"Shake Your Tail - Save a Whale"
Salesforce team, thank you all so much for joining PBC today to cleanup at Linda Mar beach despite the lack of sunshine. On the bright side (pun intended), you got to experience some classic Pacifica fog, a very important aspect of our local ecosystem. As a team, you collected 34 pounds of trash and 405 cigarette butts! This is a […]
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by Greg Finkelstein – PBC Naturalist Some of my earliest memories are of duct taping my shoes to the ends of my jeans. During my childhood, my father, Jay Finkelstein, was a leader of the Bayfront Cleanup, which is now a part of Coastal Cleanup Day. On that day, he would borrow an airboat, and we and a small team […]
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It was another beautiful day at Sharp park beach for a cleanup. A total of 84 volunteers joined us, including members from the Cub Scouts, NCL and many students! A special thank you to Charmaine, Jun, Sunshine from more than fishing for rallying your group to come out. A total of 68 pounds trash, 16 pounds of recycling and 640 cigarette […]
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It was a chilly but sunny day at Montara Beach with old friends and new! We had 23 volunteers join the site captains Iona and Janice, our naturalist Danila, and Mira. There was a lot of discussion about new recruits for the mission blue crew! Our amazing earth heros collected 17 lbs trash (10 masks), 7 lbs recycling and 157 cigarette […]
Read moreSupport smoking waste pollution prevention! AB 1690 is facing significant opposition and to keep all the currently defined products (cigarette/cigar filters and tobacco and cannabis single-use vaping devices) in the bill, we need your help ASAP! Did you know? … Filtered cigarettes cause pollution in our communities, and they are unnecessary because they don’t protect smokers’ health. Since 1964, the U.S. Surgeon […]
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It was a smaller team at Rockaway Beach this month, about 40 Volunteers on a very cold and windy day. We are starting to get quite a few regular high school students who travel from East and South Bay, and bring their own supplies! In total this group collected 48lbs of trash and approximately 1215 cigarette butts! Amazing work team. A news camera […]
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It was unexpectedly warm and sunny day on February 19th at Esplanade beach! We had 36 volunteers come out, from multiple groups of high schoolers, to those just out walking their dogs at the beach. Our awesome volunteers were able to pick up 2,561 cigarette butts that are soon to be recycled! We were also able to collect a whopping […]
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Get your popcorn and join us for an evening of fun, big waves and special guests.
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It was a very sunny day at Montara beach cleanup with a lot of new and returning friends! Our delightful site captains Iona and Janice and naturalist Julie managed a crew of 23 volunteers. This team managed to collect 33 lbs of trash, 16 lbs of recycling, 194 cigarette butts , 23 masks and a handful of gloves. There were plenty of interesting […]
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We had an incredible turnout for our first 2022 cleanup at Surfer’s/Harbor Beach yesterday. Such a beautiful day! There was quite a bit of trash out there due in part to the tsunami a few weeks ago but we picked it up! We had 79 enthusiastic volunteers join us and they picked up 102 pounds of trash! This included 4 huge […]
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