Sea Hugger

Sea Hugger has a variety of programs focused on helping people live a more sustainable lifestyle and be good stewards of our most precious resource - our oceans!

• Education Program: We visit Coastside schools, read The Littlest Sea Hugger book, and host field trips; we sponsor two scholarships to HMBHS students majoring in environmental or ocean studies; and we provide free educational resources online to teach the youth about our delicate marine ecosystem, sea creatures, and how we can protect them.
• Beach Cleanup and Cigarette Butt Bin Programs: We keep our beaches, harbor, and streets clean of trash and toxic cigarette butts at our community and Team Building beach cleanups and through our cigarette butt receptacles that are placed throughout the harbor.
• Outreach Program: We help local businesses comply with the San Mateo County Disposable Foodware Ordinance helping create a circular economy on the Coastside, and we provide an online store hosting a variety of sustainable, plastic-free merchandise to help kickstart your reusable lifestyle and ditch single-use plastic.
• Micro-Grant Program: We support Little4Tokens in South Africa and Trash4Tokens in Mexico as they incentivize their communities to clean their neighborhoods by giving them a token for each bag of trash that they can exchange for food and household goods.
• Advocacy Program: We promote conservation laws at the local, State, and National level; and share actions we can all take to reduce our footprint.

Testimonials

"Sea Hugger works with my son's school in El Granada, teaching kids environmental responsibility, particularly when it comes to keeping our local beaches clean. I've seen significant changes in my son's attitude toward the beach! He loves to clean up and proactively cleans the beach himself whenever we go and spreads the word to his friends. I love to see him incorporating a sense of social responsibility at the young age of 6!" - Matt R.