by Marshall Brown | Sep 10, 2013 | Bay Friendly Yards, Cleaner Water, Education, Fixing Habitats
September 10th marks the launch of The Long Island Clean Water Partnership A consortium of 125 organizations (and growing), the partnership is dedicated to addressing the biggest threat facing Long Island and its future — contaminated ground water that is both...
by Marshall Brown | Sep 8, 2013 | Bay Friendly Yards, Cleaner Water, Fixing Habitats
Join The Cause and Build a Future For Long Island! Start using lawn and agricultural fertilizers that are eco-friendly, that don’t pollute our groundwater, drinking water and bays with excess nitrogen and phosphorus. The excess nitrogen has been...
by Marshall Brown | Jul 2, 2013 | Bay Friendly Yards, Cleaner Water, Featured, Fixing Habitats
The Long Island Clean Water Coalition, formed by a group of some twenty eco-non-profits and environmental research institutions large and small have come together to to address the water quality crisis now facing Long Island.  Our groundwater is polluted, and...
by Marshall Brown | Jun 13, 2013 | Bay Friendly Yards, Cleaner Water, Fixing Habitats
The ecological condition of Long Island’s ground water has reached a crisis point.  Year by year the algal blooms grow more intense and pervasive, with brown tides erasing more habitats, with contaminated waters closing more and more acres to shellfishing, and...
by Marshall Brown | Jun 11, 2013 | Bay Friendly Yards, Cleaner Water, Fixing Habitats, Shellfish
At least some of you will not be able to read this, not being registered at Newsday — the gist is, however, that we are once again facing large scale algal blooms this year, with worse perhaps to come.   Interestingly though, while so many bays are suffering,...
by John Hall | Apr 24, 2013 | Bay Friendly Yards, Cleaner Water, Fixing Habitats
Bugs that is, ladybugs. And what a message that should send. The management of the most well known mall in the nation has released more than seventy thousand ladybugs inside the mall in order to control pests on the tropical plants living there. Read: instead of using...
