Long before plastic made life convenient and disposable, people carefully crafted the things they needed by hand.

By Vicki Patterson Rediscovering Dana Point Through Community, Culture and Care for the Places We Love “In the end we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.”— Baba Dioum That quote has stayed with me for years, but while planning this year’s Dana Point Citywide Scavenger Hunt, it began to take on an even deeper meaning. I grew up in Dana Point when it was still a small coastal town with only a few thousand people....

The stretch from right after Thanksgiving through Christmas feels magical…But for our planet (and our oceans), it’s also the most wasteful time of year! Between extra shopping, shipping, cooking, decorating and partying, our trash cans overflow and a lot of that waste is plastic and packaging that sticks around far longer than our holiday cheer. Let’s pull back the curtain on what really happens to all that “holiday joy”… and then walk through simple, feel-good ways your family can cut...