Join I Love A Clean San Diego, Council District 9, and SDG&E for a street sweep in Chollas Creek! We will divert litter from the community and keep it from traveling to the Pacific Ocean.
Our staff will be set-up with a check-in table at Charles Stevens the Third Park. Join us at 9am to meet the Council President, grab supplies and help us clean up the neighborhood!
Charles Stevens the Third Park – 4639 Home Ave, San Diego, CA 92105
Join I Love A Clean San Diego, Council District 7, and SDG&E for a cleanup in Linda Vista! We will divert litter from the community and keep it from traveling to the Pacific Ocean.
ILACSD staff will be set-up with a check-in table at Linda Vista Park. Join us at 9am to meet the Councilmember, grab supplies and help us clean up the neighborhood!
Join I Love A Clean San Diego, Council District 5, and SDG&E for a beautification cleanup in Lake Hodges! We will divert litter from the environment and beautify the lake.
Our staff will be set-up with a check-in table at Lake Hodges in the parking lot. Join us at 9am to meet the Councilmember, grab supplies and help us clean up the lake!
Join I Love A Clean San Diego, Council District 6, and SDG&E for a street sweep in Mira Mesa! We will divert litter from the community and keep it from traveling to the Pacific Ocean.
Our staff will be set-up with a check-in table at Mesa Verde Park. Join us at 9am to grab supplies and help us clean up the neighborhood!
This event requires a signed release-of-liability waiver for all volunteers, and anyone under 18 needs a waiver signed by a guardian.
Join I Love A Clean San Diego, Council District 8, and SDG&E for a street sweep around the Memorial Park neighborhood! We will divert litter from the San Diego Bay Watershed and keep it from traveling to the Pacific Ocean.
Our staff will be set-up with a check-in table at Memorial Park. Join us at 9am to meet Councilmember Moreno, grab supplies and help us clean up the neighborhood!
This event requires a signed release-of-liability waiver for all volunteers, and anyone under 18 needs a waiver signed by a guardian.
Join I Love A Clean San Diego, Council District 4, Council District 9, and SDG&E for a street sweep in Lincoln Park! We will divert litter from the San Diego Bay Watershed and keep it from traveling to the Pacific Ocean.
This is a street sweep to complement the Dumpster Days drop-off event! While residents do a drive-through bulky item drop-off, you can help us comb through the neighborhood and pick-up litter. Our staff will be set-up with a check-in table at the Willie Henderson Sports Complex. Join us at 9am to grab supplies and help us clean up!
This event requires a signed release-of-liability waiver for all volunteers, and anyone under 18 needs a waiver signed by a guardian.
Join ILACSD, SDG&E, and the Imperial Beach City Council at our Clean Cities Initiative cleanup on August 4th from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm! Volunteers will meet at the Red House Kitchen located at 775 13th St, Imperial Beach, CA 91932. Last year, we worked with over 200 dedicated volunteers and we are excited to hold another cleanup in this important neighborhood!
We will have cleanup supplies, snacks, and water. We also provide community service hours and Letters of Appreciation for volunteers. This is a great opportunity for students and families to protect our local environment!
We encourage volunteers to bring their own reusable items such as water bottles, work gloves, and buckets to promote zero-waste practices and help us in our mission to have a zero waste, litter free and environmentally engaged San Diego region!
All volunteers are required to fill out a waiver form to participate and anyone under the age of 18 needs a waiver signed by their parent or guardian.
See you there!
For a map and directions, click HERE.
For a waiver, click HERE.
Register today!
Join ILACSD, EDCO, and the Imperial Beach City Council for another Clean Cities Initiative: Imperial Beach Cleanup. Volunteers will meet at Red House Kitchen and pick up litter around the area to preserve and enhance the local community! With help from over 123 volunteers at our last CCI cleanup, we removed 336 pounds of trash and recyclables from the local environment! Help us increase our impact by volunteering and bringing along a friend!
ILACSD will bring all the cleanup supplies and explain the impact of this cleanup on our watershed. We also provide community service hours and Letters of Appreciation for volunteers. This is a great opportunity for students and families to learn ways to protect our local environment!
We encourage volunteers to bring their own reusable items such as water bottles, work gloves, and buckets. This helps us work toward our vision of a zero waste, litter-free and environmentally engaged San Diego region!
