"We All Need A Little Kelp"
14 amazing volunteers showed the ocean some love today, on World Oceans Day at Montara Beach! It was a sunny day, with wildflowers were blooming, and lots of people on the beach. Once again, volunteers reported a very clean beach and bluff. But they still managed to pick up 10 pounds of recycling and 8 pounds of trash – including […]
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Some of you decided to kick off their long Memorial Day weekend by coming to the beach and giving some love to our coast and Ocean. 108 lbs of trash is a lot, but it is was actually not too bad compared to some past cleanups! Our 47 volunteers walked around Pillar Point and Surfer’s Beach, and this is what […]
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What a great Memorial Day cleanup at Mussel Rock this weekend! You showed up in numbers and we even had a bit of sun. Our 40 volunteers removed trash and cigarette butts from the parking lot, trail and beach. Well done! We also had the special visit of Edward Schrank. Edward, a head and neck cancer survivor from chemical exposure […]
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Thank you ThermoFisher team! What a great job done by ThermoFisher this week. 1173 cigarette filters, 38 pounds of trash/recycles removed, 1250 pounds of thistles pulled to make way for native vegetation from Rockaway District and removing thistle and the Headland. Thank you Team ThermoFisher! Thank you Salesforce team! Slowly but surely the Italian Thistle on the Rockaway Headlands is […]
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Our first cleanup in Monterey last Sunday was a success. We started the morning at 9AM with the Bamboo Reef staff who debriefed the scuba divers about the location and how to enter, where to drop and what to expect. After the 2 tank dives, our scuba divers found 4 LBS of trash, and mostly crayons that might come from […]
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Earth Day of Action & EcoFest 2019 were a blast! Here are the results of our actions. We can’t thank you all enough for your participation and for making our Earth Day incredible. For the first time this year, we had a Poo Patrol walking the streets of Pacifica to pick up plastic dog poo bags left behind. We also […]
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We had 12 amazing volunteers from Oracle, Hillsdale High School, and Half Moon Bay come out this beautiful May 11th ! Wildflowers were blooming, the sun managed to come out, and we were treated to a couple of whales passing by. The good news – the beach was pretty clean thanks to our Earth Day cleanup a two weeks ago, […]
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A record 95 volunteers from Half Moon Bay, Montara, Moss Beach, Freemont, San Carlos, Danville, Atherton, and Modesto came out for a huge Earth Day Cleanup at Montara State Beach! Together, they picked up 111 lbs of trash, 24 lbs of recycle, 65 bottle caps, 13 straws and 305 cigarette butts from the beach, parking lots and bluff. We also […]
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57 Volunteers, 152 Lbs of Trash & 106 Cigarette Butts Last Saturday we cleaned up Pillar Point and Surfers Beach. We were all very grateful for the sunny weather and for spotting some whales near the jetty. We had students representing Half Moon Bay, Hilldsale and Aragon High Schools who came in numbers, as well as locals and San Mateo […]
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Our friend and board member Claudia has been going back and forth from the coastline to the mountains over the past couple years. And here a note from her journey. Thank you Claudia for bringing the PBC spirit everywhere you go! Hello fellow Earth Heroes, I’m always curious about other communities litter issues…always hopeful to not find any, but alas, […]
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