by Marshall Brown | Dec 6, 2019 | Podcast
Commercial developers and environmentalists may not seem likely bedfellows but surprisingly there is much common ground when it comes to sustainable development. Listen in to our recent conversation with real estate developer Anthony Bartone of Terwilliger &...
by Frank Piccininni | Nov 18, 2019 | Podcast
On Monday, Nov 18th, Frank Piccininni, Save the Great South Bay Board Member, Biologist, and Environmental Attorney, spoke before the Assembly Minority Conference’s Water Quality Task Force about the benefits of Bay Friendly Yards and how increased funding could...
by Wayne Horsley | Oct 12, 2019 | Fixing Habitats, The Breach, The New Inlet
Engineered Inlet with Storm Gate at Gilgo State Park A sad fact is the Great South Bay is still very ill. New York State and Suffolk County is valiantly fighting the good fight to reduce nitrogen in our enriched heated bay. Removing the nitrogen, upgrading...
by Marshall Brown | Sep 27, 2019 | News
On September 21st, the last day of summer, The Mayor’s Charity Cup Regatta was run once again for the first time in over a dozen years.  The race took place at The Long Island Yacht Club in Babylon, which like the regatta itself is undergoing a real renaissance...
by Marshall Brown | Aug 30, 2019 | Advocacy, Featured, News
The Long Island Yacht Club is hosting a clam bake / beach party / fundraiser for Save The Great South Bay on September 21st from 3-7, with York Analytical Laboratories as the Presenting Sponsor. For $75 admission adult, $25 for kids, or $150 for VIPs, you can...
by Marshall Brown | Jul 21, 2019 | Advocacy, Creek Defender
With the failure of the dam at West Brook, we all have a golden opportunity to engage in some essential habitat restoration,  The fact that this artificial pond (or impoundment) created in the 1880s is now gone, and now West Brook is one of the few brooks, streams or...
by James Bertsch | Jul 12, 2019 | Creek Defender
Originally posted with The Suffolk County News, June 20th.  Reprinted with permission here. By James Bertsch SAYVILLE—Self-interest offers no solutions for pollution. In fact, it’s what caused it in the first place. We take shortcuts to maximize our benefits. ...
by James Bertsch | Jul 12, 2019 | Advocacy, News
[Originally Published in The Suffolk County News Under “Lets Learn From Our Past Mistakes.”  Reposted with permission here] BY JAMES BERTSCH SUFFOLK COUNTY—For most, owning a home is what the American Dream is all about. Nothing speaks more directly to...
by Marshall Brown | Jun 20, 2019 | Bay Friendly Yards, Creek Defender, Featured, Fixing Habitats
As those familiar with this organization knows, we are dedicated to habitat restoration, whether along our creeks via The Creek Defender Program, or on our properties via our Bay Friendly Yards Program, or through our efforts to restore habitat itself as we work with...
by Marshall Brown | Jun 18, 2019 | Advocacy, Bay Friendly Yards, Creek Defender, Featured
Last Thursday I was a guest for Coffee With The Supervisor as a guest of Brookhaven’s Ed Romaine. While there was no coffee served, Ed did lob a couple o softballs as we joined together to rail against the destructive practice of methoprene spraying. Ed had back...
by Howard Ryan | Jun 17, 2019 | Advocacy, Fixing Habitats
Save The Great South Bay recently launched a window sticker program so that we can continue to build local awareness. Whether you own a store or drive a car, or captain a boat: Kevin Carey, who grew up in Sayville, where of course I knew the family, hosted the launch...
by Howard Ryan | May 24, 2019 | Advocacy, Community Board, Featured, News, Stickers
It is with great pleasure I can tell you that this sticker program is now EXPLODING all over Long Island! The idea is simple. Stickers Everywhere! Initial results are overwhelming!!!! It does cost us a couple of bucks to make the stickers and mail them to you albeit...
