General Meeting
7-8:30 PM, Monday, February 6th, Long Beach Pizza Company, 3430 E. Broadway, Long Beach, CA.
This meeting is free to the public.
The Long Beach Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation will hold a presentation about what Surfrider is and the ongoing efforts to Sink the Breakwater. This will be followed by a screening of the new movie “Know Your H2O,” about our water cycle.
On December 4th over thirty Long Beach Surfrider volunteers gathered to celebrate their efforts to make their community a better place. Emiko Innes, Chairperson of the Chapter welcomed everyone with a slide show of the years activities and an inspirational clip from the recent TED conference which puncuated the importance of ‘movements’. Nancy Hastings, Southern California Field Organizer for the Surfrider Global said a few words of thanks after which awards were given, stories were shared and great food was enjoyed.
Huge thanks to The Local Spot at Pacific Coast Highway and Loynes for hosting the event. They are a local family with a local eatery and it was a perfect example of the community coming together for a common cause….through local efforts great global movements are born. Please consider The Local Spot as your first stop for great food and don’t forget to tell them that Surfrider sent ya!
Long Beach Water Department and the Long Beach Permaculture Guild, the event will feature information about innovative water conservation programs. Permaculture design emphasizes patterns of landscape, function, and sustainable systems that produce a high density of food and materials with minimal input.
West Basin Municipal Water District FREE Ocean Friendly Garden Workshop
Saturday, October 22, 2011 – 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
South Coast Botanic Garden
Palos Verdes Peninsula
Did most of the recent rain water run off your landscaping and into the street instead of being retained by the soil to sustain your plants? We have a solution for that!
Come to a fun and FREE Ocean Friendly Garden Workshop presented by (G3) The Green Gardens Group, Surfrider Foundation, West Basin Municipal Water District, and the South Bay Environmental Services Center.
You will learn to reduce water usage, lower your costs for watering your landscape and reduce dry-weather run-off to our oceans using the latest sustainable materials and techniques. The workshop will cover:
How to develop an aesthetically pleasing and water conserving “Ocean Friendly Garden” using native and other drought tolerant plants
Water efficient irrigation devices (such as “smart” sprinkler controllers and drip irrigation)
Permeable “hardscape” materials and on-site water retention techniques to reduce dry-weather run-off pollution to the ocean.
Preventing wet-weather runoff.
PLEASE ARRIVE 15 MINUTES EARLY FOR CHECK-IN
Saturday, October 22
10 am – 1 pm
Location:
South Coast Botanic Garden
26300 Crenshaw Blvd
Palos Verdes Peninsula
Light refreshments and snacks will be provided at the workshop
Sponsored by California Department of Water Resources, West Basin Municipal Water District, West Basin Director Ronald C. (Ron) Smith, Surfrider Foundation, and South Bay Environmental Services Center
October 1, 2011 9am-12pm at Termino Ave. Beach near Belmont Pier (One-Piece-At-A-Time Beach Cleanup)
Free Cliff Bar for all participants!
Rise Above Plastics this October and help keep plastic trash off of your coasts and waterways by participating in Surfrider Foundation’s One Foot at a Time plastic cleanup event on October 1st. Held in conjunction with Clif Bar’s Day of Action, volunteers from across the country will join together to raise awareness about the dangers of plastic pollution by removing pieces of plastic trash from our environment one square foot at a time, and then using that collected plastic to create unique mosaic sculptures.
To submit your plastic trash mosiac, simply take a picture of your square foot of trash collected and email us at OFAAT@surfrider.org for the chance to win cool prizes and help us reach our goal of removing 1,000 square feet of plastic debris from our environment. Fore more information, go to www.raptoberfest.org
Monday, October 3rd 6:30pm
Lola’s Mexican Cuisine, 2030 East 4th Street , Long Beach , CA , 90814 (map) .
The Long Beach Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation will give a short presentation about what Surfrider is and the ongoing efforts to Sink the Breakwater. This will be followed by our guest speaker, Joe Geever who will speaking about the Surfrider Foundation’s Know Your H2O program and will show a 20 minute video (details at http://www.knowyourh2o.org/.)
Mixer starts at 6:30pm, meeting starts at 7pm. This meeting is free to the public.
The mission of the Surfrider Foundation is the protection and enjoyment of oceans, waves and beaches through a powerful activist network. The Long Beach Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation will host our annual volunteer training session. This is a 2 hour workshop to provide all the background information about what the chapter is and does and how you can effectively help us in our mission.
Saturday September 24th 10am to 12 noon.
Palmer Designs, 2923 E Broadway, Long Beach, CA, 90803 (map)
This meeting is free to the public.
For more information about the meeting, call 562-481-8795 or checkout our calendar to see all our upcoming events.
In support of the single use plastic bag ban, the Long Beach Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation is giving away reusable shopping bags at two upcoming events. If you’re having a difficult time affording reusable shopping bags stop by our table and get one for free. The events are:
McBride Park Free Food Giveaway
Friday August 19, 9 am – 12 noon,
California Recreation Park
1550 Martin Luther King Junior Avenue,
Long Beach, CA 90813
Join us for The Barefoot Wine Beach Rescue Project, now in its fifth year, helps keep beaches, rivers and lakes across America “barefoot friendly.” Barefoot Wine and the Surfrider Foundation, along with community volunteers, are embarking on a tour of 20 cleanups nationwide, and one stop is in our backyard, Long Beach! Following the cleanup, volunteers 21+ are invited to attend a Surfrider-hosted celebration featuring Barefoot Wine and surf-inspired fare. RSVP at BeachRescue2011.com
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Cleanup
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Junipero Ave Beach
1 Junipero Ave.
Long Beach, CA 90803
Look for the Surfrider tent
Celebration
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Legends Sports Bar
5236 E 2nd Street
Long Beach, CA 90803
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Monday, October 3rd 6:30pm
Annual Volunteer Training
In support of the single use plastic bag ban, the Long Beach Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation is giving away reusable shopping bags at two upcoming events. If you’re having a difficult time affording reusable shopping bags stop by our table and get one for free. The events are:
