"Shake Your Tail - Save a Whale"
Bank of America gave back today! They came and started weeding the Rockaway Switchbacks -pulling Wild Fennel, Radish, Mustard, Star Thistle and that horrible Sticky Ox Tongue. Thank you so much for coming and helping us give our beautiful coast its pristine state! And let’s not forget the efforts from the previous team on May 13th. That day and in two […]
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Shout out to Team Thermo Fisher for cleaning Linda Mar State beach and removing invasive weeds on the berm by the highway and Taco Bell corner. Thank you to Taco Bell for treating us to a free lunch!
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A handful of hardy volunteers and neighbors showed up Thursday afternoon to help clean up Esplanade Beach. In addition to five pounds of trash and styrofoam pieces large and small, more than 100 cigarette butts were collected from the street, ground and the black bucket by the benches. “Interesting” finds included a barnacle-encrusted fishing buoy, another chunk of blue crate, […]
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Thank you to Earth Heroes Céline Gerakin Pillar Point site captain, San Mateo County Park Ranger Rob Cala and others who cut and removed this stranded boat. For a week this sailing vessel has been in the mind of the locals and the community helped every single day to secure and dissemble the boat before it could break up and […]
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AGENDA 1.) Introductions 2.) The Army Corps of Engineers will give an overview presentation about the following recently released reports: Jan 2015 — Engineering Report for North Half Moon Bay Shoreline Improvement Project Appendix Oct 2015 — Environmental Assessment for the North Half Moon Bay Feasibility Study Undated — Economic Report for North Half Moon Bay May 2016 — Detailed Project Report – TBD Link to […]
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Did you know? Here are 5 fun & easy to remember facts about sea otters. Fact1: Sea otters have incredibly fast metabolisms; a 60-pound adult sea otter eats at least 15 pounds of food (25% of its body weight) each and every day. That’s the same as an average teenager eating 120 hamburgers. Fact2: Weighing between 30 and 100 pounds, […]
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Thank you all so very much for joining us last month at our annual Earth Day of Action & EcoFest. Here are the final numbers with all 80 sites reporting: 7,286 Volunteers 4,025 lbs of Trash 1,031 lbs of Recycling material 7,609 lbs of weeds (non native & invasive species) 15,923 Cigarette butts Assemblies at 15 schools 5785 students learned about […]
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TerraCycle is an innovative environmental company, located near Boston, that recycles many different products normally destined for the waste stream into products that can be reused. Brigades of volunteers collect them and ship them to their company free of charge. Cigarette butts, ash, and silver paper inserts, collected by cigarette butt brigades are recycled, into guitar picks, jewelry, and ash trays. Since […]
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Words from our dear Patty: “Earth Day Habitat Restoration at Rockaway with Deacon Noel & the Confirmation Teens from Good Shepherd. Thank you for all your hard work!”
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Words from Dig it Dave, our Roberts Road Site Captain: “This Earth Day I got to wear many hats. I got Team Dig It together to clean up Roberts Road. Sharon Van Huystee Martinez my other half did a great job organizing the team, sorting, and calculating. It was nice to see that we didn’t have much trash to pick […]
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