by Marshall Brown | Mar 8, 2019 | Featured, Fixing Habitats, Shellfish
Cornell Cooperative Extension recently reached out to Save The Great South Bay in search of lead volunteers and regular volunteers for their Shellfish Restoration Project. Below is the flyer for the program: Lead Volunteer Responsibilities As a Lead Volunteer for...
by Marshall Brown | Mar 8, 2019 | Featured, News
Save The Great South Bay is pleased to announce that York Analytical Laboratories is now a major benefactor of Save The Great South Bay. York is a family-operated environmental testing laboratory of contaminants in water, soil and air, and has served Long Island and...
by Marshall Brown | Mar 6, 2019 | Featured, News
Save The Great South Bay is delighted to announce that Karen Vaccaro Marvin has joined our Board of Directors. Karen is Founder of South Shore Paddleboards (258 East Main Street, Babylon, NY). Karen has long been a supporter of Save The Great South Bay, most...
by Marshall Brown | Feb 13, 2019 | Advocacy, Bay Friendly Yards, Creek Defender, Fixing Habitats
Suddenly the phrase “Green New Deal” is on everyone’s lips. As our youth peers ahead at our near future, what they see is quite bleak. Sea level rise, ocean acidification, plastics pollution, rising CO2 levels, collapsing ecosystems on one hand,...
by | Feb 1, 2019 | Featured, News
Here is our latest installment of Newsroom, where guest posters come to contribute their expertise, Here Richard Murdocco of The Foggiest Idea is here to tell us that we have a host of pollutants to deal with as we seek to decontaminate our groundwater and...
by | Jan 25, 2019 | Advocacy, Featured, Fixing Habitats
[Guest posted by Jack Bonner, from East Islip and now a student at Loyola, Maryland] It is 5:30 a.m. and I’m leaving my home port headed out towards the Robert Moses Causeway. There is dew on my windshield, and I can taste the salt air as the sun rises over my back....
by | Jan 21, 2019 | Featured, Fixing Habitats
Reposted with permission from The Foggiest Idea Richard Murdocco is an important read. Also a great presenter. Check out his site for his calendar. This article gets to the point — the consensus is that our wastewater problems won’t be solved any time...
by Marshall Brown | Jan 20, 2019 | Featured, News
Dear Members of The Save The Great South Bay Facebook Group: Over the past 6+ years, I have watched this group grow to almost 15,000. That’s a tribute to your love for this bay. Lots of great posts, photos, videos. A strong — and civil —...
by Marshall Brown | Jan 17, 2019 | Advocacy, Creek Defender, Featured, Fixing Habitats, News
2019: A CALL TO ACTION The first thing we can say is this: Our plans in 2019 involve you. Lots of you. The bay has big problems, and its going to take all of us working together — local citizens, schools, local civic associations, The Rotary Clubs and The...
by Marshall Brown | Jan 16, 2019 | Advocacy, Featured
Save The Great South Bay encourages all local residents eligible for a sewer hook up (the red zones on the map ) to vote YES Jan 22nd. Here is a website, Clean Water For Carll’s River, which was set up to address the project and to answer FAQs. The polling...
by Marshall Brown | Jan 9, 2019 | Bay Friendly Yards, Cleaner Water, Featured, Fixing Habitats
Two years back, Save The Great South Bay was invited to become a member of the Fertilizer Workgroup for The Long Island Nitrogen Action Plan (LINAP). LINAP, a multiyear initiative to reduce nitrogen in Long Island’s surface and groundwaters, was established by...
by Marshall Brown | Jan 7, 2019 | Bay Friendly Yards, Featured
Greetings! In conjunction with the launch of our Bay Friendly Yards Program, we are proud to offer an accompanying E-Book! Have a yard that’s planted with natives, that doesn’t therefore need any fertilizers or pesticides or excess waters to thrive. ...
