A friend gave me a link to this blog TheDailyOcean.blogspot.com; written by Santa Monica resident Sara Bayles, her plan is to spend 20 minutes collecting trash from her local beach each day and record her efforts online for 365 non-consecutive days. At each visit, she takes a photograph of what the beach looked like that day, a photo of the trash she collected, and she also includes a photo of something beautiful.

She keeps a running tally of each day’s collection: So far, only 70 days into her project, she estimates she has collected more than 325 pounds of trash. Sara says her goal is to raise awareness, and add some inspiration to help change the world.

Sara started the project back in May and since then, has blogged her nearly daily efforts to clean up beach trash, 20 minutes at a time. Sometimes she goes alone, sometimes she collects with her husband Garen, but just this weekend she collected trash as part of 350.org’s  “Day for International Climate Action” in a giant beach cleanup project co-hosted with GreenLaGirl Siel,

Sara says her inspiration for this project came when she “realized I could treat everyday like a beach clean-up day, instead of waiting for an organization like Surfrider to host one.” She does belong to Surfrider, and says she believes membership in organizations like theirs is important, but ever since she moved closer to the beach, she “decided to do something to help protect our oceans as often as I could.” » Read more