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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. If you’re interested check out this article on the LB Post.
Saturday, October 22, 2011 – 10:00 am – 1:00 pm 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 Saturday, October 22 Light refreshments and snacks will be provided at the workshop Plenty of free parking FLYER – Share with your family and friends Click Here to Register for This Event 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 Recently the breakwall and local water quality has gotten some attention in the newspaper. Looks like we had a great summer for swimming with water quality near the beaches and bay getting grades of A and A+. Recently as of May some areas were listed by Heal the Bay as ”beach bummers,” which denotes worst in the state. Hopefully these clean water reports will continue to hold. Read the stories directly at the Press Telegrams website here and here. Also an interesting story of where the surfboard rentals ended up after the Breakwall was constructed. Pretty sad to read where all those boards ended up. Check it out here. Have a good weekend and enjoy the water.
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
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. For more information about the meeting, call 562-252-6173.
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. For more information about the meeting, call 562-481-8795 or checkout our calendar to see all our upcoming events.
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 Food 4 Less
Saturday August 20, 10am – 12 noon,
6700 Cherry Ave.,
Long Beach, CA 90805
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 Celebration This event is Free and open to the public! RSVP at BeachRescue2011.com Long Beach Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation General Meeting
7PM, Monday, August 1st
Lola’s Mexican Cuisine 2030 East 4th Street Long Beach, CA, 90814.
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 speakers: Phil Friess and Chuck Demke from the Los Angeles County Sanitation District. They’re seeking input on the Carson Ocean Outfall Planning (details at http://www.lacsd.org/
This meeting is free to the public. Street parking is free, parking lot at the corner of Cherry Ave. and 4th St. is only 50 cents/hour. For more on Lola’s see http://www.
Join Surfrider Long Beach on a Lawn Patrol (neighborhood walk) Date – Sunday, August 14, 10am-12noon Weʼll walk the neighborhood, using OFG Sign Criteria to see who has OFG elements. Weʼll leave behind a flyer for those close to being OFG and see if they want help. Come join the tour, or let us know if you would like us to stop at your yard and provide tips for your landscape!
RSVP to: LBS.OFG@live.com (let us know if you want us to stop at your yard) Bring: water, sunscreen, clipboard and pen or pencil Volunteer with Long Beach Surfrider to educate online and at events as well as create more OFGs – LBS.OFG@live.com. OFG Sign Criteria, Sign Ordering, Online OFG Tracker and more at www.oceanfriendlygardens.org. |
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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:
