Save Our Shores is a non-profit marine conservation organization in Santa Cruz, California. Our mission: caring for the marine environment through ocean awareness, advocacy, and citizen action.
 

Clean Beaches are Patriotic! Get Involved in Our July 4th & 5th Efforts

Submitted by emily on Thu, 06/04/2009 - 10:16.
Last year, over 40,000 people visited Santa Cruz County beaches on July 4th. In 2008, Save Our Shores and members of the Clean Beaches Coalition (including Ecology Action, Surfrider Santa Cruz, and Pack Your Trash) ran beach cleanups on 7 beaches. Cleanup volunteers removed 3,000 pounds of trash in just 3 hours on July 5th, 2008 with an estimated total of 15,000 pounds of trash having been removed off our beaches over July 4th and 5th!

This year, SOS and  Clean Beaches Coalition members, will be walking beaches including Rio Del Mar, Seacliff, Twin Lakes, Seabright, and Santa Cruz Main Beach, to spread the Pollution Prevention message on July 4th from noon until 4pm. On the 5th, we will be running beach cleanups at Seacliff, Rio Del Mar, Twin Lakes, Seabright, Davenport Main Beach, and Panther Beach from 7am to 10am. In addition, Seascape Resort will be running a beach cleanup at Seascape beach. To join either of these efforts on the upcoming July 4th weekend, please visit the Clean Beaches Coalition website  for details and registration.
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Sign Save Our Shores' Petition in Support of Taxing Single-Use Bags

Submitted by emily on Fri, 04/24/2009 - 11:04.
Single-use plastic bags pose a serious threat to the health of our environment. Plastic bags take up to 10-20 years just to break into smaller pieces, but like all plastic items, plastic bags will never fully breakdown. There is nothing naturally occuring in our environment that can break plastic polymers down. That means every plastic bag you've ever used will be on this Earth forever!

Please sign the Single-Use Plastic Bag Petition in order to show support for Assembly Bill 68, which would require large grocery stores and convenience stores to charge a 25 cent fee for plastic and paper bags! Save Our Shores will take your signatures to the City of Santa Cruz in order to encourage our City to support AB 68. By visiting the Heal The Bay website, you can also write a letter to Julia Brownley, author of AB 68, in order to thank her for her efforts to try and pass this Bill.
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Save Our State Park Beaches!

Submitted by emily on Tue, 06/02/2009 - 10:51.
The governor has proposed closing 220 of 279 State Parks and Beaches in California, including each and every one in Santa Cruz County!

Santa Cruz County Beaches that will be effected include: Big Basin Redwoods State Park (SP), Castle Rock State Park, Castro Adobe State Historic Park (SHP), Coast Dairies State Park, Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, Lighthouse Field State Beach (SB), Manresa SB, Manresa Uplands SP, Natural Bridges SB, New Brighton SB, Palm SB, Rio Del Mar SB, Santa Cruz Mission SHP, Seabright SB, Seacliff SB, Sunset SB,The Forest of Nisene Marks, Twin Lakes SB, Wilder Ranch SP

WHAT YOU CAN DO:
1. COME TO THE RALLY - Monday, June 1, 5:30 PM, at Natural Bridges State Beach, in the parking lot before the entrance station. Rally participants will be able to use a mobile computing station, supported by a beach-area wi-fi hotspot, to send messages to Governor Schwarzenegger and legislators. We hope for good media coverage, so please come and bring your friends and family.  Express your love for the parks by bringing signs, wearing your favorite park t-shirt or docent-wear.
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Do you LIVE BLUE?

Submitted by alpine on Fri, 05/29/2009 - 20:57.

If someone hands you a small blue marble don’t be surprised. Here’s what to do: Give it away to someone who is also taking care of our big blue ocean.

Or give it to someone else along with a tip about how to live blue.

Then share your story, pictures or videos on BlueMarbles.organd inspire others to live blue. To get your blue marble, or a couple to share stop by the SOS office or volunteer for one of our summer events! And if you want to get inspired check out the blog to read other people's Blue Marble stories.

SOS helps Pro-Am Beach Soccer Tourny make the event more ocean friendly!

Submitted by alpine on Fri, 05/22/2009 - 10:42.

Save Our Shores is partnering with the upcoming Pro-Am Beach Soccer tournament to ensure that the 2009 Santa Cruz event is ocean friendly and we need your help! We are committed to helping teams reduce their ocean "flipper print" by providing the Cool Down Zone at the tournament.  It's a place to rest between games, refill your water bottles with chilled, filtered water and cool down!

To kick off our efforts to reduce plastic beverage bottles at the tournament, we're asking teams to commit to the idea of bringing only reusable water bottles to the tournament. If you fill out our online Bring Your Own Bottle Pledge we will enter you in a raffle to win Klean Kanteens for your entire team!

  • Deadline to submit the pledge: May 26th, 09
  • Winners will be notified: May 28th, 09
  • The bottles will be waiting for you at the Check-in Desk: May 29th, 09

Thank you for joining our efforts!

The Plastics "Out There" and "In Here"

Submitted by alpine on Wed, 05/13/2009 - 14:30.
SOS's Board of Directors member J. Nichols just published an inspiring OpEd on the Marine Debris and Plastics issue on the Huffington Post.  Take a few minutes to read his piece and get inspired to find ways to eliminate disposable plastics from your day-to-day life today! 

"There's a patch of ocean out there about as far as you can get from people on this small blue marble we call Earth, and it is slowly filling with tiny flecks of plastic.

First, they said it was a "large area" the size of Texas. Then it was two Texases. Then, a continent. They said the plastic fragments outnumbered plankton..."  Read more

Save Our Shores Makes a Splash at Offshore Oil drilling Hearings!

Submitted by emily on Fri, 04/17/2009 - 15:06.
Save Our Shores' sea creature costumes drew attention on Thursday the 16th at the Offshore Oil Drilling Hearings hosted by Interior Secretary Salazar in San Francisco. The hearings were to gauge public opinion on the issue of offshore oil drilling in order to determine what actions the Obama Administration will be taking this fall with regard to allowing new offshore oil and gas drilling in our most sensitive coastal waters, and for approval of renewable energy industry proposals off of our coast.

Laura Kasa, Executive director of Save Our Shores along with Chris Gay, a dedicated Save Our Shores volunteer, were interviewed in their costumes!
Check out this video from the CBS News, and ABC 7 news.  To Learn more about the issue visit KTVU.
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Save Our Shores' Marine Debris Program Highlighted on KION News!

Submitted by lauren on Mon, 04/13/2009 - 11:34.
KION news
KION News ran a story on the Save Our Shores marine debris program.  Aleah Lawrence-Pine spoke with the reporters about the problem of trash in our oceans and beaches.  Our Adopt-a-Beach program is also highlighted.  Thanks KION!
Click here to see the video and the story.
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