Videos

Heal the Ocean’s Executive Director Hillary Hauser explains the mission of Santa Barbara’s non-profit ocean protector and how YOU can help.

Video by Peck Euwer, Swell Pictures, Inc.

A grassroots video about the importance of caring for our oceans.

Across the globe, people are joining together to protect the areas they love. They are cleaning up their beaches and forcing polluters to stop. Heal the Ocean, a Santa Barbara based non-profit organization, is leading the way toward cleaner ocean water by working to improve wastewater infrastructure such as sewers and septic systems. Their team includes engineers, lawyers, scientists and university laboratories to help locate sources of pollution, assess their significance and find solutions. Their work is a response to a groundswell of public opinion and suport from people who believe that clean oceans are a birthright for everyone. This short film is a tribute to these everyday, motivated, supportive people.

HTO divers filmed the Goleta Sanitary District outfall in 2002 to use in Regional Water Quality Control Board hearings to overturn the 301(h) waiver allowing GSD to continue discharging wastewater not treated to full secondary levels as required by the Clean Water Act. HTO won its case in January 2004.

Enjoy a slideshow of over 100 photos of the 2009 Heal the Ocean Benefit Concert.

This event featured guest speakers Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jean-Michel Cousteau & Hillary Hauser. Fine artist Matthew McAvene provided us his Fabulous Fish Puppet Show.

Oniric Records produced the music portion of the night, featuring Culver City Dub Collective and The Black Seeds who played until The Coral Casino in Santa Barbara kicked us out.

Watch the Video for the creation of Matthew McAvene’s Big & Fabulous Fish Show.

Last September, HTO held their annual Heal The Ocean Benefit Concert, and they called on Oniric Records, and Matthew McAvene (McAvene Art) to produce the festivities. The event was held at the Coral Casino Club at The Biltmore Hotel in Montecito. Matthew McAvene created a visual, musical extravaganza featuring the most spectacular part of the night, “Matthew McAvene’s Big & Fabulous Fish Show.”

You can also get the song “Fish” on iTunes http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/shadowland-ep/id265872395

Michael Franti and Spearhead
YELL FIRE! Tour
Solutions for Dreamers Festival 2007
a benefit for Heal The Ocean
Arlington Theatre, Santa Barbara CA
2-24-2007

Enjoy beautiful and uplifting ocean footage and people enjoying our planet.

View the film (55 min.) that has won The Worst Eco-Film of the Year Award! In our early days HTO was very involved in an effort to halt the expansion of the Tajiguas Landfill on the Gaviota Coast (it expanded). This film represents some of our more desperate means of action, and has become a “camp classic.” HTO has greatly upgraded our sampling methods since this time, and also how we do our environmental work…But this film is a great, funny memory to us, and we hope you have fun watching!

View the film (55 min.) that has won The Worst Eco-Film of the Year Award! In our early days HTO was very involved in an effort to halt the expansion of the Tajiguas Landfill on the Gaviota Coast (it expanded). This film represents some of our more desperate means of action, and has become a “camp classic.” HTO has greatly upgraded our sampling methods since this time, and also how we do our environmental work…But this film is a great, funny memory to us, and we hope you have fun watching!

View the film (55 min.) that has won The Worst Eco-Film of the Year Award! In our early days HTO was very involved in an effort to halt the expansion of the Tajiguas Landfill on the Gaviota Coast (it expanded). This film represents some of our more desperate means of action, and has become a “camp classic.” HTO has greatly upgraded our sampling methods since this time, and also how we do our environmental work…But this film is a great, funny memory to us, and we hope you have fun watching!

View the film (55 min.) that has won The Worst Eco-Film of the Year Award! In our early days HTO was very involved in an effort to halt the expansion of the Tajiguas Landfill on the Gaviota Coast (it expanded). This film represents some of our more desperate means of action, and has become a “camp classic.” HTO has greatly upgraded our sampling methods since this time, and also how we do our environmental work…But this film is a great, funny memory to us, and we hope you have fun watching!

View the film (55 min.) that has won The Worst Eco-Film of the Year Award! In our early days HTO was very involved in an effort to halt the expansion of the Tajiguas Landfill on the Gaviota Coast (it expanded). This film represents some of our more desperate means of action, and has become a “camp classic.” HTO has greatly upgraded our sampling methods since this time, and also how we do our environmental work…But this film is a great, funny memory to us, and we hope you have fun watching!

View the film (55 min.) that has won The Worst Eco-Film of the Year Award! In our early days HTO was very involved in an effort to halt the expansion of the Tajiguas Landfill on the Gaviota Coast (it expanded). This film represents some of our more desperate means of action, and has become a “camp classic.” HTO has greatly upgraded our sampling methods since this time, and also how we do our environmental work…But this film is a great, funny memory to us, and we hope you have fun watching!

View the film (55 min.) that has won The Worst Eco-Film of the Year Award! In our early days HTO was very involved in an effort to halt the expansion of the Tajiguas Landfill on the Gaviota Coast (it expanded). This film represents some of our more desperate means of action, and has become a “camp classic.” HTO has greatly upgraded our sampling methods since this time, and also how we do our environmental work…But this film is a great, funny memory to us, and we hope you have fun watching!

View the film (55 min.) that has won The Worst Eco-Film of the Year Award! In our early days HTO was very involved in an effort to halt the expansion of the Tajiguas Landfill on the Gaviota Coast (it expanded). This film represents some of our more desperate means of action, and has become a “camp classic.” HTO has greatly upgraded our sampling methods since this time, and also how we do our environmental work…But this film is a great, funny memory to us, and we hope you have fun watching!