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We here at Buy Rash Guards love our beautiful planet and hope our customers share in this love. We enjoy her outdoors - her oceans, her lakes and streams and her mountains.

We know sometimes it’s hard to do the right thing and live a carbon neutral life but there are plenty of small and easy steps you can take that can actually make a big difference.

We’ve decided to make a point of posting some of these simple steps when we find ones that we think are doable.

Today we’re going to talk about bottled water…

We all know that plastic water bottles are a HUGE waste problem as there’s no such thing as ‘disposable plastic’ - it lasts forever! About 60 MILLION water bottles are tossed away EVERY DAY!

Couple that with the fact that scientists are discovering chemicals contained in the plastic leaching into the water contained in them.

But here’s another point you may not have thought about: you’re throwing away dollars too…

Tap water is actually MORE STRICTLY REGULATED THAN BOTTLED WATER. This means filling your own BPA free water bottles and drinking tap water at restaurants is cheaper and can actually be safer than bottled water!

If everyone in the U.S. stopped wasting money on bottled water and drank tap water instead we’d save about $8 BILLION per year!

How easy is that?!?

This week’s sale is on our solid navy blue long sleeve men’s rash guard shirt.

For those of you who think black is too plain but don’t want to step out in a Hawaiian or floral rash guard, this solid navy blue men’s swim shirt is just for you!

Like all of our rash guards you’ll get SPF 150+ protection with the added protection for your forearms that the long sleeves provide.

From now through this Friday you can get an additional 5% off during this sale by using coupon code mens-rashguard when you checkout - easy!

Just visit us at Buy-Rash-Guards.com

We’re all to familiar with skin cancer here at Buy Rash Guards - it’s one reason we opened our store…

With one of the most important presidential elections coming up it’s vital that we know about the health of the candidates, one of whom will be leading us through some very tough times.

With McCain’s history of melanoma we find it odd that calls for the release of his medical records are being met with resistance by his campaign. This decision is also befuddling members of the medical community, who ask a very basic question: what more important information is needed to elect a president other than his fitness for office?

Barack Obama has given the public far less information on his health than McCain - a one-page report detailing the last 21 years of care he has received.

There is something sadly ironic with the fact that physicians and airline pilots are required to release medical records, but not the would-be president of the United States.

This week we’re putting one of our most popular kid’s rash guard shirts on sale - Navy Blue Hibiscus.

This children’s rashguard has a solid navy blue body with white and navy blue floral side panels. This rash guard pattern is popular with both boys and girls so you can’t go wrong.

Like all of our rash guards your child will be protected with SPF 150+ protection while they’re in the water, without the use of messy and expensive sunscreens.

Rash guards are a great way to protect your skin without harmful chemical sunscreens. By wearing a rash guard swim shirt you’ll use less sunscreens and their harmful chemicals, (dangerous to us as well as our environment), AND less of the plastic bottles they come in!

To get an additional discount off our already low prices simply use coupon code kids-rashguard when you checkout for this week’s sale on this adorable boy and girls rashguard swim shirt.

For decades, uncollected sewage has posed an environmental and public health threat to residents along the Tijuana-San Diego border. According to officials of Tijuana¹s water authority, CESPT, the Monte de los Olivos sewage treatment plant, along with two smaller satellite plants set to go online in 2009, will give the city the treatment capacity necessary to stop discharging untreated sewage into ocean. Approximately 5 million gallons of untreated sewage is currently discharged every day into the surf just 5 miles south of the border at San Antonio de los Buenos. According to Scripps Institute of Oceanography researcher Eric Terrill, the discharge plume at San Antonio affects water quality off beaches in both northern Baja and San Diego. According to his research, reaches south San Diego County beaches up to 10% of the year.

The Monte de los Olivos plant, located just north of the Rodriguez Dam, will treat approximately 12 million gallons of sewage per day. In addition to improving beach water quality, the plant¹s treated water will flow through “purple piping”, which refers to the infrastructure used in water reclamation, to irrigate parks and ball fields. According to Baja California Governor Osuna Millan, who attended the ceremony, the new plant would ³paint Tijuana green with a purple project.²

WiLDCOAST, an Imperial Beach nonprofit, working to improve beach water quality, applauded the City of Tijuana and the state of Baja California for their continued commitment to clean water through investments in border sewage infrastructure.

“This project shows that Tijuana is serious about addressing both water quality and quantity issues and is not waiting on the U.S. or others to take the lead,” said Serge Dedina, Executive DIrector of WiLDCOAST.

Checking the blogs it sounds like Monday’s hearing was a success!

According to the Surfrider Foundation about 3000 people showed up and made an impression on the decision makers.

The Secretary of Commerce will make his decision between Oct 24, 2008 and January 7 2009. Surfrider is happy because that gives everyone more time to contact the the Feds and demand they uphold the Coastal Commission’s decision to protect San Onofre State Beach. You have until Oct 2 to submit comments.

