"Shake Your Tail - Save a Whale"
KidZone from WDCS: Learn about the amazing world of whales and dolphins with interactive animations and activities. Click here. —– From Scholastic: Explore the world of dolphins with science and vocabulary lessons. Students will learn about dolphin biology and marine life through these quick language arts activities. Click here. —– From SeeWinter and Clearwater Marine Aquarium. Lesson plans are available […]
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On Saturday 25 March, as I was attending the American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting in San Francisco, Joe Recto stood in admirably as Site Captain and was assisted by many of the site’s Rock Stars who are regular supporters of this cleanup plus new volunteers. See photos below. Good weather and a 35-strong group of volunteers cleaned up 147 lb trash and 800 cigarette butts. […]
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What a gorgeous day we had last weekend for our cleanup. Not sure if our hard work is finally paying off, but our volunteers picked up only 87 lbs of trash and 16 pounds of recycle. By far the smallest amount of trash collected in a while. 224 cigarette butts, 10 straws, 34 bottle caps collected which is still a […]
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Paint a Bucket to End Cigarette Litter Calling all artists and everyone who wants to help end tobacco litter! We are having a community contest to draw attention to the many 10-gallon buckets we are putting outside businesses to collect cigarette butts, by colorfully painting them with an ocean theme. Fish, whales, dolphins, otters, turtles, birds, crabs… all are affected by […]
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SF BAY AREA’S LARGEST EARTH DAY CLEANUP AND CELEBRATION: April 2019 – Pacifica, CA – On April 27th, the Pacific Beach Coalition (PBC), in partnership with the City of Pacifica and its residents, will be hosting its 15th Annual Earth Day Celebration, the largest Earth Day cleanup in the entire Bay Area. From 9:00am to 11:00am, with the help of […]
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Having counted only 5 volunteers at the last cleanup, I was very surprised to greet a big group from Fremont as early as 8.45 am when I pulled up at my site to unload my car. From then on, even more volunteers arrived. We counted a total of 48 volunteers including groups from UCSF, Rakuten, Davita, and Skyline College. We picked up 137 […]
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Today was a BEAUTIFUL day! The sun was out – how amazing is this?! I had almost forgotten about that guy! But the most beautiful part of the day was our 25 volunteers who came to pick up the trash out of Pillar Point Harbor and beach. We collected 88 pounds of trash 25 pounds of recycle and 142 cigarette butts. […]
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Rain? Oh we can handle rain. But WIND! Whew! As steady 30 mph winds almost blew us all over, once again our returning earth heroes at Linda Mar Beach returned on Saturday, Feb 18! Thank you once again to Danny Yanow and his Westborough Middle School Wind Warriors, close to 50 energetic souls, Aragon, Oceana, Terra Nova and East Bay […]
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It is a very special award and after running for almost 5 years, the PBC finally won! We have worked so hard to educate people about sustainability and environmental practices for almost 20 years. With the help and support of the City, our yearly sponsors like Recology, NCCWD, County of San Mateo, Pacifica Tribune, Pedro Point Surf Club, Mazzetti’s Bakery, Pacifica and […]
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A shootout to the Gatepath group, who volunteered at Go Native Nursery for the morning. Because the weather was so uncertain (rain – no rain??), they chose to work inside and stay dry, instead of working on the exposed beach bluffs. One of things that they got to see was to watch newly seeded purple needlegrass seeds. When first watered, […]
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