"Shake Your Tail - Save a Whale"
Thank you all so very much for joining us last month at our annual Earth Day of Action & EcoFest. Here are the final numbers with all 80 sites reporting: 7,286 Volunteers 4,025 lbs of Trash 1,031 lbs of Recycling material 7,609 lbs of weeds (non native & invasive species) 15,923 Cigarette butts Assemblies at 15 schools 5785 students learned about […]
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TerraCycle is an innovative environmental company, located near Boston, that recycles many different products normally destined for the waste stream into products that can be reused. Brigades of volunteers collect them and ship them to their company free of charge. Cigarette butts, ash, and silver paper inserts, collected by cigarette butt brigades are recycled, into guitar picks, jewelry, and ash trays. Since […]
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Words from our dear Patty: “Earth Day Habitat Restoration at Rockaway with Deacon Noel & the Confirmation Teens from Good Shepherd. Thank you for all your hard work!”
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Words from Dig it Dave, our Roberts Road Site Captain: “This Earth Day I got to wear many hats. I got Team Dig It together to clean up Roberts Road. Sharon Van Huystee Martinez my other half did a great job organizing the team, sorting, and calculating. It was nice to see that we didn’t have much trash to pick […]
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Report from our Mussel Rock volunteer Jeff Christner: “Did a quick post Earth Day hike around Mussel Rock at low tide today and the beach was mostly accessible, albeit with some dangerous climbing over some of the sea wall rocks. Found a sea lion, who I thought was dead at first, but I think he was just resting, he soon […]
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I think the Earth can be proud of us! At Pillar Point we had an amazing group of very motivated volunteers. Almost everyone showed up well before 9 AM and was ready for some action! The volunteers kept on coming with buckets and hands full of tires, pieces of wood or metal scraps. But thanks to Gina (from Apple), Nicole David, […]
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Earth Day 2016- PBC’s 12th! As usual, Linda Mar’s Earth Heroes numbered over 100- this year, 159 signed in to help our otters and friends live a clean, healthy life in their ocean! So many veterans, so many first-timers, and all good-spirited, energetic souls dedicating their Saturday to helping clean the beach and ocean. Many, many individuals, Daisy Troop 61840, […]
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The WHALE TAIL® License Plate sponsored by the California Coastal Commission gives drivers a way to help protect and restore the priceless resources of California’s coast and ocean. The Coastal Commission uses these funds to support many worthy coastal education efforts like the ones leaded by Pacific Beach Coalition, but also the annual Coastal Cleanup Day which each fall turns […]
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Link to Unit and activities: http://www.kidsplanet.org/tt/seaotter/reading.html
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Focus Concept: Otters Living in Glacier Bay Sub-concepts: Recolonization of Glacier Bay, history of survival, prey and eating habits, insulating attributes of fur, special adaptations to life in a marine environment, effect on marine environments, keystone species Generalization: Otters are a keystone species whose special adaptations, from physiology to eating habits, directly and indirectly effect the marine environments in which […]
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