Category: Education
Video and Social Media as A Means of Building Public Awareness
If Long Island is to be saved, and by “saved” I mean preserved as a desirable place to live for future generations, then everybody in Nassau and Suffolk needs to understand why our drinking water and all our rivers, ponds and bays are imperiled. Lets begin with the premise that if people really understand the problems, and what is at stake, they will do the sensible thing and do what is necessary to protect and restore Long Island’s estuarine and marine environments.
Can Long Island Be Saved, Part XIV: Video and Social Media as A Means of Building Public Awareness (HuffPo)
If Long Island is to be saved, and by “saved” I mean preserved as a desirable place to live for future generations, then everybody in Nassau and Suffolk needs to understand why our drinking water and all our rivers, ponds and bays are imperiled. Lets begin with the premise that if people really understand the problems, and what is at stake, they will do the sensible thing and do what is necessary to protect and restore Long Island’s estuarine and marine environments.
Creating a Display For The Moratorium on Pesticides / Organic Lawn Pledge — PLUS SPECIAL OFFER FOR ALL ORGANIC LAWN PEOPLE IN THE SAYVILLE AREA
What happens when one community decides to adopt organic lawn care practices? How does it change the health of the local waters and of the marine creatures in them? That is the question Sayville is about to try and answer.
Girl Scout Troop #217 Asks You To Take The Organic Lawn Pledge Today!
Girl Scout Troop #217 (Bayport - Blue Point) is challenging their community to go green, to move away from pesticides and high nitrogen fertilizers, and make The Organic Lawn Pledge
Water Matters — Episodes 1-7
Watch Water Matters, and learn about the water issues Long Island faces, and how we can address them.
SAVE THE GREAT SOUTH BAY — AN EARTH DAY PSA
Donate For Earth Day to help Save The Great South Bay!
Water Matters — Episode 6. Enrico Nardone, Executive Director of The Seatuck Environmental Association
Enrico Nardone of Seatuck will present on the diadromous and anadromous fish of Long Island, and how they are an essential part of the the food chain for seals, whales, river otters, gulls, bluefish, stripers, and other larger predators. Alewives, herring, and eels are migratory fish that live part time in fresh water, part time in salt water. For them and the ecosystem to thrive, we need to restore our streams, creeks and rivers, so that these fish can pass freely up and down stream once more. This would involve fish ladders and even dam removal.
A Breach Flyover, 1-28 2016
How's The New Inlet / Bellport Inlet / Breach doing post-Jonas? It's still beautiful, but in new and different ways! Stephen Borghardt, A Director of Save The Great South Bay was up in Dave Sieglinger's plane to take a look. Great shots!
Water Matters — Episode One, Prof Chris Gobler
Water Matters, a web streamed show on surface and ground water issues on Long Island, just aired its first episode. Prof. Gobler spoke on how nitrogen pollution is triggering massive algal blooms and what we must do to combat that.
A Local Moratorium on Pesticides and Fertilizers in Sayville
The Cull House, The Sayville Library, and The Sayville Quad Cinema are three major local Sayville presences supporting the local moratorium on pesticides and non-organic lawn fertilizer.
Sayville High School’s Freshman Class Chooses To Support “Save The Great South Bay”
Each year, each grade at Sayville High School chooses a cause or a non-profit to support. This year, the Freshmen of Sayville High School chose "Save The Great South Bay" as their non-profit. It was Doug Shaw, who teaches English at The High School and was born and raised in Sayville, who reached out to me via our Facebook Group to relay the good news. He told me "the kids were looking to do something really local."