"Shake Your Tail - Save a Whale"
Weather was beautiful for our cleanup on Dec 8th! We had 31 volunteers who cleared away 62 pounds of trash, 18 pounds of recycles, 121 cigarette filters, 7 straws, and 20 caps/lids. We didn’t have any of our usual large items…but the crew found sunglasses, a scarf, a rug, a diving weight belt, a lighter and 5 diapers (yuk!) Special […]
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Our Habitat Restoration’s Site Captain Michael led 27 volunteers last month to remove invasive weeds in Linda Mar. What a great turn out! Here is Michael’s report from the field: “We had 27 volunteers for Habitat Restoration at Linda Mar Beach this weekend. A dozen people from SF Federal Credit Union, five students from Woodside High, and a few others. […]
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Video Highlights Learning through SMCOE’s Outdoor Education Program The San Mateo County Office of Education’s (SMCOE) Outdoor Education program is the focus of a new video by Every Second Breath Project. The stunning video captures the program’s creative efforts to teach students about the importance of tidepools. The video features Mark Nolan, SMCOE’s Director of Outdoor Environmental Education, who […]
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Micheal and his Habitat Restoration’s team have been working hard for years to get to this this stage. Months after months, volunteers have been removing over 228,329 lbs of green waste since 2007, needless to say that this has been a work of love and hard labor. And last September, for Coastal Cleanup Day, Michael and the Harker School were […]
Read moreTwenty-three volunteers, mostly first timers and a few trusty Mussel Rockstars, participated in the making of a video on environmental change by Emily Holman from University of Oregon. It was sunny and mild without too much wind. Emily took video footage of the site and asked questions. I told her how it just took a few individuals to keep the […]
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Claudia, a volunteer and member of the Steering Committee sent us an email from Hawaii after she went on the beach to watch the sunrise. During her walk, she picked up some trash, and here is her report: “I ventured out after a huge storm passed through last night to see the sun rise and I found this… I’ve […]
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If you are interested in joining our team of incredible site captains and love gardening, please send us an email at info @ pacificabeachcoalition.org. Thank you! About the Restoration: The Rockaway Switchbacks and beach bluffs habitat restoration project started three years ago with the question “what if”. The Rockaway Switchbacks area has been overrun by non-native invasive cape ivy, mustard, […]
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We had great cleanup on October 27th with 22 volunteers who cleared away 17 pounds of trash, 9 pounds of recycles, and 205 cigarette filters, 9 straws, and 11 caps/lids. The Olympia pull tab beer can was the OLD find of the day. 3 Flip Flops, a hat and a shoe were the wearable items. And a pretty cool fishing […]
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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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We Won the 2018 Fog Fest BEST FLOAT Prize! Did you see us proudly walking at the Parade with our incredible volunteers and fantastic float? We hope you did and we also hope that you had as much fun as we did this year again at Fog Fest. If you missed the fun, here are some pictures showing how awesome […]
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