You can read more on their blog and they also have a link there where you can easily send a letter so click here!!

This week we’re putting one of our most popular womens rash guard shirts on sale: the pink floral long sleeve.

This long sleeve women’s rash guard is adorable with it’s pink body and pink floral side panels.

From now until this Friday just use coupon code womens-rashguard to get an additional 5% off our already low price.

Like all of our rash guard shirts you’ll get SPF 150+ protection and look cute doing it!

This just in from the Surfrider Foundation:

Get ready! It’s time to gather and save Trestles. A public hearing for the appeal of the 241 Toll Road will be held next Monday, Sept 22, and we need you there! Remember that in February the CA Coastal Commission turned down the application to build a massive toll road through San Onofre State Beach, threatening the integrity of this popular and wondrous natural resource. The TCA has appealed that decision to the US Commerce Dept. and they will be here Monday to hear from you.

We need you to bring your friends and family! As we saw at the Coastal Commission hearing, when over 3,000 people show up and demand protection of San Onofre and Trestles, decision makers listen! We cannot let the Bush administration overturn a decision that has already been made in California.

Hopefully you have had a chance to read the hearing procedures: click here Hand-held signs need be no bigger than 13 x 22 inches. Surfrider will be setting up sign-making stations to ensure everyone has “the right sized signs”; and we’ll also be passing out signs already made.

Since the hearing will go ‘all day’, we are creating interactive stations and planning fun activities outside the hearing (such as, face painting for the kids, frisbee, hacky sack, and of course letter writing stations)! If you can’t come for the entire day, please stop by for a bit–just coming for an hour or two CAN make a difference–at this point, public pressure is key to stopping this toll road.

At the hearing, there will be “drop boxes” for letters and we need to fill them up! If you have friends who cannot come, please let them know you can hand-deliver a letter for them. If you had previously requested to speak at the hearing, as required, we will have a schedule of speaker times by the end of the week.

Surfrider, and our partners, will be providing supporters with tee shirts and other goodies (first come, first served). We understand many of you will be at the hearing all day and we want to help keep you nourished and fray some of the costs associated with coming to the hearing. We will have a limited amount of food coupons that we can give to those who need it. Since we are a nonprofit, it’s hard to feed everyone, but we do want to make sure that our supporters are taken care of and have sustained energy to be at the hearing all day. Upon arriving, please check in at the welcome booth to receive your tee shirts and food coupons.

While we do NOT expect a final decision on Monday, a solid showing of public support for Trestles is critical; as we saw with the Coastal Commission!

If you absolutely cannot make it to the hearing, be sure to provide the Commerce Dept. by sending a letter fee and easily online, and stay up to date at www.savetrestles.org

Congrats to Kelly Slater for winning the Boost Mobile Pro event held at Trestles, CA last week!

He beat out Taj Burrows, of Australia, by less than .5 points to pick up the $30,000 check and trophy in some ripable 2-4′ surf at Trestles Beach.

Nice rash guard there Kelly. 

This week’s special is on one of our most popular mens rash guard shirts: black hibiscus.

From now through Friday of this week you can get this men’s rashguard on sale by using coupon code mens-rashguard when you checkout.

Like all of our rash guards, this mens short sleeve rash guard shirt will cover you with SPF 150+ protection while you’re in the water without using harmful, messy and expensive sunscreens!

File this in the “You Gotta Be Kidding Me” column…

A few days ago a surfer down in Australia was towed out to sea when a passing shark got itself tangled in his leash!!

Apparently the guy wasn’t hurt but definitely freaked out. The surfer clung to his board until the shark suddenly freed itself and disappeared. The leash was not damaged and remained attached to the board and his ankle.

That’s one lucky surfer!

You can read all about it here…

We all know it can be expensive as well as toxic to try to take care of our skin and hair, (women as well as men), but our friends over at Happy Monkey Planet have just published a list of eco-friendly beauty treatments that you can make at home!

Click here to find recipes for things like teeth whitening, hair conditioning and some terrific facial masks all using safe, non-toxic ingredients from your kitchen that you can feel good about putting on your body and then washing down the drain.

Some of us here at Buy Rash Guards are going to try a couple of them and report back - we’d love to hear from any of you who give one or two of these recipes a try as well.

We’re all about protecting our skin and our environment.

This week’s special is on our entire line of StayDry Shirts, (also known as KoreDry Shirts).

These UV protective shirts are awesome and will keep your skin protected from the harmful UV rays of the sun with SPF 150 coverage while you’re in or around the water!

One of our customers just wrote in their blog about wearing these StayDry shirts last week while on a fly fishing trip. Not only were they covered with SPF 150 protection (without using messy sunscreen and having to remember to re-apply it while out on the fish), but they were able to stick their arms in the water to retrieve the fish without their shirt getting wet - a big plus!

Form now until this Friday, September 12th, just use coupon code stay-dry-shirt when you checkout to get an additional 5% discount on these terrific StayDry shirts. They a great addition to your tackle box!