February 2018

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Feb

Mar 10: Community Beach Cleanup – National Water Dance

Join Miami Waterkeeper and our friends at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Biscayne Nature Center for a clean up of Crandon Park Beach. This volunteer event will be followed by a National Water Dance event — highlighting Miami’s water quality issues through spoken, visual, and performance art. Free art workshops will be available — and Miami Waterkeeper will be there providing

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Feb

March 10: Bill Baggs State Park Monthly Beach Cleanup

Come on out and join Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park and Friends of Cape Florida, Inc. for their Monthly Beach Cleanup from 9 am – 11 am.  Please wear closed toe shoes and a hat and bring along sunscreen, insect repellant,  and a water bottle.  Trash bags, plastic gloves and trash grabbers and iced tap water to refill your water

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24
Feb

March 10: Volunteer EcoAction Day at Crandon Park

Connect with nature and get down and dirty at one of Miami EcoAdventures and Miami-Dade Parks monthly volunteer days! Join their naturalists in restoring the park and its natural areas with projects that include weed/invasive exotic vegetation removal, planting, mulching, and garbage clean-up. This program meets at the park Nature Center; please bring comfortable closed-toe shoes, insect repellent, work gloves,

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23
Feb

March 2: Pre ArtSea 2018 Beach Park Cleanup

The Big Blue & You is hosting ArtSea, it’s annual festival, at the Historic Virginia Key Beach Park on Saturday, March 3rd. A beach cleanup will occur the Friday before as preparation for the event. Big Blue & You needs the park to be as free from plastic pollution as possible to really stress the use of reusable straws, utensils,

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22
Feb

Volunteer at Lotus House

Lotus Village Volunteer Opportunities Lotus House is ready to begin programming at the new Lotus Village and they need YOU! Follow this link to see some of the programs they have come up with. They have the spaces, they just need you and your ideas! Lotus House relies on volunteers to come up with activities for their residents, and would

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Feb

Feb 27-Mar 2 and Mar 6-Mar 9: Wellness In The Schools Labs at Key Biscayne K-8

WITS Labs are getting ready to start up again! This is the most popular component of the WITS program and Wellness In The Schools is so excited to be putting them on! WITS needs assistance in setting up the classroom before each class, helping the students read recipes, measuring and cutting during class, and cleaning up between classes. They could

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