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Turning the Tide on Styrofoam: Heal the Ocean and MarBorg Industries Expand Regional EPS Recycling Program
A locally driven initiative is giving new life to one of the Central Coast’s most problematic pollutants: Expanded Polystyrene (EPS), commonly known as Styrofoam. Today, Heal the Ocean and MarBorg Industries announced an expansion of their EPS recycling program, now…
Heal the Ocean Announces Karina Johnston as New Executive Director
Heal the Ocean is thrilled to announce the selection of local environmental scientist and ecologist, Karina Johnston, as its next Executive Director. Johnston brings more than 16 years of leadership in coastal environmental science and nonprofit management, along with a…
Heal the Ocean Helps Clean Up Encampments
When Heal the Ocean (HTO) received a report of a homeless encampment at Butterfly Beach, we sent Andrew Velikanje of Earthcomb to investigate. What Andrew found was an abandoned disarray of scattered tents, sleeping bags, debris, and garbage buried in…
Earthcomb Cleans Up After Fiesta Events
Bravo to Andrew Velikanje and his Earthcomb crew, who came to a last-minute call on Friday from Heal the Ocean for help during the past three days of Fiesta. They were out there every day scraping up confetti and other…
Summerland Oil Mitigation Study Starts with the Sky!
With $500,000 awarded to Heal the Ocean by State Assemblymember Monique Límon and an additional $105,000 donated from the Mericos Foundation, Heal the Ocean has kicked off the New Year with a grand start to its Summerland Oil Mitigation Study…
Op-Ed: Heal the Ocean Responds to Ring Net Removal
Regarding the “Ring Nets” installed in the canyons above Montecito in response to the disastrous mudslide of January 9, 2018: As the Executive Director of an environmental organization in Santa Barbara, I joined the Board of The Project for Resilient…
Treadwell 1&5 Capped, HTO Geology Study Underway
The abandonment (capping) of Treadwell 1 and 5 was completed on September 1.
Tarball Cleanup on Santa Barbara Beaches
From Hope Ranch to Rincon, black, thick tarballs are spread out, to the chagrin of beachgoers who get it stuck on feet, shoes - and worse, in the paws of their dogs