Recycling What’s Left…It’s the Right Thing to Do

Posted on December 22, 2011 by dsabori

As the Holidays come to a pinnacle here, I know what you’re all thinking…what am I going to do with all the stuff that comes with all the stuff I’m going to get/give?! ;) Well perhaps not, but it’s a good thought to have…

With that said, I’d like to share a few services here at Volcom that we’ve installed here in the Kitchen Area Recycling Center (KARC) for our employees:

Styrofoam Recycling!

We’ve teamed up with Marko Foam to take any clean, packaging style Styrofoam. No food containers, just packaging waste. The styrofoam collected will go directly to Marko to be blown into new EPS surfboard blanks. My last 2 boards were shaped with Marko’s Envirofoam Core and I love them. Typically, Styrofoam is a difficult item to find recycling for, so this is a great service the Marko crew is providing. There’s a new bin in the recycling area.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Skateboard Recycling!

Got a new board for Christmas? Cleaning out the garage and have old boards that need a home…drop them off in the iRide, iRecycle bin. This is a program where the guys at Art of Board take old boards, turn them into building materials and creatively make furniture, and other interior decorating components. And, to boot, their Giving Back in a big way to the Tony Hawk Foundation and many more worthy skate related organizations.

These guys are awesome and they do some amazing work. Check them out here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gift Wrap!

Lastly, gift wrap. I hear many conflicting theories on this…it can be recycled, it can’t. It really just depends on what type of paper it is, and where you’re trying to recycle it. I’ve called the Orange Coast Recycling Center, and they are indeed taking holiday gift wrap for recycling. This is just a PSA (we’re not collecting gift wrap here on site), so please contact them directly, or just show up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Holidays, from all of us here at Volcom!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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B.Y.O.B. in the NYC

Posted on December 15, 2011 by dsabori

Volcom Retail Stores Offer Incentive to B.Y.O.B.

The Volcom NYC team wants to remind you that there’s still time to go bagless and get a discount!

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Volcom Retail Stores Offer Incentive to B.Y.O.B.

Posted on December 15, 2011 by dsabori

According to the Heal the Bay website, on Dec. 15, a unique coalition of major retailers, local governments and regional environmental groups will hold the 5th annual A Day Without a Bag, which urges consumers to forego potentially environmentally harmful single-use plastic or paper grocery bags in favor of reusable totes.

When customers choose to B.Y.O.B. – that’s either Bring Your Own Bag, or Buy Your Own Bag- Volcom, a leading Action Sports company based in Southern California, will be supporting the movement by offering a 10% discount at their full-priced retail stores located across the country.

These same Volcom stores now offer reusable bags for $1, and if you don’t bring your own bag, or refuse a bag in the first place (the staff is being trained to always ask if you need one), you can choose to buy a branded, reusable tote and receive 10% off of your entire purchase for that day.

“It’s a pretty exciting program that we’re really happy to see progress,” says Tony Ordonez, Volcom’s Retail Sales Director. “Heal the Bay’s campaign is a fun way for us to get behind a concept that we’re really trying to push through all of our stores.”

On Thursday the 15th, you’ll see Volcom Retail employees wearing their B.Y.O.B. tees and encouraging you to leave without a bag, or with a reusable one, and to enjoy your 10% savings!

Learn more about Volcom’s Sustainability initiatives at www.volcom.com/newfuture and learn more about Heal the Bay at www.healthebay.com.

 

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Volcom Girls Team Helps Launch Foster Love Campaign

Posted on December 15, 2011 by dsabori

Earlier in the year, Regan Phillips, a dependency attorney in Orange County, and Colin Israel, our IT Director, came to us on behalf of CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) with the concept of developing something that could benefit the foster care community. Regan had been conceptualizing a great campaign and we were happy to be a part of it…

Here’s the story, as told by Regan:

The CASA Holiday Luncheon and Fashion Show served as the incredible back drop for the launch of this new campaign to raise awareness, opportunity and resource for children in foster care through collaboration with the fashion industry.  The event was held at the Ritz Carlton Laguna Niguel and featured designer Intermix and entertainer Kevin Montgomery.  It’s an annual event to raise money and grant holiday wishes for foster care children and it was the perfect place to introduce the campaign and to appeal to the attendees interest in fashion.

