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Kelp Fun Facts

Kelp can grow to be one hundred feet tall! Kelp is a place to hide for many fishes. Kelp is food for abalones such as the California Red Abalone. Kelp forests make tons of oxygen for nearby waters. Kelp has goopy stuff called phycocolloids in its cell walls. This is what keeps it flexible and slippery! Kelp have gas-filled bladders called pneumatocysts. These bladders help hold […]

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2018 Was Astonishing, See All We Have Done!

Pacific Beach Coalition 2018 Successes Some Numbers: – 14,352 Volunteers – 161,196 Cigarette Butts – 16,933 lbs of Trash – 2,681 lbs of Recycle – 50,796 lbs of Green Waste Our Actions & Field Programs Earth Day of Action (find full report and pictures here): – 1,698 Volunteers – 14,873 Cigarette Butts – 3,588 lbs of Trash – 786 lbs of Recycle – 3,886 lbs […]

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Tidepools and Sea Stars with San Mateo Outdoor Education Program

Video Highlights Learning through SMCOE’s Outdoor Education Program   The San Mateo County Office of Education’s  (SMCOE) Outdoor Education program is the focus of a new video by Every Second Breath Project. The stunning video captures the program’s creative efforts to teach students about the importance of tidepools. The video features Mark Nolan, SMCOE’s Director of Outdoor Environmental Education, who […]

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Rockaway Switchbacks – Looking for Site Captains

If you are interested in joining our team of incredible site captains and love gardening, please send us an email at info @ pacificabeachcoalition.org. Thank you!   About the Restoration: The Rockaway Switchbacks and beach bluffs habitat restoration project started three years ago with the question “what if”. The Rockaway Switchbacks area has been overrun by non-native invasive cape ivy, mustard, […]

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Jeff & Paxton’s Fight Against Plastic

We Couldn’t Be More Proud of our Volunteers Jeff and Paxton!   Pacifica Magazine features Jeff and Paxton (graduate of Oceana High School and honored with PBC’s first Earth Hero scholarship program) Christner and Mussel Rockstars in their October 2018 edition. Probably one of the most amazing story about plastic and our OCEAN Problem! –A must READ! Story available in the […]

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