Programs

From testing our coastal waters to ensuring that runoff stays in your garden to reducing plastic pollution, Surfrider's programs help ensure that our marine ecosystems are protected.

South Coast MA Programs

Coming soon!

Thank you for visiting our website. We are a fairly new chapter and are still getting our feet wet. The programs outlined below are programs run across the country by Surfrider chapters and staff. As our chapter continues to build and grow, we will run many of these programs locally. As we kick off these programs, we will update this page and the rest of our website.

Beach Cleanups

A Surfrider program to tackle the ocean litter issue — primarily caused by plastic pollution — through education for action, community science, and policy campaigns. We are all part of the solution, and together we can restore our coastlines, one beach at a time.

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Beach Cleanups

A Surfrider Foundation program to tackle the ocean litter issue – primarily caused by plastic pollution - through education for action, community science, and campaigns. We are all part of the solution and together we can restore our coastlines, one beach at a time.

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Blue Water Task Force

The Surfrider Foundation's Blue Water Task Force (BWTF) is the largest volunteer-run beach water testing program in the country. Our chapters use this program to alert communities about local water quality problems and to work toward solutions — because no one should get sick from a day at the beach.

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Ocean Friendly Restaurants

The Surfrider Foundation’s Ocean Friendly Restaurants program addresses plastic pollution at its source. One restaurant, one customer at a time, it increases awareness, drives behavior change, and ultimately creates scalable impact to reduce our plastic footprint.

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Ocean Friendly Restaurants

The Surfrider Foundation’s Ocean Friendly Restaurants program tackles plastic pollution at its source. One restaurant, one customer at a time, it increases awareness, drives behavior change, and ultimately creates scalable impact to reduce our plastic footprint.

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Ocean Friendly Gardens

Ocean Friendly Gardens is Surfrider’s sustainable landscaping and education program that provides beautiful, inexpensive, and natural solutions to reduce polluted runoff and support resilient coasts.

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Ocean Friendly Hotels

Surfrider’s Ocean Friendly Hotels program helps hotels reduce single-use plastic and make more sustainable choices for the ocean. The result is a community of like-minded hotels that we can promote, support, and lift up as examples of success to influence behavior change in the hospitality industry and partner with to pass plastic reduction legislation.

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Rise Above Plastics

Rise Above Plastics is designed to eliminate the impacts of plastics in the marine environment by raising awareness about the dangers of plastic pollution and by advocating for a reduction of single-use plastics and the recycling of all plastics.

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Climate Action Program

Designed to harness the power of nature to fight the effects of climate change on our coasts — this innovative program connects volunteers to restoration projects that help protect local coastlines from erosion, sequester carbon, remove invasive species, and support local ecosystems.

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