by Marshall Brown | May 26, 2016 | Education
Right now people are meeting and planning to launch a moratorium on the use of pesticides and non-organic lawn fertilizers in Sayville. Â The goal is this: Â If we could get just this one community to change its lawn care practices, would we see any measurable...
by Marshall Brown | May 3, 2016 | Bay Friendly Yards, Education
I was recently asked to speak before Girl Scout Troop #217 (Bayport-Blue Point) by Troop Leader Amy Prince about The Great South Bay and what they could do to help it. Â Â They decided to help the bay by asking people in their community to make a pledge not to use...
by Marshall Brown | Apr 21, 2016 | Cleaner Water, Education
“Water Matters,” a web cast show about Long Island’s environment, created in conjunction with Grassroots Environmental Education, Â has now produced seven episodes, all available on YouTube. Â Â An eighth airs tomorrow, Earth Day, at 12:30, with The...
by Marshall Brown | Apr 21, 2016 | Advocacy, Education
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0sPthfadd9E The Great South Bay. For hundreds of years, it was a ‘shellfish factory’: oysters, then clams. This shallow lagoon on The South Shore of Long Island provided half of all the hard shell clams eaten in this country. For...
by Marshall Brown | Apr 7, 2016 | Cleaner Water, Education
Airing tomorrow on Water Matters is a presentation by and interview of Enrico Nardone, Â Executive Director of The Seatuck Environmental Association. Â Â I have a great fondness for Seatuck. Â They do great work as environmental educators and advocates. Â If you...
by Marshall Brown | Jan 30, 2016 | Advocacy, Education, The Breach
One of the directors of Save the Great South Bay, Stephen Borghardt, hitched a ride in Dave Sieglinger’s two seater to take a gander at how “The New Inlet” is faring post-Jonas. Here is what Stephen had to say: “It looks very healthy and maybe...
