I think the Earth can be proud of us! At Pillar Point we had an amazing group of very motivated volunteers. Almost everyone showed up well before 9 AM and was ready for some action! The volunteers kept on coming with buckets and hands full of tires, pieces of wood or metal scraps. But thanks to Gina (from Apple), Nicole David, […]
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From Kristine’s blog, our new site captain at Montara State Beach. Completing over 52 days of beach cleanups this year, I can now say the hardest aspect of doing them, is being on the front lines of environmental pollution on a daily basis. It is not actually getting to the beach and picking up the trash, but merely witnessing the disregard […]
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Bay Area High School Team Serves and Learns By: Jackson Confer – following a volunteer workday for their team led by the Pacific Beach Coalition at Linda Mar State Beach The beaches of Northern California are the beaches that I’ve grown up on, and I never realized exactly how polluted they were until I took part in a recent beach cleanup though the […]
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PBC sends the butts to the cans By Jean Bartlett Features Correspondent Posted: 07/21/2015 05:05:02 PM PDT submitted photo Cigarette container made by Eco-Pop Designs at Sharp Park. Eco-Pop Designs is owned and run by Pacifican Mitch Reid. In business for over 25 years, Reid’s company combines “ecology, pop art and invention to make public recycling collection containers, and […]
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Join SFBBO for a free movie, Sunday, Nov. 8, 2015 1:00-4:00 p.m. Milpitas Library, Milpitas Free, RSVP to outreach@sfbbo.org David was the guest speaker at SFBBO’s 2015 Annual Membership Meeting and will answer questions and share about his research after the film. The Ross Sea, Antarctica is the most pristine stretch of ocean on Earth. A vast, frozen landscape that […]
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Beach cleanups cancelled due to COVID-19 regulations BUT you can still volunteer for our Street to Beach Cleanups program. Check it out! About Tunitas Creek Beach: Tunitas Creek Beach is a wide and long beach next to Highway 1 a couple miles South of downtown Half Moon Bay. There are two ways to get to the beach: the first one […]
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After what seems like months of cold overcast weather, the sun shined today and an awesome Genentech Give Back team soaked it up while cleaning the beach and parking lots from the Pedro Point Shopping center to the Rockaway bluff. We did it! And oh how about Pedro Point! Finding lots of Velella Velella, a chunk of […]
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Team Two of the Genentech Give Back crew started their internships by taking a trip to Pacifica, cleaning the Rockaway beaches and waterfront and removing weeds along the bike path descending to Linda Mar State Beach. Fun was the first order of business, oh and meeting each other! But then this team got down to business collecting 14 pounds of plastic […]
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Was that recovered buoy from the Tsunami? Where did the other buoy and styrofoam piece come from? Genentech Giveback Team One took time out of their week to come to Pacifica and help Sharp Park. Along the way, they recovered some suspect pieces, thousands of pieces of plastic trash, and 725 cigarette butts, 14 bottle caps, 10 straws, a broken […]
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Sunshine from start to finish …bagels and juice to kick off the day and pizza, tacos, and lots of refreshments at the Surf spot to finish the day… what a great day of work! And a GREAT day for Sharp Park Beach and Rockaway bluff as well! Forty two pounds of trash doesn’t seem like much but when you add the […]
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