All volunteers are required to fill out a waiver form to participate. Anyone under the age of 18 needs a waiver signed by their parent or guardian.
We will have a free succulent planting activity after the event with Little Dandelions!
We will have a free Little Dandelions Upcycle and Plant activity after the event! You’ll be able to use found containers to plant succulents and take home your new upcycled planter.
See you there!
For a map and directions, click HERE.
For the waiver, click HERE.
Register today!
SE HABLA ESPAÑOL: Si se requiere ayuda con la registración, llame a Carly Keen (619) 704-2774 o mande un email a ckeen@cleanSD.org.
The holiday season is in full swing, which often means family and friends coming together to celebrate. Hosting a holiday party can seem counter to conservation efforts at times but your efforts should be not be neglected! This is the perfect time to continue saving energy while striking conversations about why you partake in these conservation-minded behaviors. In lieu of Energy Action Month, which takes place every October, we thought we would remind our readers about the simple ways to save energy when guests are over for the holidays.
Before Guests Arrive
During Your Holiday Celebrations
After Guests Leave
Today’s blog comes from one of I Love A Clean San Diego’s most tenured staff members, Morgan Justice Black, who is saying goodbye after working at ILACSD for almost a decade. Below, she reflects on her time with the organization.
In June 2006, George W. Bush was the president, the World Cup was being played in Germany, the Disney film Cars was released, and I responded to a Craiglist posting for an unpaid internship with I Love A Clean San Diego. I’m not sure how much competition I had, but I landed the internship and my story with I Love A Clean San Diego began.
After a few months, I got lucky and my supervisor moved on. Again, somehow I landed her job and became the organization’s Volunteer & Events Coordinator at the ripe old age of 22. The best part of this gig…I was getting paid! I took the reins just in time for our biggest event of the year, the 22nd Annual Coastal Cleanup Day where I had to rub elbows with the likes of Supervisor Pam Slater Price and my childhood crush, local meteorologist Loren Nancarrow.
After a year on the job, I convinced my boss Pauline that we needed more help, so we hired someone even younger than me! Fresh out of college, Natalie arrived and became my right hand woman and still to this day Natalie and Pauline are key ingredients in the secret sauce that is ILACSD. I became the Outreach Director and tried the best I could to be involved in pretty much everything with ILACSD. I helped to orchestrate annual Halloween costume parties and earned the title of craziest office cat lady, as I fed the ever-growing pack of feral kittens. As the unofficial “jill of all trades” at ILACSD in those days, I got a lot of great experience doing a little of everything!
I learned how to maximize storage in our external storage unit, do dishes in the bathroom sink, and haggle for an office truck. I also learned the value of collaboration, and through new partnerships we began working closely with other nonprofits and companies to expand our programs.
2010 was a big year for me, and for ILACSD. We restructured and I became the Director of Development & Marketing. We also moved, saying goodbye to the office kitties, and hello to our current digs in Liberty Station. Over the years, I’ve written hundreds of grants, coordinated thousands of volunteers, been on tv too many times to count, had 5 different titles and attended 10 Coastal Cleanup Days – which just happen to always fall on my birthday weekend.
In fact, in 2013, I celebrated by 30th birthday at Coastal Cleanup Day with the ILACSD team, my family, a few elected officials and hundreds of volunteers. They actually sang happy birthday to me after Supervisor Cox announced over the microphone that it was my 30th birthday!
In addition to my “day job”, ILACSD has allowed me the flexibility to pursue my passion for volunteering in the community. With their support, I spent a number of years volunteering with the Junior League of San Diego and five years ago became a member of Women Give San Diego. I’ve been able to transfer skills from volunteering into the workplace and vis versa. And I’ve been able to fulfill my desire for constant civic engagement.
This week, after more than nine years and countless chapters, the story is coming to an end, as I say goodbye to the place that I’ve spend more time in than anywhere else in my adult life. I’ve developed many friendships, countless skills, but most importantly, I’ve grown into an adult under ILACSD’s watch. I’m sad to say goodbye, but I’m happy that ILACSD has instilled in me the confidence to go after a new opportunity in which I will continue to make San Diego a better place.
Thanks to all of you who have been a part of my journey over the last decade. It’s been quite a ride!
-MJB
