Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Clean Ocean Action coordinated beach sweeps
More than 350,000 pieces of debris were removed from New Jersey beaches in 2012, the newly-released Clean Ocean Action (COA) 2012 Beach Sweeps Report says. In April and October, 6,926 volunteers gathered at various beaches and collected the debris, which was then tabulated by COA. COA Education Program Manager Tavia Danch said the majority of the debris removed was disposable plastics. Danch said the items collected most were cigarette filters and that the number gathered increased by 47 percent over 2011's totals. However, Danch said the number of other items gathered including glass, lumber and plastic wrappers showed a decrease from 2011. Every year there unusual items found are also highlighted in the report. This year, Danch said …
Thursday, December 6, 2012
Critics chop away at fine details and what they see as conflicts in new law designed to protect trees and environment
Environmentalists Cindy Zipf and Rick Jones gently shook their heads in disapproval Tuesday night as the Rumson governing body adopted, with marginal "yes" votes, the borough’s highly contentious “tree ordinance.” The adoption was done taking comments “under advisement” to amend, in the near future, definition discrepancies, semantics and typos. Zipf, also executive director of Clean Ocean Action, and Jones, her husband, had fought for the moment a “tree ordinance” would go into effect, protecting endangered species and guarding against inordinate clear-cutting that they have argued causes flooding and rapes the environment. The Navesink Avenue couple got into a tussle with the borough last year after they alleged that trees were permitted…
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Public hearings on three ordinances at tonight's meeting; some Sandy business
There's a full agenda on tap for tonight's Rumson Borough Council meeting and public hearings for what is known as the long-debated tree ordinance and post-Sandy building and floor height ordinances top "unfinished business." The meeting starts at 7:30 p.m. at Rumson Borough Hall. The amended "Tree Protection Ordinance" is first up for public purview and comment. Tree clearing has been a subject of controversy in the borough for some time. The issue of what trees should or should not be removed, for environmental and conservation purposes, was heightened by Navesink Avenue residents Rick Jones and Cindy Zipf's tussle with the borough over a developer's clear-cutting of trees that they claimed should have never been chopped. The couple …
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Another summer has come and gone. The season was filled with characteristic days of laughter, sunshine and relaxation at the beach. While the parties have gone, the reminders of them — caps from water bottles and soda, straws from drinks, and hundreds of other bits of debris — remain behind. This Saturday, hundreds of volunteers will be hitting the state's beaches from Sandy Hook to Cape May to pick up plastics, Styrofoam, cans and much more, left behind by humans and the tides, as part of Clean Ocean Action's fall Beach Sweeps event. Clean Ocean Action is headed by longtime Rumson resident and environmentalist Cindy Zipf. Since the first sweeps in 1985, more than 90,000 volunteers have participated in the now twice-yearly event, picking …
Friday, August 17, 2012
Tour for the Shore aims to protect Jersey shoreline from industry
It hasn’t been the easiest trip she’s ever made, but for Margo Pellegrino, it’s one of the most important. “This is about my home turf,” she said, gesturing to the map of the New Jersey-New York shoreline and a stretch of the Atlantic Ocean labeled “Clean Ocean Zone.” It’s a portion of the ocean that Clean Ocean Action, the Sandy Hook-based grassroots environmental group, has been fighting for years to keep free of pollution and uses that it contends would be damaging to the environment. Now, the organization is trying to convince federal lawmakers to take the steps necessary to forever block any attempts to industrialize that portion of the ocean, including things like offshore drilling and transfer terminals for liquefied natural gas. …
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Clean Ocean Action Executive Director Cindy Zipf represents the sea and sea life in an on-going campaign to improve and maintain the quality of local waters.
Cindy Zipf has always been connected to the sea. As a child she spent her days "mucking around the Jersey Shore. I was and am a shell-a-holic," she said, "I can't help but pick them up as I walk. And as a kid, I'd turn over every rock and shell to see what was slithering around underneath." Today, as the Executive Director of Clean Ocean Action (COA), a coalition of organizations wrought to protect the waters around New Jersey and New York, the Rumson native is uncovering the good, the bad and the ugly and using data, science to bring awareness and pressure to those who would knowingly or unknowingly cause it harm. COA was formed in 1984, spun off from the American Littoral Society (ALS), then under the direction of famed sea protector …
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