Reducing Plastic Pollution requires progress in variety of fronts, one being education. COI teaches future generations the importance of Clean Oceans and how to get there. Thank you Sara Gadelha and VPK Summer Meadow Brook Elementary School in … [Read more...]
Meadow Brook Elementary School – FL July 2018
COI Art Mural Fundraiser – Santa Cruz Jun 2018
COI/Fresh Walls Bayview Mural Fundraiser @ Olitas Clean Oceans International Art Mural fundraiser. What a great turnout for our fundraiser @Olitas Cantina & Grill to raise money for the Clean Oceans Inspired Mural from the Fresh Walls … [Read more...]
Bay View Presentation – Santa Cruz JUN 2018
In June COI volunteers Elizabeth Patron and Eliot Headley did a great job bringing awareness to plastic pollution to kids at Bay View elementary school. This was the first of this program that we would like to expand to all the schools around the … [Read more...]
Itaipu, RJ Brazil – April 2018
Third Annual Community beach Cleanup. Thank you to All the sponsors, volunteers and local communities. COI in Brazil represented by Kelly Duim is mobilizing local society in the fight against plastic pollution, bringing awareness of proper waste … [Read more...]
Community Greeting Party in Santa Cruz CA – Jan. 2018
125 people attended COI’s “Greet the Community” event on Jan 18 @Santa Cruz Yacht Club. We had PPTF demonstration with Harry and Nakajima from NAKs Japan, and presentations from students and teachers. James Cox offered to match donations up to … [Read more...]
St Julian’s Bay, Malta – Oct. 2017
" SRV Pono" is putting on some miles. Leaving South of France in the end of September we made a 750-mile dash to Malta to attend to "Our Oceans Conference". At Our Oceans Conference our Founder Jim Holm was select to participate in a panel discussion … [Read more...]
International Coastal Cleanup with Acualina – Sept. 2017
In September 2017 COI crew were honored to host Angela Corvea, our friend and founder of Acualina from Havana Cuba, to our home and office in Santa Cruz. Angela joined Professor David Schwartz and COI founder Captain Jim Holm at Cabrillo College to … [Read more...]
Itacoatiara, RJ Brazil – Abril 2017
Second Annual Community beach Cleanup. Thank you to All the sponsors and volunteers. Our second annual event was almost entirely organized and executed by Brazilian Volunteers and led by Kelly Duim acting on behalf of COI. Her efforts resulted … [Read more...]
Cabrillo Oceanography Shoreline Debris Survey Training – Winter/Spring 2017
Entering our 8th semester … [Read more...]
Cuba – January 2017
The 2017 expedition to Cuba was the 4th such adventure since summer of 2014. Some participants were generally academically inclined, two professors, one retired professor, three environmental science students from UC Santa Cruz and Berkeley and … [Read more...]