This is your opportunity to celebrate the holidays with Heal the Ocean in this exciting new venture by Letter Perfect in an exciting new venue in Summerland! View the paintings (what a gift for that Special Someone in your Life!), and see the wonderful gift items Letter Perfect are known for!
Giving Tuesday
Giving Tuesday is a national day to celebrate gratitude and giving back – and Heal the Ocean sends our deep thanks to all those who choose us to support. Your gifts, love, and donations keep us moving forward in our work for a clean ocean and unsoiled groundwater.The coming year will be filled with significant, newsworthy successes. . .
NOVEMBER 2018 E-LETTER
TONIGHT AT 9PM ON PBS! Watch Julia Louis-Dreyfus Receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor (link provided here)!
SB Shellfish Company Supports HTO
Tavarua, Fiji--a trip of a lifetime!
Hillary Hauser's Santa Book for sale now-- a portion of proceeds benefits HTO!
HTO Event 2018 Photos are Here -- check out our Facebook page!
Happy Thanksgiving to all!
ONE WEEK VACATION FOR 2 ON TAVARUA ISLAND, FIJI!
Heal the Ocean's 20th Anniversary Celebration 2018 was a sold-out, smashing success! Our Live Auction was Really Alive...and our Auctioneer Rick Werner got some lively bidding going. The great news is that the dear HTO supporters who were the high bidders for the “One Week Vacation on the Beautiful Island of Tavarua, Fiji” auction package have graciously let us keep their $6,000 bid while turning the trip back to us to be resold!
Heal the Ocean's 20th Anniversary In the News
The following is from KEYT-3 by John Palminteri
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - The ocean and water watchdog group Heal the Ocean celebrated its 20th anniversary over the weekend.
The event at the El Paseo restaurant featured videos, auction items and tributes. Among those honored were retiring Santa Barbara County Fire Chief Eric Petersen and Retired City Fire Chief Pat McElroy.
Heal the Ocean has spoken out strongly about efforts to clean up and cap leaking oil wells along the Summerland coastline that have polluted the waters there. . .
JACK AND JULIA BRING GREAT LAUGHS AND MUSIC TO WASHINGTON, D.C.!
On Saturday, October 20, 2018, Julia Louis-Dreyfus won the most prestigious award in comedy, the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, at the Kennedy Center, Washington DC. This huge event was attended by pals and co-stars – including our beloved rock music magician Jack Johnson singing “Better Together” on stage.
October 2018 E-Letter #2
October 2018 E-Letter
HEAL THE OCEAN RELEASES STUDY OF COASTAL WASTEWATER DISCHARGES
Heal the Ocean is proud to release The Inventory of Municipal Wastewater Discharges to California Coastal Water Bodies, an online interactive studythat documents the 417 billion gallons of treated municipal wastewater discharged at fifty-seven coastal locations in the 2015 calendar year.
The study, led by project manager James Hawkins, MPP, involved a multiyear effort to collect, review, and analyze publicly available data to determine the total volume of treated municipal effluent discharged to California’s coastal water bodies. . .
August 2018 E-Letter
The long-held tradition of smashing someone's head with an empty eggshell filled with confetti (cascarone) has always been a hoot - and a big part of Santa Barbara's annual Fiesta. The tradition was great fun until the confetti became plastic or metallic/mylar - which does not degrade, but instead goes down the storm drain and into the ocean, where fish eat it. Several years ago Heal the Ocean took up the issue with the City of Santa Barbara Creeks Division, and we were successful in getting the city to contract for the covering of storm drains during Fiesta and Summer Solstice. . .
July 2018 E-Letter Special Edition: Heal the Ocean Gets City Styrofoam Ban Tightened at City Council
IT WAS A GREAT DAY IN CITY COUNCIL ON TUESDAY. The Council voted to restrict plastic straws - after a heart-warming plea from beautiful children as well as heartfelt requests from physically challenged members of the community who told the Council they needed straws to have access to food/drink like everyone else…(the plastic straw regulation includes provisions for physically challenged people to have access to straws). HTO told Council that while we really wanted a total ban, we support the “ask-only” regulation because such regulation is said to reduce straw use by 80% or even 90%. . .
Heal the Ocean Takes on Styrofoam and Straws
On Tuesday, July 17, 2018, the Santa Barbara City Council will vote on two Ordinances (styrofoam and plastic straws) important to all who love the ocean and the creatures that live in the ocean:
To ban the sale or use of Styrofoam in the city, and
To restrict ("ask only") on single use straws and plastic cutlery.
Heal the Ocean asks you to please come to the City Council meeting, which begins at 2 p.m. to urge the Council to ban Styrofoam and restrict straws. . .
June 2018 E-Letter
City Ordinance Committee Moves to Ban Styrofoam and Possibly Put a Dent in Plastic Straws
State Lands Commission Moving Forward with Next 3 Summerland Wells
Regional Board to get Update on HTO/RWQCB Groundwater Assessment
HTO’s Alison Thompson Received 2018 McGinnes Environmental Law and Advocacy Scholarship
Heal the Ocean’s Trio of Upcoming Events
Dogs of the Month: Boss and Maggie!
World Oceans Day 2018 E-Letter
Friday, June 8, is World Oceans Day! Designated in 2008 by the United Nations as a day to celebrate, protect, and honor the great big blue ocean we all love (and need to sustain life on earth). We can all get involved - very easily - because this year's theme is plastic pollution. Right now you can do the following. . .
May 2018 E-Letter
April 2018 E-Letter
March 2018 E-Letter
AT LAST! BECKER WELL IS BEING CAPPED!
Summerland Beach was a scene of great joy this morning (Monday, February 26, 2018), as the barge from Curtin Maritime, Long Beach, arrived to the coastline and positioned itself to lower the construction equipment to cap the infamous leaking Becker Well. Heal the Ocean was there to confer with State Lands Commission officials, who were watching the operation from Lookout Park, and to discuss future operations to follow on the other offshore/underwater wells. . .
Becker Well Project Going Forward Next Week!
Heal the Ocean just heard from the contractors who are capping the infamous leaking Becker Well on Summerland Beach that the project is going forward! The InterAct barge will arrive off Summerland Beach on Monday, February 26, 2018 - next week - and the operation will begin!
It is estimated that the capping project will take 3 to 4 days to accomplish. Heal the Ocean will be there to cheer on the oil field workers, to celebrate with champagne this very important project to clean the ocean off Summerland, and we thank the State Lands Commission officials for listening to all our pleadings to get this most important work done.
