Blogger Beach Cleanup
Thanks to the 120+ volunteers, 40+ bloggers, nonprofit groups, and sponsors who made Blogger Beach Cleanup a success — and congratulations to the prize winners!
Enjoy photos and a few videos from the event. Stay tuned for more eco-actions — and stay an environmental activist in the meantime!
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Here are all the Blogger Beach Cleanup-related posts!
Join the Blogger Beach Cleanup and clean the beach for 20 minutes on the International Day of Climate Action with Siel of green LA girl and Sara Bayles of The Daily Ocean! Then mingle and mix with like-minded green Angelenos over drinks and yummies while plotting out a plan for our sustainable future.
When: October 24, 2009. Meet at 4 pm; cleanup begins 4:20 pm; more fun ensues 4:40 until ?
Where: Santa Monica Beach at Ocean Park, between lifeguard stations 26 and 27. (map and green travel directions)
Anyone — blogger or not — is invited! All you need to do is show up, ready to pick up trash — we’ll provide all the supplies you need. You’ll clean the beach — but only for 20 minutes (why only 20 minutes? Learn more about The Daily Ocean’s project).
After that, you’ll hear very brief invitations from local nonprofits for the next event that lets YOU make a difference in this whole big problem of climate change you’ve been hearing so much about.
Then you’ll get to chill out, drink, and eat with your new friends at the post-cleanup happy hour while waxing lyrical about pristine beaches, clean waters, local craft beer….
Why you want to be there:
1. The first 70 volunteers to arrive will get to pick from (first come first freebied):
>> a FREE reusable Envirosax bag, or
>> a FREE reusable Green Bag Lady tote, or
>> a FREE reusable FilterForGood water bottle to use and reuse!
2. You could win cool prizes. We’ll have prizes for:
>> The top 3 people who pick up the most trash:
>>First Place: $50 gift certificate from Co-opportunity, Santa Monica’s co-op natural grocer. Get your organic fair trade coffee and chocolate or locally made raw desserts with farmers’ market ingredients here.
>> Second Place: A FilterForGood prize pack, including a Brita filter, 2 BPA-free Nalgene bottles, and a copy of The Lazy Environmentalist on a Budget.
>>Third Place: A Greenpeace prize pack, including 2 organic T-shirts, a 2010 calendar, a copy of DeSmogBlog’s new book, Climate Cover-Up, and more.
>>The top four bloggers who bring out the most volunteers:
A $50 gift certificate from The Green Life, a one-stop-shop eco-store on Santa Monica’s popular Main Street.
One of three $50 gift certificate from SEED Restaurant, a Japanese-American fusion vegan macrobiotic restaurant in Venice started by Chef Eric Lechasseur that uses local, organic ingredients for its dishes.
>> One lucky volunteer traveling car-free: Clif Bar Prize Pack from Clif Bar with two organic T-shirts, Luna cap and socks, upcycled zip-up Clif-Terracycle bag, and a box of Clif Bars.
>>The nonprofit with the best web goal: Web and social media goal-setting and goal implementation with the help of Net2LA.
3. You’ll get free snacks and drinks to fuel your volunteerism, like:
>> Clif and Luna bars — Yummy energy bars and organic fruit rolls! We’ll have new Luna Cookies, Clif Kid, and Mojo bars in new flavors — in addition to the classic Clif and Luna bars.
>> Guayaki’s Lemon Elation — A refreshing, fair trade, organic drink with a yerba mate kick! Plus, Guayaki works to regrow rainforests through its sustainability-minded business model.
4. You’ll meet cool friendly people at the post-cleanup happy hour at:
Pourtal Wine Tasting Bar. Happy hour will feature free appetizers with ingredients from the Santa Monica Farmers’ Market — plus organic and natural wines. Also, 15% of sales from the wine tasting machines will go to Heal the Bay!
5. You’ll learn what this whole “global climate change” thing’s all about — or if you already know what it’s all about, you’ll learn about some practical actions you can take to combat it — while hanging out with said cool people.
Sign up to participate on 350.org! or by emailing greenlagirl@gmail.com.
