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Since 2007 Marina has held large earth day events at Locke Paddon Park (190 Seaside Circle, Marina CA). Marina’s Earth Day 2023 is April 15. Please join us to celebrate our natural earth in an all-age friendly setting.
1) Every Sat. Oct. 1- Dec. 31 2022. 9am-1pm. Plant natives, manage and harvest food from raised community garden beds, spread chips, water and remove pesky caterpillars from this oak woodland restoration project. Next to Marina Library playground (190 Seaside Cir., Marina, CA). For more info contact Bruce at 831-277-7690 or bdelgado62@gmail.com
2) Every Second Sunday of the month (Nov. 13, Dec. 11, 2022) 10am-12:30pm.Volunteer community cleanup of 14.4 miles of recreation trails, RR, roads and fence lines on county lands north of Marina. 10am meet at southern junction of Lapis Rd. and Del Monte Blvd. (DMB) 1/2 mile north of Beach Rd. roundabout. Look for C4SM banner and sign-in table. Pizza served at 12pm.For more info contact Bruce at 831-277-7690 or bdelgado62@gmail.com
All supplies provided by Citizens For Sustainable Marina.
3) Every Wednesday in October from 5-7pm. Plant natives, manage and harvest food from raised community garden beds, spread chips, water and remove pesky caterpillars from this oak woodland restoration project. Next to Marina Library playground (190 Seaside Cir., Marina, CA). For more info contact Bruce at 831-277-7690 or bdelgado62@gmail.com
Earth-Friendly Households
The Union of Concerned Scientists warns that: “Global warming is already having significant and costly effects on our communities, our health, and our climate. Unless we take immediate action to reduce global warming emissions, these impacts will continue to intensify, grow ever more costly and damaging, and increasingly affect the entire planet — including you, your community, and your family.”
Every person has the power to act and, if enough people make an effort, as a community we will succeed in slowing down global warming. When there is ACTION, hope arises.
In line with CSMC’s mission of helping our communities transition to sustainable practices, we are offering a new program: Earth-Friendly Households
“If we wait for the government, it will be too late … if we act as individuals, it will be too little … If we act as communities it might just be enough.” – Rob Hopkins
The Earth-Friendly Household (EFH) program invites individual households to adopt practices of reduced consumption and to support environmentally friendly practices. Individuals share responsibility for addressing climate change (governments and industry can’t do it all); the suggested actions in the EFH program empower us all to do our part.
There are ten areas where significant actions can be taken without affecting the quality of a person’s life:
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Use Less Electricity
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Use Less Natural Gas
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Use Less Gasoline
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Use Much Less Plastic
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Use Less Water
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Reduce Food Waste
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Reduce Acquisition of New Items
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Mindfully Recycle and Properly Dispose of Food Waste and Yard Waste
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Grow Some Food and Improve the Soil
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Make a Positive Difference Beyond One’s Household
“There is something that you can do, right now, right in your home.”
How to Become an Earth-Friendly Household
Download and print the Earth-Friendly Households Checklist
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Study the Action Items on the checklist. Some are small, practical projects and others are actions that you can take every day. We intentionally excluded the big, one-time projects such as installing solar panels as we want you to focus on practical actions.
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Check the boxes of the Action Items that you are currently doing. Then plan to commit to start doing others right now. Keep count of how many you achieve!
If you are living in an Earth-Friendly Household, you can make a statement by flying an earth flag. You could make your own earth flag from sustainable material like cotton. Be creative!
Sustaining Your Earth-Friendly Household
Living in an Earth-Friendly Household is about you making a commitment to change some habits in the areas that you select.
An effective way to change habits is to be part of a like-minded group of friends and neighbors. You can choose a means of communication to:
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Share what you are doing
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Hear about what others are doing
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Search for solutions to problems
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Feel a sense of accountability without judging others
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Be part of a community committed to talking action to move to sustainable living
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Start an Earth-Friendly Households Group
For more information please email: earthfriendlymarina@gmail.com
Past Events
Adopt-A Road Cleanup
Thank you to the 6 volunteers who showed up to our community cleanup event Sun Oct 16, 2022 10:30am at Marsan Ct/Salinas Ave Marina CA next to Reservation Rd. An area of coast live oak woodland and Maritime Chaparral. Pizza was enjoyed at 1pm. Thanks to Pat Grant for delivering the pizza.
