Our Q4 Newsletter is LEGENDARY.!. (and not just a Give Miami Day pitch)
What better time than the week of Give Miami Day to do a little bragging about our recent successes in 3 items below. And if
What better time than the week of Give Miami Day to do a little bragging about our recent successes in 3 items below. And if
Our good friend, Emmy award-winning journalist – Louis Aguirre – from Local 10 News did a great segment on our Corporate Days of Service and the resulting impact. I noted some of my favorite comments below the video.
Dara and I were honored to receive the Miami Dolphins “Local Legend Award” on Oct 15, 2023. Video of us on the Jumbo-tron below.
For the third year, we asked our International Coastal Cleanup Day volunteers, and the data again shows that cleanups have a powerful impact on awareness, education, and behavior.
RESULTS ARE IN for the annual county-wide International Coastal Cleanup Miami-Dade last Saturday, September 16th, 2023 where 2,929 volunteers collected 22,233 pounds of trash from
We were thrilled to receive the Florida Department of Environmental Protections ‘2023 Environmental Stewardship’ award due to our advocacy and community engagement efforts.
A small win is actually a big win. For years, a popular chain drug store in Miami Beach had a dumpster in their parking lot
Here in Miami Beach, we have spent a decade trying to eliminate cigarette butt litter in very creative and engaging ways including: We’ve produced and
100% Plastic Free Soda and Water Contract for the City of Miami Beach We single-handedly tanked a 10-year renewal of an exclusive beverage contract between
We know that we cannot clean our way out of this ocean plastic mess, but we’ve always believed that cleanups can provide an eye-opening experience
We had a great and productive day last Saturday for the 2022 International Coastal Cleanup Miami-Dade (Spearheaded globally by the Ocean Conservancy, and organized locally
Ultra Music Festival (EEG) partnered with VolunteerCleanup.Org, Debris Free Oceans, and Surfrider Foundation Miami Chapter to reduce their impact at their new home at Historic
Welcome to the Fall edition of our newsletter, chock-full of great updates including the impact summary from September’s International Coastal Cleanup Day, + Instagram Contest Winners, our
Miami Beach Single-use plastics ban! (thanks to our Activism) Looks like our August 2017 causeway cleanup with then-candidate, now Mayor Gelber made a big impact. Miami Beach has
Commissioner Ken Russell proclaims May 12, 2016 as “Henry West Lab 5th Grade Class Day” for their work in raising awareness of plastic trash in Biscayne
I did a little unplanned cleanup while on vacation at Blue Springs State Park in Florida the other day when I discovered polystyrene pieces littered
We’re not one to give up on a tough challenge, so when the Floatopia ‘organizer’ (this is an informal gathering spread via social media) contacted
Every year, a very large unsanctioned / unpermitted event called Floatopia brings 2-3,000 people with pool floats to Miami Beach as a result of a
Some companies are doing amazing things. Method Soaps is one of them. VolunteerCleanup.Org, SurfRider, and CleanUp Miami Beach recently partnered with Method Soaps to collect
I got an email out of the blue from a 5th grade teacher who heard about my work. She had been teaching her students about trash
On a personal note – many of you are aware that the kayak I use to cleanup trash from the bay was stolen, and there
In a major win for environmental activists (including myself, Michael DeFilippi, Surfrider SoFla, and Biscayne Bay Water Keepers), The City of Miami Beach has voted
When you go to a doctor complaining of chest pains, he will say you probably have clogged arteries. But he won’t know how bad it
Had a good day lobbying the City of Miami Beach with my allies Michael DeFilippi, Surfrider SoFla, and Sean ‘Birdman’ Gould (Birdmans Trash Initiative) to
Miami Beach kayaker is on mission to clean up city’s waterways and help alleviate backed-up drains Miami Herald – Front Page of B Section –
Commissioner Michael Grieco recently presented Doebler with a key to the city to thank him for bringing the issue to the city’s attention. “This is
Dave Doebler presents his findings to the Mayors Special Flood Committee that “Clogged Storm Drains Are Contributing to Street Flooding”which correlates trash from the street
NPR’s “If I Were Mayor” project : NPR asked Doebler what he would do if he was in charge of his town. Now, after the
Dave Doebler presents his Trash in the Waterways research to the Oceanfront Protection Committee (Oct 7) and Sustainability Committee (Oct 15). Doebler has been doing weekly
VolunteerCleanup.Org engages volunteers to cleanup their neighborhoods, shorelines, and waterways as a way to raise awareness about marine debris and encourage people to reduce their reliance on single-use plastics.
VolunteerCleanup.Org is a project of Miami Dade Coastal Cleanup, Inc, a 501(c)3 non-profit registered with the IRS (EIN 42-1766017)