Thank you TEAM GOOGLE! You all removed 54 pounds of trash, 28 pounds of recycles and 1577 toxic cigarette butts from Mussel Rock! Then you rocked it at Rockaway removing approx 1000 pounds of wild ox tongue, fennel, radish, mustard and even Cal Trans Buckwheat! You finished our work up the switchbacks covering the last 3 switches! Truly amazing and […]
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May 21, 2016 was supposed to be one of those rare, unseasonal cold, windy and even rainy days, enough to discourage the toughest Earth Hero. However, as the sun came out, 35 fantastic volunteers showed up to clean Linda Mar Beach. Accretive Solutions, led by Gabby Galindo, brought over 20 volunteers from as far as Manteca; Mercy High School returned […]
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Thank you to Earth Heroes Céline Gerakin Pillar Point site captain, San Mateo County Park Ranger Rob Cala and others who cut and removed this stranded boat. For a week this sailing vessel has been in the mind of the locals and the community helped every single day to secure and dissemble the boat before it could break up and […]
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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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From Kristine’s blog, our new site captain at Montara State Beach. Completing over 52 days of beach cleanups this year, I can now say the hardest aspect of doing them, is being on the front lines of environmental pollution on a daily basis. It is not actually getting to the beach and picking up the trash, but merely witnessing the disregard […]
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Bay Area High School Team Serves and Learns By: Jackson Confer – following a volunteer workday for their team led by the Pacific Beach Coalition at Linda Mar State Beach The beaches of Northern California are the beaches that I’ve grown up on, and I never realized exactly how polluted they were until I took part in a recent beach cleanup though the […]
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PBC sends the butts to the cans By Jean Bartlett Features Correspondent Posted: 07/21/2015 05:05:02 PM PDT submitted photo Cigarette container made by Eco-Pop Designs at Sharp Park. Eco-Pop Designs is owned and run by Pacifican Mitch Reid. In business for over 25 years, Reid’s company combines “ecology, pop art and invention to make public recycling collection containers, and […]
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Join SFBBO for a free movie, Sunday, Nov. 8, 2015 1:00-4:00 p.m. Milpitas Library, Milpitas Free, RSVP to outreach@sfbbo.org David was the guest speaker at SFBBO’s 2015 Annual Membership Meeting and will answer questions and share about his research after the film. The Ross Sea, Antarctica is the most pristine stretch of ocean on Earth. A vast, frozen landscape that […]
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Beach cleanups cancelled due to COVID-19 regulations BUT you can still volunteer for our Street to Beach Cleanups program. Check it out! About Tunitas Creek Beach: Tunitas Creek Beach is a wide and long beach next to Highway 1 a couple miles South of downtown Half Moon Bay. There are two ways to get to the beach: the first one […]
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After what seems like months of cold overcast weather, the sun shined today and an awesome Genentech Give Back team soaked it up while cleaning the beach and parking lots from the Pedro Point Shopping center to the Rockaway bluff. We did it! And oh how about Pedro Point! Finding lots of Velella Velella, a chunk of […]
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