"Shake Your Tail - Save a Whale"
Trash Results for Coastal Cleanup Day 2018 All 1478 of You Picked Up 3624 Pounds of Trash We are so proud of you for coming out on Coastal Cleanup Day to make a positive impact on our neighborhood. This year, some habitat restoration was done at 5 different locations and they removed 1076 lbs of green waste. Take that invasive weeds! […]
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81% of the population of sea stars died after being struck by wasting disease. Now they are fighting back by changing their genes. Just five years after a wasting disease swept California starfish populations, killing many of the creatures, scientists have discovered a microevolution in one species of sea star that helped it survive. The microevolution shows how the sea […]
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Here is the report from Dig It Dave who cleans up Roberts Road with his team of volunteers: “Thank you Team Dig It for spending your Saturday morning helping. It was a RECORD LOW trash pick up on Roberts Road for Coastal Clean Up Day. Butt count and dog poop were high but overall trash, cans and bottles were down. […]
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Coastal Cleanup Day was a huge success! With over 100 volunteers we collected… 230 pounds garbage 66 pounds of recycling 4230 cigarette butts! A car bumper A bag full of leg braces and a tire over 2.5 miles of beach!! Thank you to everyone who helped out. We appreciate all the work that got done. Special thanks to Laurel […]
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A big thank you to the 42 people that came out today…including a very special callout to Cathy who brought her friends to clean up the beach for her birthday! Together we collected: 144 pounds garbage 20 pounds of recycling 994 cigarette butts!!! (we think that might be a record!) 9 straws 38 bottle caps 3 tennis balls a grill […]
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Lynn reports from her experience with the Science Exchange Give Back team: “So proud of the Science Exchange team yesterday who cleaned Linda Mar beach and extended the wood chip mulch up the Linda Mar Coastal Trail from the trees edge to beyond the social trail. While they all worked hard, they had a way of laughing and smiling […]
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Celebrate the Coast, Celebrate Fog Fest, And Come Support PBC at the Parade! September 29th & 30th The Pacific Coast Fog Fest is a celebration of sun, sand and surf that defines life on the coast and celebrates our marvelous coastal climate. Every year Pacific Beach Coalition participate and support Fog Fest by joining the Parade and by having a […]
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Join our Annual Community and Educational Event SEA STARS & ME Friday, August 24th at 6:30PM Pacifica Community Center Please RSVP as we have limited seating and these events have been very attended in the past. Our 2 knowledgeable speakers Rob Cala and Nicole Larson, will talk about the sea stars and how you can help them and the Ocean […]
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A big thank you to the 24 people that came out today! The beach was extremely polluted due to all of the recent nice weather drawing in tourists, and even with just the 24 of us we collected… 116 pounds garbage 34 pounds of recycling !!!!!!!!904 cigarette butts!!!!!!!!! wow!!! 26 straws 28 bottle caps 1 hubcap 4 outfits worth of clothing […]
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Here is an incredible story from Eleanor Jonas, Ocean Shore School, 8th Grade On May 25th, we Ocean Shore School seventh and eighth graders ventured out for the fifth year in a row to see how many cigarette butts we could find and keep from polluting the ocean. In a competition to save the fish, the eighth graders raced the seventh […]
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