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Clean Up the Beach in #solidarity with #Heiltsuk Nation

June 8 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Join RAVEN and #Surfrider for a World Oceans Day beach cleanup, where we’ll be fundraising for Heiltsuk Nation’s legal challenge that aims to protect #marine #ecosystems from coast to coast to coast.

This year, we’re choosing to engage in #community reciprocity not just for our own local #watersheds, but as an act of solidarity with Heiltsuk Nation, whose own beach cleanup — following the Nathan E. Stewart spill — is so much more complex.

So, come out to #CloverPoint in Victoria on Sunday, June 8, 2025 from 11am-1pm for a community-powered beach cleanup. Together we are aiming to fundraise $2,000 for Heiltsuk’s legal challenge on #WorldOceansDay.

raventrust.com/event/clean-up-

Raven TrustClean Up the Beach in solidarity with Heiltsuk Nation - Raven TrustJoin RAVEN and Surfrider for a World Oceans Day beach cleanup, where we’ll be fundraising...

#CoastalCleanupDay is right around the corner - this Saturday, 9/21!

Join this global effort to clear shorelines & beaches of trash pollution 🧹

Our cleanup event is full but there are plenty of other cleanups around the #BayArea looking for volunteers -- see map below from the CA Coastal Commission:

coastal.ca.gov/publiced/ccd/cc

www.coastal.ca.govCalifornia Coastal Commission

Something I stumbled across that is making me feel better about the world:

The Flipflopi Project, which has built the first ever sailing dhow made from recycled plastic, which was at the time probably the biggest item made from recycled plastic at 9m long. Now they are almost done with the second boat, which is 24m long.

This project:
- pays locals to collect plastic waste from beaches, out of sensitive and CO2-storing mangrove forests and from households
- uses this waste and recycles it to make new materials for the boats
- experiments with using solar cookers to heat up plastic for processing
- is saving trees from having to be cut down for the boats
- works with traditional dhow builders, keeping this craft alive
- teaches students about the different stages of the project, how to sort, recycle, use plastic as well as weaving, carpentry (with wood and plastic), metalwork, traditional and high-tech machines and boat building
- sailed along the coast of east Africa and around Lake Victoria, connecting communities around the region
- raises awareness about plastic pollution, recycling, and spreads joy

youtube.com/watch?v=8mT2dQ8Og1