Coastal Cleaning Day

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Zen Center joined the California-wide effort on Sep. 19th to clean up the coast. Our team of volunteers ranged from middle school kids, Dharma Youths, and adults and helped cleaned up the Guadalupe Slough, near the Water Control Plant in Sunnyvale. Many tennis balls washed up from the Bay, a chair, a bed, beer bottles, etc. It's amazing how we treat our own ocean and land.

See our pictures on flickr.




Also, this is provided by Bessie: photos from 2005 International Coastal Cleanup

http://marinedebris.noaa.gov/photos/sources.html

"Everything that happens in the ocean will affect us." --Fabian
Cousteau (Jacques Cousteau's grandson)

Every year, trash in the ocean kills more than l million seabirds and 100,000 marine turtles through ingestion and entanglement. What we do on land directly affects the oceans. If you visit the beach and ocean this summer, take a long look at the lovely sight, and think about how you can help save it. Click the above link to see a slide show of the ocean debris that we humans have
created.