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Alexander Haro

Alexander Haro

Senior Editor

Title: Senior Editor

Email: Alex@theinertia.com

Location: Lake Cowichan, BC, Canada

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Expertise

Topics of Expertise: Travel, Environment, Surf

Years in This Expertise: 10

Education & Certifications

Education: Degree in Communications

Years of Writing: 20, for publications like SURFER magazine, Surfing magazine, Air Canada enRoute, Color magazine, SBC Surf, and Drift Surfing.

Experience

Alexander Haro has been writing about surfing, the environment, and the outdoors with The Inertia for 12 years. Prior to that, he worked at SURFER magazine after spending nearly 10 years doing various labor jobs in Northern British Columbia.

Based in Canada, Alexander still dreams of writing a novel. In the meantime, he can be found somewhere outside with his dogs, riding his motorcycle, surfing, camping, hiking, or reading when he should be doing something else that’s more important.

Career Highlights

Team trips to Hawaii.

Getting to know Portugal while writing about his experiences.

Having the opportunity to travel to interesting places and surf amazing waves with a handful of surfers who he used to only see in magazines.

Mick Fanning willing got attacked by a dog in South Africa. He's been on safari with a group called WildArk, a conservation organization.

Watch Mick Fanning Get Attacked by an Anti-Poaching Dog in South Africa

2 min read Jul 5, 2017

Care for a sip?

The EPA Wants to Revoke the Clean Water Rule and Make It Way Easier for Big Agriculture to Pollute

3 min read Jun 30, 2017

What does this have to do with surfing, you ask? Nothing! Absolutely nothing!

Dan Bilzerian Got His Jet Ski Stuck in Malibu, and He Can’t Get It Out

2 min read Jun 26, 2017

NOAA is predicting the third largest Gulf of Mexico summer ‘dead zone’ ever for 2017. (NOAA)

Massive Dead Zone in Gulf of Mexico Expected to Increase by 57 Percent

5 min read Jun 25, 2017

Rice University researchers (from left) Naomi Halas, Qilin Li, Peter Nordlander, Seth Pederson, Alessandro Alabastri and Pratiksha Dongare with a scaled up test bed of the NEWT Center’s direct solar desalination system. (Photo by Jeff Fitlow/Rice University)

This Team of Researchers Just Figured Out How to Desalinate Water with Solar Power

4 min read Jun 23, 2017

Sam Yoon has had enough of Jet Skis in the lineup.

Gold Coast Surfer Speaks Out Against Rampant Use of Jet Skis in Lineups

3 min read Jun 23, 2017

Kepa broke his neck at Mundaka on January 2nd. He was a whisper away from death. And in perfectly Kepa fashion, he learned something beautiful from the experience.

Kepa Acero Reflects on Breaking His Neck at Mundaka

3 min read Jun 20, 2017

Shaun Edward Davidson went to Bali instead of facing drug-related charges in Australia. Now, he's escaped from a Balinese prison by tunneling out.

Australian Man Tunnels Out of Bali’s Kerobokan Prison with Only 3 Months Left of Sentence

3 min read Jun 20, 2017

Mick Rodgers gave up a home without wheels for a Ford Econoline. Now he's living a life on the move.

Is #Vanlife Really All It’s Cracked Up to Be?

3 min read Jun 17, 2017

Don't add to this!

3 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Surf on International Surfing Day

2 min read Jun 17, 2017

Continue reading the main story “Especially on flat water, propulsion using a paddle is basically canoeing,” said Simon Toulson, the secretary general of the canoeing federation. “Standing up or sitting down is irrelevant.” Photos: ICF/ISA

Courts to Decide if Stand-Up Paddling Is Canoeing or Surfing

2 min read Jun 17, 2017

Go Michael go!

Michael Phelps Is Going to Race a Great White Shark for Shark Week

2 min read Jun 16, 2017

This New Drug Gives You a Real Tan without the Sun

3 min read Jun 16, 2017

You COULD eat money, but it tastes like shit.

A Federal Judge Just Ruled that Dakota Access Pipeline Broke the Law

3 min read Jun 16, 2017

Gerald Aikau and his son Reef.

Two Aikau Family Members are Dead in a Possible Murder-Suicide

2 min read Jun 14, 2017

Can Leonardo DiCaprio save the vaquita porpoise?

Leonardo DiCaprio Teams Up with Mexican Government to Save the Vaquita Porpoise

3 min read Jun 12, 2017

Here's a video of Adam West surfing as Batman, even though he had almost nothing to do with surfing, the environment, politics, or the outdoors.

In Honor of Adam West, Here’s Batman Surfing

2 min read Jun 10, 2017

June 8th at Skeleton Bay was INCREDIBLE

June 8th at Skeleton Bay was INCREDIBLE

2 min read Jun 9, 2017

The UK Just Set a New Energy Record with Wind and Solar

3 min read Jun 9, 2017