Conserve and Protect Our Beaches- Vote For Explore Ecology Now
Explore Ecology has been selected as a featured charity partner on CharitySub.org. They are raising money from their community of online donors in June to help educate children about watersheds and pollution.
Chemicals and fertilizers from agriculture, industrial waste, garbage and raw sewage that make it to the ocean can have significant effects on water quality. You can help save our beaches by supporting our efforts to educate children throughout Santa Barbara County. On our field trips and in our classes we teach kids how to stop marine debris from entering our waterways. We show them how everything is connected and how they can have a direct impact on their local creek and beach water quality by picking up litter, choosing reusable over disposable products and using nontoxic gardening and soil amendments.
Along with CharitySub, we have a great opportunity to grow our impact and currently have 30% of their community’s selections. We would love your support to make that number grow.
You can sign up here and cast your vote for us by June 30th, Please help us spread the word to family and friends!
Thanks so much for your continued support.
Josh was born and raised in Santa Barbara, where his passion and curiosity for the environment began and has continued to grow. During his undergraduate studies, Josh pursued this interest at the University of California at Santa Cruz, receiving a Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Studies.
Melissa Dodos developed her passion for creative reuse as a mother of four and elementary educator over the past 25 years. She loves to inspire creativity by connecting people with resources and ideas.
Veronica grew up in San Diego and spent four years in San Luis Obispo studying Animal Science at Cal Poly. As an undergrad she learned lots about livestock, agriculture, and wildlife.
Stephanie began her journey as an educator over twenty years ago working as a preschool teacher in Washington state for a cooperative preschool program affiliated with Whatcom Community College. She loved observing the wonder and curiosity of the children and bringing them out into nature to explore the natural world. She continued her love for learning and got her teaching license and then her Montessori certification and worked as an elementary teacher in Tribal, Public, and Montessori schools. She collaborated to create a school garden and her students loved it so much that it became a special place where they could garden, read, explore, play, and it provided a safe sanctuary for students to calm down and reset when they were having difficult moments.
Morgan’s mermaid soul is always seeking adventure—swimming a relay across the Santa Barbara Channel and taking the first photo of a newborn orca off Anacapa Island being standout experiences close to home.
Lindsay Johnson