Around the Bay

First 100 Volunteers at Bay Street Site Receive Jazz Concert Tickets

Heal the Bay and California Greenworks Inc, have joined forces to thank Coastal Cleanup Day volunteers with a FREE concert ticket for EarthFest L.A. 2012!
First 100 Volunteers at Bay Street Site Receive Jazz Concert Tickets

Cyclists: New Mountain Bike Site Added for CCD

Come help Mountains Restoration Trust and Heal the Bay clean areas that are hard to reach on foot!
Mountain Bike Stream Team Restoration at Malibu Creek State Park

CCD 2012: Introducing the Bay Street Site

Bay Street has been added as one of the Coastal Cleanup Day sites in Southern California. 
Coastal Cleanup Day Bay Street Beach Inkwell

What Are Those Black Clumps on the Beach?

One of our Facebook fans recently posted the following question on the Heal the Bay Facebook page: “I was walking along Dockweiler Beach from Marina del Rey towards El Segundo, and I couldn't help but notice black sticky roundish clumps all along t…
tar ball natural oil seeps Santa Monica Bay Dockweiler Beach

A Super Staffer Shares Her Story

In January 2005, after a month of being holed up in our tiny Santa Monica apartment and listening to the rain fall incessantly outside, I knew I had to get out and do something productive with my time. I was still adjusting to my new surroundings af…
Sylvie Makara volunteer Santa Monica Pier Aquarium Key to the Sea naturalist

Can World’s Largest Retailer Be Green?

We didn’t have a Wal-Mart near me growing up in the Midwest. My first real exposure to Wal-Mart came from watching the documentary Store Wars: When Wal-Mart Comes To Town. In case you haven’t seen the film, it pits the big, nasty retailer versus…
Walmart Green Reusable bags AB 298 plastic zero waste renewable energy

In Compton: Greening the Future

Following a path already traveled by the likes of Van Jones in the East Bay Area and Majora Carter in the South Bronx, Rhonda Webb of Compton has started a journey of revitalizing her community that is rooted in green infrastructure and a green econo…
Compton Creek Healthy Neighborhoods, Healthy Environment community garden

That’s Beautiful…and Disgusting!

California artist Marina DeBris transforms the trash she finds on the beach into “trashion,” wearable – and fashionable—clothes. “When I moved here 14 years ago, I was disgusted by the amount of trash on the beach,” she recalls. Eventuall…
Photos ©Rob Kalmbach

Your Bag Photo: Worth a Thousand Words

They float down the street like tumbleweeds, get stuck in trees and wrap around fence posts, flapping like tattered flags in the wind. You know what we’re talking about: Discarded plastic bags. We want to tell their story, and we need your help. Be…
plastic bags ban california pollution garbage dump waste

Buy local art to support Heal the Bay

On Sunday, July 22, Le Cellier Restaurant and Wine Bar in Marina Del Rey hosted DudaArt's "Blue Aquarium," an artist reception to benefit Heal the Bay. Twenty percent of proceeds from instore sales went to Heal the Bay.
DudaArt Blue Aquarium art proceeds benefit Heal the Bay
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