"Shake Your Tail - Save a Whale"
Words from our Habitat Restoration Site Captain: “These pictures were taken at the July-23-2017 Linda Mar Beach Habitat Restoration activity. These guys kicked butt! Go Bears! The 2 volunteers are both graduated or soon to graduate students from UC Berekeley. Go Bears!” Thank you so much Freidel and team for making such a difference at Linda Mar removing weeds and […]
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Back from my vacation in Europe, I want to sincerely thank Chris Burr, Julie Walters & Joe Recto for running the June Mussel Rock Cleanup in my absence. Volunteers, today in July, enjoyed the new vista point including 2 picnic tables, information boards and 5 large granite blocks. This was where we displayed our refreshments, buckets and gloves. As the […]
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Since 2014, we have been partnering with TerraCycle to recycle our cigarette butts. This has been a wonderful collaboration considering that we have sent over 400,000 of them! TerraCycle is a free program that recycles way more than cigarette butts and recently they started a Beach Plastic Recycling pilot that we are proud to be part of. Moving forward, during […]
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Thank you ACUX Google Team for coming to Pacifica and for cleaning and restoring habitat at Linda Mar State Beach! Special thanks to Laura who took most of the shots and caught the Give Back volunteers doing GREAT things! We especially loved the shots with the super star jumping in the air to stomp the shovel into the cement hard […]
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Two recent graduates from Oceana and Terra Nova high schools, received the first ever PBC Earth Hero Scholarship. The scholarship is in the amount of $500 and was presented at our last event “A Plastic Ocean” movie night. Audrey Meiman, who has been cleaning up our beaches and streets since she was a young kid and Paxton Christner, who has […]
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It’s that time of year again, time for fun in honor of our nation’s independence. Let’s be good Americans and take care of this beautiful land and ocean we have been so blessed to share. After all, with freedom comes responsibility. Here are a few quick tips for greening your July 4th. Can the fireworks Fireworks are a long standing […]
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Do you remember our first Emergency cleanup at Tunitas Creek Beach? Or when we picked up over 1000 lbs of trash? Well, it all started with Michael, a local who contacted us about this beach and asked us for our help. From there, we started taking actions because so many bad things were happening: from illegal parking or camping to […]
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We finally have all the results in: 6807 Volunteers removed 3783.5 lbs of trash! Thank you all for making Pacific Beach Coalition’s Earth Day 2017 the best ever! City-wide, and Coastside cleanups, tree planting, weeding, a new garden at the Quarry! Amazing work all. And then there was the EcoFest, booths, speakers, hands on activities and the Paint a […]
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At 9am on the 4th Saturday cleanup at Mussel Rock on 27 May 2017, there was only 1 volunteer who signed in. Henry Barrack attends Hillsdale School and is due to graduate this week. It was quite cool, but not foggy, while Henry and I put out all the buckets, gloves and pick up sticks. Soon, the sun began to […]
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Our May 20, 2017 Linda Mar Cleanup was destined to be a big one, what with the great weather we were having. As the morning sun rose, cutting the fog with a warm blast, we knew we were in for a lot of litter, as is often the case when big crowds come to the beach. But wait! Where was […]
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