Blog
August 27, 2020
Trash picked up anywhere can help clean beaches everywhere
Trash picked up anywhere can help us have cleaner beaches and lakes everywhere. While the journey of a piece of trash can be as short as a few feet – […]
Blog
May 28, 2020
New Adopt-a-Beach Website Is Live!
We’re excited to share our new Adopt-a-Beach website with you! Visit adopt.greatlakes.org to check it out. The new website will make hosting Adopt-a-Beach events much easier. It also makes it super […]
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March 18, 2020
Adopt-a-Beach Cleanups Suspended Until Early May
At the Alliance for the Great Lakes, our volunteers’ safety is our top priority. We have been monitoring developments with the COVID-19 virus and have made the decision to suspend […]
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February 25, 2020
Alliance Announces Exciting Updates to Adopt-a-Beach Website
While it’s been too cold for Adopt-a-Beach, we’ve been cooking up some big things here at the Alliance. We’re happy to share that this year, we are launching a new […]
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November 18, 2019
Adopt-a-Beach 2019
Our Adopt-a-Beach volunteers put in some serious work during the 2019 Adopt-a-Beach season. We had volunteers cleaning on all five Great Lakes in all eight Great Lakes states. And across […]
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September 23, 2019
Celebrating September Adopt-a-Beach
From Duluth, Minnesota to Rochester, New York—Parrotheads to university students—September Adopt-a-Beach brought together a large community of people who love the Great Lakes. September Adopt-a-Beach, part of the International Coastal […]
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June 4, 2019
Fourth Graders Take on 57th Street Beach in Chicago
This Earth Day, fourth graders at University of Chicago Lab School took on cleanup efforts at 57th Street Beach in Hyde Park. Nearly 100 Lab students are becoming Adopt-a-Beach volunteers […]
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May 10, 2019
Eco Evie and the Girl Scouts Clean Up Milwaukee’s Bradford Beach
When we plan open-invitation Adopt-a-Beach cleanups, we don’t always know what we’re to get. We can’t control the weather, we don’t know what we’ll find on the beach, and we […]
Press Release
April 9, 2019
Adopt-a-Beach Program Springs into Action for 2019 Beach Season
Tuesday, April 9, 2019 (Chicago) – As spring finally begins to appear around the Great Lakes, volunteers are heading out to beaches for a spring cleaning. The Alliance for the […]
ADOPT-A-BEACH TEAM OF THE WEEK
October 11, 2018
Michigan Students Make an Impact Beyond the Beach
Christine Webster makes it her mission to inspire the next generation of eco-conscious citizens. An Adopt-a-Beach team leader and science instructor of 28 years, Webster also sponsors Hudsonville High School’s […]