Oceans, Waves and Beaches

Many of us feel like we’re watching a slow-motion, multi-week disaster unfold with no way to personally make a difference.
Here are five things YOU can do.
1) Join more than 11,000 others and make your voice heard.
Tell President Obama to restore the FULL moratorium that was put in place under Bush I (and [...]

DIY (do it yourself) isn’t anything new. I’ve written about it a few times on this blog because I love when an idea moves to a distributed ownership model. Further, one could argue that this idea isn’t new at all and that all activism has had a strong sense of do it yourself since day [...]

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This session covers how to prepare, plan, and promote a core volunteer training. Case studies from Los Angeles and San Diego are also included.
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This session discusses the benefits of a core volunteer training. It builds on the two first to parts shared earlier.
This session answers the simple question “what are the benefits of core volunteer training.”
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This session covers the goals of a core volunteer training and how it relates to the chapter.
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Part 1 in a series of videos oriented around core volunteer training. Lindsey Jurca from our West Malibu chapter and Bill Hickman from the San Diego chapter lead the session. Kudos to Mike Pannon for the video work.
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I’ll pop up the other videos in the weeks ahead. In the meantime, they can all be found [...]

I’ve pointed to mapping applications a few times. This one offers our campaigns in Google maps. This iphone app maps where we are finding single-use plastics. On another post I popped up a quick way to capture the nuances of a physical place/thing (i.e. capturing a seawall in multiple dimensions to create a solid historical [...]

If you want to connect with people, live where they live.
Literally go to the places that people go, and make a connection.
Another way to say this is don’t build a website and think people will come to you… they won’t. Instead go to where they already are… Find a way to stream your messaging into [...]