"Shake Your Tail - Save a Whale"
“Jeff Christner always finds some interesting items down on the rip rap. Always lots of buoys, rope and fishing equipment,” says Julie Walters Brownell, Mussel Rock’s co-site captain. And indeed, Jeff has been volunteering for 6 years along with his son Paxton and developed a very good eyes for the most unusual pieces of litter. Both of them are the […]
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17 students from Compass High School in San Francisco cleaned Linda Mar beach today. We picked up 22 lbs of trash, it does not seem like a lot, but at Linda Mar most of the litter are tinny little pieces and styrofoam, so 22 lbs represent a large volume of trash. Well done guys and thank you for coming!
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Did You Know? Pacifica’s beaches have been in the smoke-free zone since 2006. Spread the word to help keep harmful butt litter out of the environment and protect our beautiful coastline! Read more about the campaign that created Northern California’s first smoke-free beaches and pier, and about the toxic impact You can make a difference by supporting our current campaign […]
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“Vanishing of the Bees” Friday Night Documentary Film Night highlighting threatened bees with special guest Loret Farris of the Beekeepers Guild of San Mateo County. Held in partnership with Pacifica Libraries, Sharp Park Library on Hilton Way, Pacifica – 7:00pm The movie examines the issue of Colony Collapse Disorder, which has caused startling numbers of honeybees to disappear in recent years. […]
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Some of the largest baleen whales—such as blue whales, fin whales and humpbacks—fall into a family called rorquals that use an unusual method of feeding. These whales feed on aggregations of zooplankton and fish by lunging with their mouths open wide to tremendous gape angles to force huge volumes of water and prey into their expandable oral cavities. This extreme […]
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Once again thank you to the Mussel Rockstars! Despite the holidays, we had a great turn around: 18 volunteers. I think we all needed a break from the Christmas madness, and also get some exercise after eating too much good and heavy food. Today we picked up: 221 lb trash 20 lb recyclables 300 cigarette butts 10 bottle caps 5 straws […]
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Yesterday, I went to Sharp Park Beach and picked up 11.5lbs of trash. This included about 1.5 lbs or 35 pieces of blobs of tar. They range in size from a quarter to a small pancake. They are not sticky, but still very pliable and very aromatic. Has anyone else seen these? There are still a lot more there, mostly […]
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Right before the rain, 11 volunteers joined us on a short notice to clean Tunitas Creek before the rain. Unfortunately, because of the high tides, a lot of the trash was covered in sand when we arrived but we still cleaned up ~400 LBS of debris. From office chair, to ropes, beer cans and broken glass, our courageous team did […]
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Members of the Radiance Church of San Francisco and students from Westborough Middle School collected 80 pounds of trash at Sharp Park beachs’ monthly clean up. These 3 awesome students from Westborough Middle School helped me with PBC’s cigarette butt project. they filled pots with sand and distributed them all the way down the pier. they also picked up quite […]
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A major new study of the world’s oceans has reached a shocking conclusion: Thanks to humans, there are now over 5 trillion pieces of plastic, weighing more than 250,000 tons, floating in water around the world. With a global population of about 7.2 billion, that’s nearly 700 pieces per person. The study, published in the journal PLOS One by Marcus Eriksen of theFive […]
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