Adopt-A Road Cleanup
Thank you to today’s (Sun. Oct 9, 2022) experienced group of volunteers
(R-L Steve, Paul, Karen, Troy, Jim, and Marina) for their community cleanup along Del Monte Blvd and Lapis Rd. Next scheduled cleanups are Sundays Nov 13 and Dec 11.
Please join us and we’ll clean up even more areas!
Thank you Pat for the pizza and Randy for truck services and taking the above photo.
Adopt-A Road Cleanup
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- Trash & Volunteers
C4SM would like to thank the eleven volunteers for another productive volunteer clean-up September 14th. These hearty souls thoroughly cleaned most of the 2.2 miles of Lapis Rd. and both sides of Del Monte Blvd. (from near Charlie Benson Lane approach to the regional landfill to Beach Rd. Roundabout in Marina.). Its great to feel the satisfaction of seeing this area respected. It wasn’t long ago this area looked like an open-air dump along Lapis Rd. and a dirty, neglected. Del Monte Blvd. And its great to do this project with all of you bringing your positive can-do spirit to work together. Thank you everyone for your support to keep this area clean.
IN THE NEWS
MARINA – Two CSU Monterey Bay students have taken their talents and intellect to blank surfaces, artistically depicting endangered species throughout a park in Marina, in an effort to call attention to the animals’ plight. Rachel Rye and Anthony Miller, working with Save The Whales as their community service partner, recently completed their project of transforming 10 concrete trash cans throughout Locke-Paddon Park with visages of five species in need of protection. The organization and the city of Marina are proud to announce the completion of the endangered species art project and invite the public to view the work by the two university students.
“I have always enjoyed drawing and all kinds of art,” said Rye. “My family has been very supportive of my artistic endeavors throughout my childhood and even now. I have memories of going to my grandparents’ house and finger painting.” Rye said that many Christmas and birthday gifts were art supplies and her first art classes were at West Valley College in Saratoga which inspired her to seriously pursue art in the last couple of years. “It was great to be able to do something visible, and to bring awareness to endangered and local marine species,” said Rye. “I’m so glad people are enjoying the work Anthony and I did in the park.” Miller is a Marine Science Major and is expecting to graduate in 2021. “Coloring books with my mom are some of my earliest memories, but I started doing art on my own when I was 7,” said Miller. “Hearing about the vaquita from Save The Whales and the other endangered animals inspired me to work my style on new subjects. It was nice to do something different.” The endangered species include the vaquita porpoise, sea otter, snowy plover, monarch butterfly and Smith’s butterfly. The vaquita is the most endangered marine mammal in the world with only 12 remaining in the Upper Gulf of California, Baja, Mexico, and was a must to be included. “Anthony’s and Rachel’s artwork on the 10 bin locations in the park is beautiful and helps us all appreciate the nature around us,” said Bruce Delgado, Marina mayor. “What a wonderful addition to our community.”
Delgado planted the seed for the project and participated by adding the clear-coat sealing of the artwork. “This artwork combines the unique talents of Rachel Rye and Anthony Miller and depicts how art and science can bring awareness to species that need protection and support,” said Maris Sidenstecker, Save The Whales co-founder and executive director. Sidenstecker said the city’s maintenance crew, the mayor, fellow students who helped prep the receptacle surfaces, and Miller and Rye, all deserve a big thanks. The two CSUMB students will be recognized at a Marina City Council meeting in September.
July 28, 2018 – Community clean-up at the southern jct. of Lapis Rd. and Del Monte Blvd (DMB).
When the volunteers were finished, the road was as clean as it had been in decades thanks to dedicated effort by people like you to keep it that way. We extended special thanks to MoCo Public Works staff such as Shawn Atkins and Marina resident Mike Owen leading the volunteer Adopt A Road Program as well as the following entities for picking up dumped items on an almost weekly basis:
- Monterey Regional Waste Management District
- Sandhill Ranch
- GreenWaste Recovery
- Monterey County Public Works
- City of Marina
We also did small litter pickup along Del Monte Blvd and Lapis Rd.
July 28, 2018 – Marina High School sunset gardening session
We spread 5 cu yards of mulch chips (donated by MRWMD and delivered pro bono by GreenWaste Recovery), watered the front slope garden, and cleaned sand off walkways.
July 31, 2018 – Oak Woodland Restoration Project Marina Library Sunset Gardening Session
We watered and spread chips at this volunteer native plant and oak woodland restoration project just south of the front Marina Library playground. We appreciated everyone’s support in keeping our northern area of town clean and helping beautify Marina High School, and Locke Paddon Park.
