by Robyn Silvestri, Executive Director | Jan 31, 2022 | Advocacy, Fixing Habitats, Podcast, Water Matters
On this episode of Water Matters, we are joined by Kevin McAllister of Defend H2O to discuss how physical coastal changes are influenced by climate change, how policy can protect our coastal resources, and what this all means for the Great South Bay and Long Island as...
by Robyn Silvestri, Executive Director | Jan 15, 2022 | Advocacy, Cleaner Water, Nitrogen Pollution, Podcast, Septic Tanks, Water Matters
On this episode of Water Matters, we are joined by Katherine Coughlin of The North Shore Land Alliance, with the support of The Nature Conservancy, to discuss how updating cesspools or septic systems can not only save homeowners money, but also help save the Great...
by Katie Muether Brown | May 1, 2020 | Cleaner Water, Education, Fixing Habitats, Water Matters, Water Quality
Save The Great South Bay warmly welcomes guest blogger, Katie Muether Brown, Deputy Director of the Long Island Pine Barrens Society on how our Pine Barren trees help protect our waters. Colloquially, the piece of legislation that protected over 100,000 acres of Pine...
by Marshall Brown | May 18, 2017 | Advocacy, Water Matters
Growing up on Long Island, I loved turtles. Painted, snappers, box turtles, spotted turtles, mud turtles. But for me the most elusive and by far the most beautiful were The Diamondback Terrapins. Their habitat is salt water marsh. They will spend their entire...
by Marshall Brown | Jan 30, 2017 | Advocacy, Fixing Habitats, Water Matters
Please watch as Curt Johnson, Executive Director of Save The Sound, discusses the progress that has been made in helping The Long Island Sound recover, and the work that still needs to be done, especially on Long Island, where tens of thousands of cesspools and septic...