The Daily Ocean

Sara Bayles

Sara Bayles, is the author of The Daily Ocean blog, which documents her experiment to see how much debris she can collect from her local beach in 365 non-consecutive days.  For 20 minutes at a time she has removed more than 450 pounds of trash from a beach in Santa Monica in just over 110 days. On The Daily Ocean, Sara exposes our dependence on single-use plastic while challenging her readers to make small shifts in their own lives.  I made contact with Sara in an attempt to try to raise awareness of the contradiction of plastic cups being given to children in restaurants with environmental messages on them!!  Check out the story here.

Sara and Siel of Green LA Girl organized The Blogger Beach Cleanup this year for 350.org‘s International Day Of Climate Action. More than 120 volunteers, 40+ bloggers, and several non-profit groups participated to make the event a success.

Sara is also the volunteer mentor for Team Marine at Santa Monica High School, an award-winning environmental science eco-action group of teens dedicated to raising awareness about the global climate, energy, and plastic pollution crises.

And that’s not all — Sara also participates in the Teach and Test Club at Santa Monica High, co-sponsored by the Surfrider Foundation and Heal the Bay. Teach and Test monitors local ocean samples for potentially harmful bacteria while mentoring middle school students through the process.

You can follow Sara on Twitter at @thedailyocean.

Wendy

Wendy Chambers lives in Golden, British Columbia, Canada. She is a self-proclaimed, full-fledged eco chick striving to provide an organic and sustainable life for her family. Wendy recycles, upcycles old furniture, uses environmentally friendly products, and eats mainly organic homegrown veggies from her own garden and eggs from her hens. She has spent the last 15 years learning and living a greener lifestyle and hopes to share her findings by creating a local green business directory. She has also recently become a representative of Miessence (ONEgroup) providing 100% natural/certified organic personal care products.