Saturday, September 17th. Bring your friends and family, rally your group or club, get registered, and we’ll show how truly committed Santa Barbarians raise funds to protect our beautiful beaches, coastline and community.
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Ken Hinmen's New Paper Outlines a More Natural Way to Fish in Wild Oceans
To sustain life in the ocean while at the same time ensuring a healthy future for fishing at sea, we need to fish as part of the natural system, as one among many predators, argues a new white paper released today by the conservation group Wild Oceans. Resource Sharing: The Berkeley Criterion, written by Wild Oceans president Ken Hinman, offers a more natural, more balanced and far wiser alternative to our present way of managing marine fisheries, specifically those for key prey or forage species. Our present policies, he says, are producing an ocean environment incapable of sustaining life in all its wild diversity and abundance. “Despite all the rhetoric about ‘sustainable fishing’, we still fish for prey species as if we were not subject to the same natural laws as other predators, as though we could fish without regard for sustaining other forms of life in the sea,” says Hinman, who has spent a good part of the last 20 years studying the science and conservation of forage fish. “Fishing strategies that do not recognize the needs of other predators and the health of the ecosystem as a whole are simply not sustainable.” The 40-page white paper explains why our current fishing policies are ecologically harmful (Part One), dispels common misconceptions about where fisheries management is now relative to where we need to be (Part Two), and reveals an emerging consensus among scientists and policy-makers about how we should be protecting the ocean food web, right now (Part Three). For instance, Hinman discovered a large school of well-regarded fishery ecologists, from all over the world, that endorse what he calls “the 75% solution,” which recommends leaving at least three-fourths of a virgin fish population in the water to serve its ecological role as prey. The publication of Resource Sharing comes at a time when there are critical decisions facing the New England, Mid-Atlantic and Pacific Fishery Management Councils, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, and the U.S. Congress; decisions that will determine how we define ecologically sustainable fishing in the future. “Sharing the resource among fisheries and natural predators is a novel concept that is nevertheless essential to our co-existence with wild oceans,” Hinman says. “The future of fishing, I believe, is in the balance.” To download a copy of Resource Sharing: The Berkeley Criterion, click here.
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Behind the Scenes @ On Butterfly Beach
Santa Barbara's Butterfly beach is a gem on the coast line, where you'll see porposies reguarly play in the waves as much as the locals. There's an old tree stump that doubles as a pirate ship for the kids. The backlit cliffs provide one gorgeous backdrop for our family and friends who brought our turkish towels to life in the golden rays of a California sunset. Even our dog Super Cooper got into the action playing tug-o-war with our kids. Here's a little video of one beautiful day on the coast reminding us why we donate proceeds from the sale of every towel to fund marine organizations who protect our favorite playground. Please feel free to share with your social network!
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