The limited edition Foster Love shirts, which were amazingly put together by Volcom desginer Jenna Graves – in record time – were a complete hit!  It seemed that anyone who stopped by to inquire about Foster Love and the shirts, purchased them.  Every dollar collected for the purchase of these shirts went directly to benefit Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) for the work they do with foster youth.  The shirts, priced at $50 apiece, have sold out!  And as a result, there have been received countless inquiries about how to get a shirt and when more will be available.

The collaboration with Volcom was the perfect way to start spreading the word about this fashion for cause campaign.  The campaign seeks to collaborate with various fashion houses in order to generate more interest and awareness for organizations like CASA.  Foster Love seeks to mainstream the issues facing and affecting foster care children and Volcom’s participation and support in this endeavor was hugely successful and resulted in a unique and fashionable shirt that sends an important social message about what we need to be nuturing in all of our children - because foster children belong to all of us.

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Keep an eye on the Foster Love campaign, looks like it could turn into something big ;)

BTW, the Foster Love logo was designed by an 18 year-old OC native, Teresa Cullen, who is currently studying graphic art design in San Francisco. Great work Teresa!

 

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Volcom Give Back Series: Supporting Protect Our Winters (POW)

Posted on December 12, 2011 by dsabori

From the POW press release:

PROTECT OUR WINTERS LAUNCHES WINTER GEAR DESIGNED BY VOLCOM

PACIFIC PALISADES, CA — December 9, 2011 – Protect Our Winters (POW) and Volcom announced today they have combined efforts to create a POW branded line of men’s and women’s performance outerwear to keep their environmentally motivated fans cozy this winter. The POW/Volcom line includes a men’s Hydro Full-Zip Hooded Sweatshirt, men’s beanie, a women’s 1/4 Zip Hooded Pullover and Women’s Technical Crew.  Proceeds of the merchandise will support Protect Our Winters through Volcom’s “Give Back Series” contributions.  The line is on sale now at all Volcom retail outlets and on POW’s website, www.protectourwinters.org.

“We’re excited and honored to have Volcom support us in this way.  Volcom is one of the most relevant brands in action sports and this partnership gives our supporters an opportunity to contribute to POW by purchasing some amazing gear”, said Chris Steinkamp, POW’s Executive Director.

“We are stoked to create merchandise that helps support such a great cause as Protect Our Winters.  We strongly believe and hope all our customers will get behind POW’s important mission to reduce climate change, said Dutch Schultz, Vice President of [Accessories, Footwear and Snow] Product, Volcom.  “Climate change in our mountains is an extremely important issue.  If we want to keep riding for decades to come, the winter sports community needs to be a collective force to help reduce climate change.”

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By way of our V.Co-logical Series and our 1% for the Planet membership, we’ve been supporting POW for a few years now. It’s nice to see the program develop and we love supporting the work they’re doing. Be sure to check them out to learn more, and get your Volcom x POW Snow gear to show your support!

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Wrapping it Up – Movember Comes to a Close

Posted on December 7, 2011 by dsabori

Well, we had a great run this year with our team up to 28 members, and almost $8,000 raised by team members here in the US. Additionally, we were able to raise $9,900 thanks to our Tilly’s Exclusive Movember tee. Everyone was in the spirit and even today, there are a few moustaches lingering…

Congrats to the Movember organization on a great campaign, and thanks for helping to raise awareness for such an important topic…men’s health. Many of us have lost loved ones to cancer and I know it strikes a personal chord each year so look for us to battle on again next year!

As for our Dare to Grow Hair Challenge? We’ll be awarding a few employees here with the honor of Best Moustache, Most Funds Raised, and Best Ambassador – Check out the trophies!

Dare to Grow Hair Challenge Trophies

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Things Are “Grow”-ing Pretty Well!

Posted on November 23, 2011 by dsabori

Well, we’re rounding the final corner in this season of the moustache and it’s filling nicely. Last week we took a team photo with a few of our VOLCOM US Movember members, just to give a little update and to let you know we’re all still rockin’!

We’re having a great time and it’s great to get behind a cause that doesn’t always get a lot of attention: Men’s health.

A few facts:

- 1 in 2 men will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime
- 1 in 6 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime
- 24% of men are less likely to go to the doctor compared to women
- and plenty more here…

Help us raise money for research here at our MoSpace Page.

And don’t forget, for a limited time you can still get your Tilly’s Exclusive Volcom Give Back Series tee supporting Movember!

