Thank you Ed at Voice of Laguna for the interview this week. If you guys missed it, here’s a link to listen.
Thank you to the Green Organization and the team at Green Superheroes 2030! I was proud to be part of a great documentary with amazing kids saving the planet and today we received our International Green Apple Environment Awards. Watch the Green Superheroes 2030 documentary on Amazon Prime.
ORANGE COUNTY, Calif., March 3, 2026 – Cox employees across Orange County came together this year to grant a landmark $150,000 for nonprofits serving the communities where they live and work. Each of three organizations selected by a volunteer council of Cox employees – Homefront America, Project3R and a third nonprofit to announced at a later date – will receive a $50,000 grant to advance essential community programs.
Marking 30 years of Cox employees supporting local organizations through Cox Charities, this milestone celebrates helping nonprofits deliver vital services—from meeting basic needs to strengthening families.
“This year’s 30th anniversary makes this moment especially meaningful, as it reflects the unwavering commitment our employees have to the communities we serve,” said Colleen Dillaway, market vice president for Cox Communications. “Cox Charities is proud to provide $150,000 in total grants—the largest annual award in our history—to nonprofits aligned with our core giving pillars: Military & Veterans and Conservation & Sustainability.”
Since its founding in 1996, Cox Charities in the West Region has allocated more than $25 million to local communities through nonprofit grants, scholarships, and support for initiatives that enhance quality of life. Funded entirely by Cox employee contributions, 100% of every dollar is reinvested in the communities served.
The organization’s record-level giving comes at a time when nonprofit needs are rising nationwide. As donor participation and retention decline, nonprofits report increased demand for food assistance, housing support, and educational resources. Against this backdrop, Cox employees continue to step up through year-round giving and volunteerism, making it possible to deliver landmark support during this milestone year.
Cox Charities is overseen by a diverse volunteer council of employees who live and work in the communities they serve.
Thank you Pitch Labs for having me as a guest on your NXT GEN Podcast. https://open.spotify.com/episode/1S0bvMJ2NkHUdhA0FGLE4V?si=c1UAApadSJerWVSsEM_faw
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Hi everyone! We had been planning this trip for a while after watching videos about it on YouTube. Digging for trilobites in Utah at U-Dig Fossils meant driving back to Utah after landing in Colorado. It was worth the drive and it was fun. I used a lot of sunscreen and I was really dusty at the end of the day. Our host at the quarry was a guy named Cole and he was great in explaining things and being a good sport to let me video him. Basically you hit the rocks with a pick and crack them open and many of them contained fossils.We found a few with many trilobites inside and then a few big ones.
From what I read, trilobites were bottom feeders in the ocean and didn’t even have eyes. These type of fossils are among the earliest type of animal fossils found and are over 500 million years old. Crazy right?! We’re going back to Wyoming in a few weeks to dig for fish fossils again. Keep an eye on my social media and I’ll post a video of this trip and photos from Wyoming soon too.
I’m so lucky to partner with amazing companies like SUN BUM and the SC Johnson Company.
This week we did a beach clean up at Moonlight State Beach in Encinitas and it was a lot of fun. I got to speak to everyone for a few minutes at the Sun Bum HQ, we picked up 27 lbs of trash and then came back for lunch. Thank you so much to Sun Bum for the swag bag today and for all the sun screen. We’re going to put it to good use at our upcoming beach clean up events. We’re planning a few more clean ups this summer so I invite everyone to come join me.
You guys know I love cleaning up the beach each week and typically I show a photo or two of the more interesting toys I find. Every few years, I take a photo of all of them before I donate them and well, it’s about that time. This is a little over two years worth of abandoned and washed up toys I’ve found over a few hundred miles of coastline from Los Angeles down to Ensenada, Mexico.
Some are broken and some look brand new. I’ve jumped in the water to get some of these and some were completely buried in sand. All were left abandoned and I found them at the end of the day or early in the morning. These are going to be donated to kids in San Diego, California. Only once have I ever done a beach clean up and didn’t find any toys.
Ocean pollution comes in many forms and while plastic toys like these are fun, they break down into little pieces when they are left to wash out in the ocean so please remember to pick up all your toys (and trash) when you head home from the beach. Thanks!
Check out my Instagram Live for a walkthru of these toys. : https://www.instagram.com/p/DKItbI2yRZZ/
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Last weekend’s beach clean up in Ensenada with AO Latinoamérica went amazing. It was cloudy but didn’t rain so that was good. I had a great time working with all the volunteers and we picked up over 1000 lbs of trash. Thank you everyone who helped out. We had a great turnout and it was great seeing everyone! This year we brought more shirts for the volunteers and a photo backdrop (Thank you PB Backdrops). We found a lot of sand dollars and a big washed up jellyfish on the sand that was pretty interesting. I heard you can still get stung even when they are dead so I didn’t touch it.
Thank you Mares Foundation, Noche, Project3R and AO Latinoamérica of course for hosting the event. See you guys next year in Ensenada!
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