by Beth | Jun 14, 2012 | Education, Good Causes
Last week I wrote about Ocean Conservancy’s 30 Day Trash Free Challenge , which offers weekly tips on how to reduce your trash consumption. Last week’s tip was to use reusable bags. This week’s tip it to use reusable coffee and travel mugs. A photo...
by Beth | Jun 13, 2012 | Education, Good Causes
Did you know that half of the earth’s oxygen comes from phytoplankton, a one-celled plant that lives on the ocean’s surface? Or that one in six jobs is in some way marine related? Whether you live in a coastal town by the sea, or in a land locked state and...
by Beth | Jun 7, 2012 | Attractions, Education, Good Causes
Tomorrow is World Ocean day. If you would like to participate in the global celebration, click here to find a local event in your area. For those of you in my neck of the ocean, Santa Cruz, here are a few goings on around town. The Seymour Center is offering free...
by Beth | May 31, 2012 | Education, Good Causes
Imagine if 10,000 people decided to not make as much trash for one month.We could reduce the trash on Earth and in our ocean by over a million pounds. Take Ocean Conservancy’s 30 Day Trash-Free Challenge and join the movement to stop trash before it starts. To...
by Beth | May 30, 2012 | Education, Good Causes
Here are some interesting facts about coral reefs that you may not know. Corals are found all over the world in shallow, tropical waters and on the deep, dark ocean floor. Despite their appearance, corals are neither rocks nor plants; corals are living animals. Coral...
by Beth | May 22, 2012 | Education
This is a photo I took a few weeks ago at an Earth Day Festival I attended. It is the stomach contents of an albatross. This stomach regurgitation, called “bolus,” represents the kind of plastic junk sea birds often mistake for food. The plastic string is...