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Participating bloggers
>> Patrick Lennon, Erik Lingvall, and Matthew Geller of Green Guys Media (more)
>> Tracy Hepler and Lauren Johanson, Your Daily Thread (more)
>> Whitney Lauritsen, Eco-Vegan Gal (more)
>> Lisa Newton, Travelin’ Local (more)
>> Caroline, Caroline on Crack (more)
>> Rosemary Brennan, Booking It Bus Style (more)
>> Alex Thompson, Westside Bikeside! (more)
>> Dan Cashdan, The Climate Community
>> Amanda F. Lipsey, Life Without Wheels (more)
>> Sarah Shewey, Pink Cloud Events (more)
>> Millie, A Year of Earth Days (more)
>> Jennifer Saul and Christy Coleman, Christy Coleman (more)
>> Benjamin Goldfarb, AltUse Blog (more)
>> Evan Kopelson, Green Media News (more)
>> Joe Linton, L.A. Creek Freak (more)
>> Kaitlyn Mack, The Reach Magazine TV blog (more)
>> Micki Krimmel, NeighborGoods blog (more)
>> Darren Moore, Ecovations (more)
>> H.C., L.A. and O.C. Foodventures (more)
>> Jessica Ridenour, Lime.com (more)
>> Britt, The Bowie Bride (more)
>> Alf LaMont, Take a Swig of Alf and The Comedy Store (more)
>> Zel McCarthy, soundbleed (more)
>> Roya, Fashionable Earth (more)
>> Apple Levy, The Green Girls (more)
>> Yolanda Evans, Eater LA (more)
>> Stacy Cullington, Tadpole Marketing Blog (more)
>> Kai Soremekun, CHICK Blog (more)
>> Cosmo, Los Angeles Cycle Chic (more)
>> Damien Somerset, Shift Logic (more)
>> Joe Magee, PineMark Blog (more)
>> Beth Terry, Fake Plastic Fish (more)
>> Donavan, FunctionalCycling (more)
>> Hillary Newman, Hillary Newman (more)
>> Bill Lascher, Lascher at Large (more)
>> Diana, Diana Takes a Bite
>> Jenny, jennio.net
>> Davida Heller, Ecospire
>> Beth Whitfield, Eco Style Designer
>> Leslie Berliant, EnergyBoom
Email greenlagirl@gmail.com to sign up as a blogger-participant and your blog will be highlighted both on green LA girl and The Daily Ocean. Get blog bling for Blogger Beach Cleanup and announce your eco-volunteering ways!
Blogger Beach Cleanup Partners:
Heal the Bay. Blogger Beach Cleanup’s a Heal the Bay Adopt-A-Beach program event. Heal the Bay is a nonprofit environmental organization dedicated to making Southern California coastal waters and watersheds, including Santa Monica Bay, safe, healthy and clean.
Net2LA. This web-savvy organization’s goal is to use social media for social good. One eco-nonprofit participating in the Blogger Beach Cleanup will be selected as a “test case” for Net2LA, receiving advice and help on everything from revamping websites to implementing a social media strategy from web-savvy Net2LA members.
Sustainable Works. This Santa Monica-based nonprofit educational environmental organization offers educational classes and greening programs to help people and businesses lower their carbon footprints. (more)
C.I.C.L.E. This L.A. nonprofit promotes the bicycle as a viable, healthy, and sustainable transportation choice through fun events, classes, and talks. (more)
Natural Resources Defense Council. This environmental action group’s goal’s simple: “to protect wildlife and wild places and to ensure a healthy environment for all life on earth.” (more)
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Sign up to be part of the Blogger Beach Cleanup!
About the International Day of Climate Action:
The International Day of Climate Action is a global call to action to put our world on course to get back to 350ppm (parts per million), the number that leading scientists say is the safe upper limit for carbon dioxide in our atmosphere to avoid runaway climate change.
About the organizers:
The Daily Ocean is a blog written by Sara Bayles, who’s cleaning Santa Monica beach for 365 non-consecutive days and documenting the process in a creative effort to bring attention to beach and ocean pollution.
green LA girl is Siel’s personal blog, covering eco-happenings in the L.A. area and beyond.
