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Why Your Business Should Take an Active Interest in Your Parks

YOU WANT ME TO MOVE WHERE?

by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog, Environment

These days parks across the country are underfunded. In fact, if all the local volunteers who donate their time to provide access, management, funding and maintenance suddenly quit, the parks would have to close down. In most states, parks are kept open only due to...

The Surfrider Foundation Australia Cleans Manly Beach

THROW IT “AWAY” – IT COMES RIGHT BACK

by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog, Environment

Last week we joined in on a beach clean-up on Manly Beach near Sydney, Australia. It was co-sponsored by the Manly Beach division of The Surfrider Foundation and Barefoot Wines. We have been to many beach clean ups before but, not counting Bonnie’s spontaneous and...

Park Users Should Take Out What They Take In

IT’S TIME TO TAKE OUT THE TRASH!

by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog, Environment

When Michael was a young boy, his grandfather, a former police officer in the Mission District of San Francisco, would take him to play in Dolores Park where he would summersault down its pristine green banks. Last year almost 15,000 cubic yards of garbage were...