Available Only At Tilly's

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Exciting News…and a Big Commitment

Posted on November 18, 2011 by dsabori

This just in:

PPR Commits to Group (that includes us!) Environmental Profit & Loss Account by 2015

Check the video to learn more about PPR HOME

PPR is committing via PPR HOME, PPR’s sustainability initiative, to implement an Environmental Profit & Loss Account (E P&L) across all Luxury and Sport & Lifestyle brands by 2015. Once completed, the Group E P&L will provide a first monetary valuation of environmental impacts analysis throughout the business operations and supply chain. The approach has never before been applied across multiple global brands and will serve as a catalyst to develop a more sustainable business model for the Group. As a pioneering environmental valuation originally developed by PPR’s Sport and Lifestyle brand, PUMA, an E P&L will drive the sustainability strategy of PPR’s Luxury and Sport & Lifestyle brands and represents our collective commitment to reinforce and strengthen our businesses while taking Nature into account ….for the long run. Full release here.

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By Derek Sabori

Every time I jump into conversation with friends and colleagues about our Sustainability program and our relatively recent acquisition by PPR, the same questions come up: “So, how’s it going? What are their plans? Will you have more or less support?”

Since the purchase, I have had the very fortunate opportunity to work with the PPR team and specifically, the PPR HOME team quite often and let me tell you, I’m so excited. PPR’s commitment to Sustainability is real, and agressive and this message from Jochen Zeitz, PPRs Chief Sustainability Officer is one of the many things in the pipes. Volcom is so glad to be a part of this monumental movement, and I’d suggest you stay tuned to watch as we continue to align our Sustainability & Corporate Social Responsibility targets with the Mother Ship.

Onward to the New Future!

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Give Jeans a Chance, DIY: And the Winner Is…

Posted on November 17, 2011 by dsabori

As our Give Jeans a Chance campaign for North America 2011 slowly comes to an end, we are proud to announce the winner of our 1st Annual DIY (Do It Yourself) Challenge!

For the last 2 years, Give Jeans a Chance has been in partnership with the National Coalition for the Homeless and with our partnering retailers across the globe. This year, however, due to multiple inquiries and pleas to get involved, we opened it up to you…our New Future community so that everyone and anyone could get involved in the campaign. We challenged you to set up collection drives in your community, tell people about your campaign, collect jeans and jackets, deliver them to a local shelter of your choice, and document your journey. The deal was, we’d reward the organizer of the winning campaign, with a $1,500 grant to a school or non-profit of their choice as well as $500 in Volcom product and an opportunity to tell their story on Fuel TV! Our favorite two entries are here, but only one could be crowned the winner.

We set out to collect 50,000 pairs of jeans and jackets for the homeless this year, and while we’re still collecting counts from our US retail partners and our global Volcom family, 915 of those collected came from these top 2 finishers!

Congratulations to Terri Benedict and the Principal, Teachers and Students at Red Hill Elementary in Tustin, CA! Together the team there at Red Hill collected 661 jeans/jackets and donated them to Project Hope School Foundation.

Enjoy their story here:

A congratulatory 2nd place finish goes out to Lisa Manfredi and everyone at Davis Magnet School in Costa Mesa, CA. Together they collected 254 jeans/jackets and donated them to The Orange County Rescue Mission. They’ll receive a $500 check to their school PTA for their efforts!

Enjoy their story here.

Congratulations to everyone that participated, and thank you for helping us make this year’s GJAC, DIY Challenge a success!

Check back soon for more updates as our final counts for the drive start coming in…

 

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Get Your Movember Gear!

Posted on November 10, 2011 by dsabori

Available Exclusively at Tilly's

Week two of Movember, and things are growing just fine around here…A couple of the boys that had missed Picture Day, have sent in their photos and our Exclusive Give Back Series Movember T-Shirt is online and now available at Tilly.com!

These tees are great, and for every shirt sold, we’re Giving Back $3 to Movember. Funds raised are directed to programs run directly by Movember and their men’s health partners, the Prostate Cancer Foundation and LIVESTRONG, the Lance Armstrong Foundation. Together, the three channels work together to ensure that Movember funds are supporting a broad range of innovative, world-class programs in line with their strategic goals in the areas of awareness and education, survivorship and research.

Stay tuned for updates on our Dare to Grow Hair Challenge, and be sure to check in on the Grind TV Action Sports Challenge as well!

Available in Black as Well!

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