Dana Point Earth/Ocean Society

2010 Annual Report

The year just ended was another busy one for the Earth/Ocean Society as we continued our goal of educating everyone we can about the need to protect our ocean and our earth.

E/OS appeared at various functions around Dana Point and manned our special booth to call attention to our goal of keeping Dana Point clean. We organized cleanup days and merged our efforts with the ZeroTrash people. We now pick up debris from our streets and beaches the first Saturday of every month.

We supported the fifth graders at R.H. Dana Elementary School and subsidized their annual weekend visit to Catalina Island. We supplied each classroom at the school with modern emergency kits, replacing their outdated ones.

E/OS joined other Southland cities in a continuing attempt to rid our streets and cities of plastic and styrofoam containers that are so devastating in polluting our ocean waters and killing thousands of sea birds and fishes.

As 2010 ended, we added three new members to our board: Keith Johannsen, Ed Conway and Joel Bishop. Ed is the past chairman of the Dana Point Chamber of Commerce. Joel is a past mayor of the City of Dana Point. We look forward to significant contributions from these three gentlemen who bring so much talent and expertise to our organization.

We want to thank you for supporting the Earth/Ocean Society, and hope you renew your membership in E/OS as we plan to make 2011 our most active and successful year so far. Help us keep our ocean and earth clean!

Sandie Howard, President

Be sure to click here and have a look at this fantastic photo album created by E/OS board member, Bob Fairbanks:

Photos from the 5th Annual Neighborhood Cleanup Day:

Our own talented shutter-bug board member Bob Fairbanks has posted a complete photo album of the day's events here:

Click here to see the full photo album:

 Also, here is a link to a great slideshow of photos from The Orange County Register:

http://www.ocregister.com/news/dana-244592-day-point.html

A clean earth and a healthy ocean. These two are directly connected, and the best thing we can do for future generations is to teach our children well. We want to help teach our children and inspire people of all ages to carefully steward the earth and the ocean.

A clean earth leads to a healthy ocean. Why? Because that's what watersheds do: they move water from the land to the ocean. Water picks up everything in its path, and carries it to the ocean. So, a clean path to the ocean means a clean ocean, and a clean ocean means a healthy earth.

Fifth graders from RH Dana Elementary School
participate in picking up trash throughout Dana Point
at the first annual Neighborhood Clean Up Day, April, 2005.

The Earth/Ocean Society creates and supports opportunities to learn about the delicate balance between the earth and the ocean through:

• Hands-on beach and watershed cleaning events
• Scholarships to fund participation in local ocean quality education programs like the world-class Ocean Institute
• Smokers outposts program
• Watershed education

Please join in the effort. Join the Dana Point Earth/Ocean Society now. Your membership funds these programs. You can also volunteer time or donate supplies to any of the programs run by this group. Please step up and join in. It's fun, uplifting and healthy. 

Top Photo by http://www.flickr.com/photos/socal921/