Clean It Out, for Steelhead Trout
In the Bay Area, we are all restricted to shelter in place but we are still allowed to go outside for exercise, grocery shopping or run important errands. We are very excited to report that our volunteers are following our recommendations and picking up trash, while they can, to keep giving our Ocean the love that it deserves. We encourage […]
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A stranger, Lloyd From Oakland, knowing nothing about PBC, just hanging out on South Rockaway Beach, offered to help me clean up a lot of garbage that washed in from the storm. It took a few trips with his laundry basket to haul it all to the trash can at the top. I gave him my “Earth Hero 2019” button. He […]
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For the first time ever we partnered with the Half Moon Bay Kayak Co to give our volunteers the opportunity to pick up the trash floating on the water of the harbor or stuck between the rocks. It was a great success! Our 7 kayaks went above and beyond to paddle and remove 31 lbs of trash including fishing lines, […]
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Russ Hartman embodies the spirit that Cedric brought every day – he quietly and consistently works hard on his own to make Pacifica a more beautiful place which truly qualifies him as our Unsung Hero. For years, Russ single-handedly eradicated the large patches of invasive pampas grass along Highway One and has since patrolled the Coastal Trail from Linda Mar […]
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We Couldn’t Be More Proud of our Volunteers Jeff and Paxton! Pacifica Magazine features Jeff and Paxton (graduate of Oceana High School and honored with PBC’s first Earth Hero scholarship program) Christner and Mussel Rockstars in their October 2018 edition. Probably one of the most amazing story about plastic and our OCEAN Problem! –A must READ! Story available in the […]
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Here is an incredible story from Eleanor Jonas, Ocean Shore School, 8th Grade On May 25th, we Ocean Shore School seventh and eighth graders ventured out for the fifth year in a row to see how many cigarette butts we could find and keep from polluting the ocean. In a competition to save the fish, the eighth graders raced the seventh […]
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This year, we donated a $500 scholarship to Reed Blount who has been helping us for years. We are so happy to be helping the younger generation, it is a great for us to give back! Here are a few word from Deirdre Martin who had the incredible pleasure to meet and be with Reed over the years. ” I […]
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Two recent graduates from Oceana and Terra Nova high schools, received the first ever PBC Earth Hero Scholarship. The scholarship is in the amount of $500 and was presented at our last event “A Plastic Ocean” movie night. Audrey Meiman, who has been cleaning up our beaches and streets since she was a young kid and Paxton Christner, who has […]
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We would like to thank all the Earth Heroes who joined us on April 22nd to cleanup the coast from Fort Funston to San Gregorio and we hope you all had fun at the EcoFest! We are currently gathering the litter data from the different site captains and group leaders. We will soon get back to you with the numbers […]
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Making a Difference by Cleaning Up By Celine Gerakin, Pillar Point and Coastal Cleanup Day Site Captain I started cleaning up beaches around Half Moon Bay in late 2013 after I moved to the area with my husband. This quickly became an addiction, and I knew I wanted to do more, be more involved with the coastal environment, and make a bigger […]
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