Live from the Lighted Boat Parade with Kyle Thiermann of Surfing for Change and Music by Coyote Slim

We are live at the  the Santa Cruz Lighted Boat Parade with the KSCO radio broadcast sponsored by the famous Aldo's restaurant. Mauro Olivieri, son John along with general manager Alfredo Servin have taken over active family operation of Aldo’s Harbor Restaurant. We are at the Santa Cruz Yacht Harbor's annual Lighted Boat Parade. We talk to Kyle Theirmann, 22 year old pro surfer, who has created some serious waves around the world. He is the creator and host of the hit youtube series, Surfing For Change. Combining surfing great waves with making a series of short films about current issues, Thiermann focuses on the power you have to create a better world through everyday decisions.His first youtube movie in the series, Claim Your Change, details how money kept in multinational banks is used to finance destructive projects all over the world. One such project, a proposed coal-fired powerplant in Constitucion, Chile, home of a world-class surf spot and fishing village, is the subject of the movie.This video inspired people to move hundreds of million of dollars out of centralized banks into local banks and credit unions, and reached people throughout North America, South America, Africa and much of Europe.Since then, he has made movies ranging from the importance of shopping locally, to following a plastic bag to Hawaii. See http://surfingforchange.com/ . We enjoy the live music of Coyote Slim, an advocate of locally produced food and sustainable living.  Coyote Slim plays the Farm Fresh Blues! A farmer-musician by inclination, Coyote Slim is also a writer, an arborist, and a steward of the land. You can contact him at www.coyoteslim.com. Thank you  Santa Cruz Yacht Club (http://www.scyc.org) and Aldo's Restaurant (www.aldos-cruz.com) for a really fun event!