Earth Day Weekend Clean Up in Echo Park on April 25th!

In celebration of Earth Day, we are going to clean up Echo Park on Sunday, April 25th at 10am. We will be meeting at the corner of Sunset and Echo Park Bvld., in the Walgreens parking lot. Bring yourself, significant others, friends, pets, anybody willing to lend a helping hand!!! As always, donuts and supplies will be provided.

For a map of where to meet, click here: Map

We hope to see you there!

Silver Lake Clean Up on Sunday, October 4!

In order to get the ball rolling again on clean up efforts after an especially long, hot summer, we are going to keep it local and hold our next clean up in Silver Lake on Sunday, October 4 at 10am. We will be meeting at the corner of Sunset and Sanborn/Santa Monica, right at Sunset Junction. Bring yourself, significant others, friends, pets, anybody willing to lend a helping hand as we start off the fall clean up season!!!

As always, look for us in the green clean up t-shirts. Map below:

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Vermont/Beverly Clean Up Pictures

Sorry for the long delay in posting pictures of our clean up, but I wanted to make sure to thank everybody who came out for our Vermont/Beverly clean up!

Pictures of the event below:

Our morning clean up team at the Vermont/Beverly subway stop. It was an especially hot day, but we managed to do a good amount of cleaning!

At this point, I think people just wanted to get out of the sun....thanks to everybody who came out!
Some of the trash bags that we filled up around the intersection!

Vermont/Beverly Clean Up Sat 7/11 at 10am!

Hey all, it has been a brief period of inactivity due to the holidays and hectic work schedules, but we are back on our game now! Join us for our next clean up this Saturday, July 10 at 10am at the corner of Vermont and Beverly!

There is plenty of metered and non-metered street parking in the area, but you can also leave the car at home and take the subway to the Vermont/Beverly stop on the Red Line. You will see us in the green t-shirts on the corner by the subway stop. As always, we will have Tang's donuts for our volunteers (maybe we will even work on bringing some fruit or something as an alternative).

Everybody is welcome and we are looking forward to having a great summer event!


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East Hollywood Clean Up Wrap Up

Thanks to all of those who came out for our East Hollywood clean up. We had a great time and got some great support from the people in the area, even those people just hanging out at the Hollywood and Western subway stop! It was a lot of fun. We took very few pictures but we posted some below. Until next time, keeps those streets clean!

John is going for the high five in that picture, but nobody else is going along.

A picture of a few of our volunteers from the day.

The fruits of our effort, a truck full of trash.

Ahhh, East Hollywood, will the streets ever be clean? With our volunteers, maybe...

East Hollywood Clean Up on June 14!

Join the LA Neighborhood Clean Up Project on June 14 at 10 a.m. to help clean up the streets of East Hollywood! We will be meeting at the corner of Hollywood and Western at the Red Line Metro stop. You will be able to spot us in our green t-shirts. Everybody is welcome to come help clean up this wonderful area of Los Angeles (maybe even grab some great food afterward in Thai Town)!

Below is a map of the intersection for your convenience:


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LA County Beaches, Still a Bummer

Heal the Bay released their annual California Beach Report Card earlier today. No surprise, but LA county beaches dominated the list of Top 10 "Beach Bummers" with the worst water quality in the state.

One of our organization's primary goals is to help prevent the runoff of the interior parts of the cities from reaching our city's beaches. The release of Heal the Bay's study demonstrates why it is essential to take care of our cities and beaches. If there is a silver lining to the study, it is the following statement in Heal the Bay's press release:

"One of the reasons that Los Angeles County lags in water quality is the fact that its monitoring agencies collect samples directly in front of flowing stormdrains and creeks. Monitoring at these 'point zero' locations, where polluted runoff often pools, is the best way to ensure that health risks to swimmers are captured in water quality data."

The LAist points out that some of the beaches listed below, however, are "nowhere near storm drains," such as Avalon Beach on Catalina Island.

Top 10 Beach Bummers

1. Avalon Harbor Beach on Catalina Island (Los Angeles County)
2. Cabrillo Beach harborside (Los Angeles County)
3. Pismo Beach Pier (San Luis Obispo County)
4. Colorado Lagoon (Los Angeles County)
5. Santa Monica Municipal Pier (Los Angeles County)
6. City of Long Beach at LA River outlet (Los Angeles County)
7. Poche Beach (Orange County)
8. Surfrider Beach at Malibu Creek (Los Angeles County)
9. Campbell Cove State Park Beach (Sonoma County)
10. Doheny Beach at San Juan Creek (Orange County)

Heal the Bay's full report card available here.

