"Shake Your Tail - Save a Whale"
Discover 10 fun facts about the Sea Stars! 1. They have no brain and no blood. Starfish use filtered sea water to pump nutrients through their nervous system. 2. They can live up to 35 years. 3. Starfish is not their right name, they should always be called Sea Star! They’re actually related to sand dollars and sea urchins. They […]
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Pacific Beach Coalition 2017 Successes Some Numbers: 2013/14* 2015 2016 2017 Volunteers 11,894 11,603 12,283 12,327 Trash in LBS 18,244 16,475 15,032 19,509 Recycle in LBS 4,814 2,370 3,509 4,943 Green Waste in LBS 11,608 23,789 38,878 49,122 Cig. Butts Didn’t Count 95,594 172,443 157,672 Beach Plastic in LBS 101 * April 2013 through Nov 2014 Our Actions: […]
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A Google team came out for a Give Back outing on November 14th despite the weather not being in our favor. The pouring rain went on and on at Linda Mar Pacifica, but the volunteers decided to go on with the beach cleanup anyway. All the members got a lot of trash that had washed out of the San Pedro […]
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Pacifica Land Trust Presents, Escape to the Headlands – Pedro Point Headlands Thanksgiving Sunday, November 26th Please Mark your Calendars. Plan your Thanksgiving Weekend Escape (hike). Say yes to nature, escape with the family! The Pacifica Land Trust would like to invite the public to Escape to the Headlands, the Pedro Point Headlands that is, Meet at Castle Kitchen (520 San Pedro Ave, Pacifica) Join us anytime […]
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The Pacific Beach Coalition only exists because of you! Every year, the Pacific Beach Coalition depends on your generosity to make a difference that has a positive impact on our community, neighborhoods, beaches, Pacific ocean and wildlife. We cleanup parking lots and beaches every weekend, rain or shine, we teach students of all ages about marine debris, and we educate […]
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Beach Cleanup on the 2017 Halloween Weekend Over our last October beach cleanup, we had an incredible turnaround! 63 incredible volunteers joined us and some came in numbers. We had Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), Young Men’s Service League (YMSL), Central Middle School from San Carlos and students of Ocean and Hillsdale high schools. Together, we made a difference that […]
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Coastal Cleanup Day 2017 Trash Results 1720 Volunteers Picked Up 3906.5 Pounds of Trash Thank you all so very much for coming to this year Coastal Cleanup Day annual event. It was a lot of work organizing and coordinating dozens of volunteers across 28 locations, so thank you again for your enthusiasm and positive energy! Here are some […]
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Another successful habitat restoration last month, removing a lot of weeds under an expected foggy sky. A big thanks and shout-out to volunteers from Banana Republic Flagship store in Union Square SF and to the surfer community volunteers. Thanks all and we hope to see you again next time!
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Posting a few photos taken by Nobuko Inouye. Nobuko, walks the Linda Mar to Rockaway beach path almost every day, and takes photos, which she posts to her blog (in Japanese). She takes some great photos: whales, birds, fishermen, bunnies, gophers, THAT DRAT animal eating my newly planted native plants, WEASEL!!!, etc., anything interesting going on locally, and in her […]
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188 Pounds of Trash from August 2017 Pillar Point Beach Cleanup What a great day at Pillar Point Beach Cleanup! Site captains Ryan and Valerie help take care of the 60 volunteers who came for our August beach cleanup and together we removed 188 pounds of trash from our Ocean, including 38 pounds of recycle. We counted 547 cigarette butts […]
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