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2020 Annual $500 Scholarship: Adeline Wilson
Four plus years ago a young woman attended a Pacific Beach Coalition meeting, started helping at beach cleanups, and joined in the habitat restoration events too! Now, after logging 335.5 volunteer hours (most of them with the Pacific Beach Coalition) with Oceana High School’s volunteer program, Adeline Wilson will be completing her senior year and graduating on May 15th. Adeline is passionate about stewardship […]
Read more74.5 Pounds Picked up on Montara Beach Jan 11th!
It was a gorgeous day at Montara beach Jan 11th, when 28 Earth Hero’s from all over the Bay Area picked up 60 pounds of trash, 14.5 pounds of recycling, 91 cigarette butts and 6 plastic straws. Special thank you this month to our junior site captain Ben, our naturalist Julie, and PBC’s Lynn Adam’s who stepped in at the […]
Read moreEco-Friendly Halloween – Say Boo to Plastic
Up-cycled and low-waste decorations, costumes and treat ideas for you and your family to celebrate Halloween.
Read more75.5 Pounds of Trash Collected During a Chilly December Montara Cleanup
18 Earth Heroes came out on a cold and blustery December morning to clean Montara Beach. Many volunteers reported this was the cleanest beach they had ever seen…yet together we were able to remove 29 pounds of trash, 6.5 pounds of recycling, and 110 cigarette butts from the beach and bluffs! In addition, we were able to rescue a 40 […]
Read moreAlbatross Fun Facts
Fun Facts About Wisdom Now thought to be at least 70 years old and hatched 40 or more chicks, she just hatched another chick on Feb 1st 2021. And because Wisdom is probably 70 years it means that she has logged over 3 BILLION miles! Sporting the red ankle band Z333, she is at least 70 this year, the oldest-known […]
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Albatross PBC’s Earth Hero Honoree 2020-2021 The North Pacific albatrosses are large seabirds from the genus Phoebastria in the albatross family. They are the most tropical of the albatrosses, with two species (the Laysan and black-footed albatrosses) nesting in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, one on sub-tropical islands south of Japan (the short-tailed albatross), and one nesting on the equator (the waved albatross). When roosting, they choose isolated sites and lay one egg, with both parents incubating and raising the […]
Read more91,421 Filters Collected for the Butt Blitz
Our 2019 Butt Blitz came to an end on the Coastal Cleanup Day weekend and we finally got all the numbers in… 91,421 cigarette butts collected all around the Peninsula. Beyond San Mateo County While we thought it was only going to be a San Mateo county initiative, YOU (=incredible Earth Heroes) took it beyond our county limits. Palo Alto, […]
Read moreThermoFisher and Salesforce Give Back at Rockaway
Thank you ThermoFisher team! What a great job done by ThermoFisher this week. 1173 cigarette filters, 38 pounds of trash/recycles removed, 1250 pounds of thistles pulled to make way for native vegetation from Rockaway District and removing thistle and the Headland. Thank you Team ThermoFisher! Thank you Salesforce team! Slowly but surely the Italian Thistle on the Rockaway Headlands is […]
Read moreHow To Organize A Cleanup
List of Tips to Organize Your Own Cleanups Leading your own beach cleanups, street cleanups, park cleanups and/or neighborhood is a great way to take care of the place you love and give back to your community. We understand that becoming a site captain can be a lot of commitments. So, here is a list of tips that should help […]
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