April 25 Echo Park Wrap Up!

Just wanted to say a big thank you to everybody who came out to lend a hand to our Echo Park clean up this past Saturday. It was a great event and we got fantastic whether. It was wonderful to see so many familiar faces along with a number of new ones! We are glad that we have developed such a great group of people in Echo Park and we hope that some of you will join us at other events around town!

Yeah, we are putting the cutest picture first, kids helping always makes for the best pictures!


John with George from the city...he looks very happy about the shovels...very happy:



Two of our great returning volunteers, seriously Tommy we will get you a t-shirt!


Chris and Holly showing off the immense size of the city trash bags:


John is pointing at something here...not really sure what!:


Here is a picture of our unofficial mascot "Salsa"...why is that his name? "Because people like to say Salsa"...:

A picture of the trash gathered in the back of the city truck...thanks George!:

Future Clean Up Projects in Los Angeles

Do you know an area that could use a clean up? Do you want to help organize a clean up in your neighborhood or with your street? Are you looking for an office volunteer project? Or do you just want to lend a helping hand?

Feel free to let us know any time as we are always willing to help out with planning and coordinating events across the city of Los Angeles! Just feel free to e-mail at lacleanup@gmail.com

Echo Park Earth Day Clean Up April 25!

Join the LA Neighborhood Clean Up Project at 10 AM on April 25 in Echo Park for a (post) Earth Day clean up!!! We know Earth Day is actually April 22, but we thought we would make it easier on everybody to take the time to show up. We are meeting at the corner of Sunset and Echo Park Blvd, in the Walgreens parking lot. As always, we will provide donuts from Tang's!

You can sign up on our USA Service website: http://www.usaservice.org/page/event/detail/4rxyg

Check it out and sign up!

As always, you can also follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/LANCUP

Success!

We had a great day at the Koreatown clean up! It was great to see so many familiar faces and so many new ones. Special thanks goes out to the Key Club for bringing so many people to help with the clean up. This area was especially dirty and it took a lot of elbow grease but everybody should be really proud of hte efforts made today and we had a lot of community members who were really appreciative and supportive, which is what it is all about. Below are some pictures from the event!

Distributing supplies at the beginning of the event:


Distributing more supplies:


George from the city, helping out with supplies:


Are we secret agents of clean up?


Tommy came out again, he's our favorite actor/cleaner!


George likes our donuts!

John was really excited about something here:

Some of our volunteers coming back with trash:

A successful day!

Some of the trash we collected:

Koreatown Clean Up Sunday, March 29 at 10am

All, our next clean up will take us over to the edge of Koreatown! We will be meeting at the corner of 3rd and Vermont on Sunday, March 29th at 10am. As always, look for the people in the green t-shirts. We will be working with the city to provide supplies, so all you need to bring is an enthusiastic attitude and that's about it.

Sign up at our service page here


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Battery Disposal

Julia Miller, one of our board members, has been asked a couple of times about the proper disposal of batteries - if you have been to one of our events she is usually the one walking around with batteries in her hands. She passed along the following note so I figured I would share it with all of you

Hello LANCUPpers!

I had a few people ask me about battery disposal on Sunday, and I thought it might be useful to post some info on the blog about where to go to take used batteries. This webpage: http://dpw.lacounty.gov/epd/Recycling/crm.cfm, provides info on how to get the battery information, plus a lot of interesting info on recycling (like what can be recycled in LA, and what can't).

Julia

Silver Lake Clean Up March 15

Join us on Sunday, March 15 at 10 am for a clean up in Silver Lake. The clean up crew will meet on the corner of Griffith Park Blvd and Sunset Blvd in the small park located at that intersection. Just look for the people in the green t-shirts!

Click here for a link to our service sign up page!

Clean Up Schedule

Here is a calendar of those clean ups that we have scheduled for the coming month. If you are interested in helping to organize a clean up or want have a clean up in your area, feel free to e-mail us and let us know!

Sunday, March 15, 10 am in Silver Lake: Meet at the corner of Sunset Blvd and Griffith Park Blvd in the small park, free metered parking on Sunday!

Sunday, March 29, 10 am in Korea Town: Exact meeting location still to be determined, but if you have a specific area you think we should go to, let us know.

Sunday, April 12, 10 am in Eagle Rock: Currently being organized with one of our Eagle Rock members, details to follow

Sunday, April 19, 10 am in West Los Angeles: Currently being organized with one of our west side residents, details to follow.