SOS News & Events
Vote Save Our Shores into the New Leaf Envirotoken Program!
Now through the end of May: PLEASE CAST YOUR VOTE ONLINE
to include Save Our Shores in New Leaf Community Market's reusable bag donation program!
- VOTE NOW Santa Cruz (Westside, Downtown & Capitola)!
- VOTE NOW Felton & Boulder Creek!
- VOTE NOW Half Moon Bay!
Your VOTE takes less than 60 seconds. But your VOTE will continually support Save Our Shores with an average $10,000 or more through New Leaf's Envirotoken donation program this year!
Join us on June 7th for a Happy Hour on Cannery Row
When: Thursday, June 7, from 5-7pm
Where: Light and Motion, 300 Cannery Row, Monterey
For our friends and ocean-advocates in Monterey County, join us for a FREE happy hour event to Kickoff the Summer of Clean Beaches and celebrate World Oceans Day together! The happy hour takes place right on the water at beautiful Cannery Row, thanks to our friends at Light and Motion. Learn how you can Take Action and support ocean conservation in your own backyard by joining forces with Save Our Shores. We'll supply the appetizers and drinks!
Save Our Shores Crowned Best Non-Profit for 2012
Thank you for voting Save Our Shores as Best Non-Profit in the Good Times Best Of Poll for 2012! We couldn't do it without the support from our incredible community - and that means all of YOU! 
From the Good Times Best Of Write-Up:
Figuring out how to tackle this “California Challenge,” as the org is calling it, won’t be easy, especially considering the fact that the state recently cut $100,000 of Save Our Shores’ funding. But, if anyone can do it, it will be the nonprofit that, with just five staff members over the course of five years, prevented 178,764 pounds of trash from entering the Monterey Bay Marine Sanctuary—that’s the equivalent of the weight of six grey whales or 620 harbor seals.
How to Beat the California Challenge and Protect your Shores
Did you hear the news? We need to reclaim $100,000 in state and federal funding that was cut from our programs for 2012. This means your favorite non-profit needs your support more than ever before! Please help!
DONATE today to keep your local beaches clean, your Sanctuary protected, and your school children education about the marine ecosystem.
ACT NOW to donate to Save YOUR Shores!
More featured news and events from SOS...
SOS In the News
4-25-2012: Watsonville bags plastic carryalls
4-21-2012: 555 Volunteers clean up 853 pounds of pollution for Earth Day
4-17-2012: A look at the Santa Cruz County ban on plastic bags on KUSP
4-7-2012: Ross Clark's Earth Matters: What does Earth Day mean to you?
3-13-2012: COVER STORY: Save Our Shores' Anti-Plastic Ambitions
2-18-2012: Cleaning Santa Cruz-area beaches a monthly chore for SOS
12-16-2011: SOS Coalition hands out thousands of reusable bags
12-13-2011: Save Our Shores holds first Bring Your Own Bag Day
10-28-2011: Laura Kasa, Saving Our Shores One Ban at a Time
10-201-2011: Bottled water prohibited by City employees
10-5-2011: 17,000 pounds of debris removed from Santa Cruz and Monterey
10-4-2011: Beach cleanup totals are in and they are ugly
9-21-2011: TV News: Capitola to discuss expanding polystyrene ban
9-17-2011: Volunteers remove garbage, debris as part of Annual Coastal Cleanup Day
9-17-2011: SOS Removes Eight Tons of Trash from Area Beaches
9-13-2011: Santa Cruz County bans plastic bags
8-23-2011: Huffington Post: Grandma, What Was Styrofoam?
8-18-2011: Environmentalists say, 'No Butts'
8-3-2011: Save Our Shores Announces Local Ocean Hero Awards
7-20-2011: Environmentalists renew push for plastic bag ban
7-4-2011: These Patriots Spent the Holiday Preventing Pollution
7-3-2011: Sea Creatures Take to Ocean Street to Remind Tourists to Save Our Shores
6-25-2011: Demonstrators link hands to protest offshore drilling
6-11-2011: How politics shaped a Sanctuary, by Dan Haifley
4-11-11: Earth Day Spirit, Santa Cruz Style
3-15-11: Pollution in the Harbor...
2-15-11: The Defender: Jackson Browne's Anti-Plastic Campaign...
Latest SOS Blog Posts
Join Save Our Shores for Otter 501 - the Film Everyone is Talking About! SOS Supporting Members receive special discount tickets
16 May 2012, 9:40 pm
Deadline May 31: Vote Save Our Shores into the Reusable Bag Envirotoken Program!
14 May 2012, 7:52 pm
Come to the Clean Beaches Bash this Sat, May 12, 5-9pm!!
9 May 2012, 8:28 pm
Styrofaom Hits Santa Cruz Beaches from 'Over the Hill'
9 May 2012, 8:20 pm
Sign up for Feel-Good Fun at The Human Race May 12th!
1 May 2012, 6:44 pm
Over 555 Volunteers Take Action for Earth Day 2012!
1 May 2012, 6:42 pm
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News from SOS
4-25-2012: SOS-Applauds-Watsonville-Plastic-Bag-Ban
4-21-2012: 555-Volunteers-Clean-up-the-earth-for-Earth-Day-2012!
4-14-2012: Announcing-Clean-Beaches-Bash-May-12
3-27-2012: SOS-brings-Earth-Day-Cleanups-to-Monterey-Bay
2-23-2012: SC-County-Bag-Ban-takes-effect-March-20
12-19-2011: SOS-recruits-2012-Sanctuary-Stewards
12-2-2011: SOS-pioneers-Bring-Your-Own-Bag-Day
10-13-2011: Dive-the-Coast-event-for-ocean-conservation
10-3-2011: Data-shows-glimpse-into-pollution
9-17-2011:_Coastal-Cleanup-Day-Stats-Santa-Cruz-County
9-13-2011: County-of-Santa-Cruz-Passes-Bag-Ban-Ordinance!
8-17-2011: Salinas-Passes-Polystyrene-Ban!
8-3-2011: SOS-announces-Toast-to-the-Coast-Ocean-Heroes
7-5-2011: July-5-beach-cleanup-results
6-9-2011: Activists-unite-for-Hands-Across-the-Sand
5-18-11: Half-Moon-Bay-approves-ban-on-polystyrene
5-3-11: SOS-celebrates-World-Oceans-Day-in-Monterey
4-27-11: Sanctuary-Advisory-Council-approves-historic-bag-ban-Resoluion
4-16-11: SOS-Volunteers-prevent-2417-pounds-of-pollution-from-entering-MBNM-Sanctuary
3-17-11: SOS-responds-to-tsunami-aftermath
2-16-11: SOS-honors-Jackson-Brown-with-Ocean-Hero-award
1-26-11: SOS-BaitTanks-decrease-cigarette-litter
1-14-11: SOS-garners-support-for-Santa-Cruz-County-bag-ban
12-15-10: SOS-announces-Central-Coast-Sanctuary-Alliance
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