by Marshall Brown | Jul 16, 2015 | Featured
What I love about Save The Great South Bay is that I get to meet so many people who care about the bay, and want to get the message out — This bay is worth saving! Â One of the organizations that reached out to help is a company called Loomstate.org. Â Scott...
by Marshall Brown | Apr 20, 2015 | Fixing Habitats
Save The Great South Bay has just launched a Kickstarter Campaign to raise money for a web-based crowdsourced environmental map of Long Island. Here is a list of the sorts of things this map will allow us to do: 1. Nature photographers will be able to post their...
by Marshall Brown | Mar 23, 2015 | Cleaner Water, Featured
In July 2013, nine months after Sandy and a year after the founding of Save The Great South Bay, I took a pledge at the first annual Aspen Action Forum to ‘help build a sustainable Long Island.’Â The Action Forum draws Aspen Fellows from all over the world...
by Marshall Brown | Dec 24, 2014 | Cleaner Water, Featured, Fixing Habitats
This December finds Long Island’s environmentalists, those in The Nature Conservancy, The Citizen’s Campaign for the Environment, The Group For the East End, The Pine Barrens Society, and the 100+ local organizations in The Long Island Clean Water...
by Marshall Brown | Oct 5, 2014 | Cleaner Water
This notice was sent to me last night by Group for the East End. It’s depressing that once more The County Legislature is trying to pull a fast one on us by raiding funds earmarked for environmental purposes, but here we are. Back in November of 2013, The...
by Marshall Brown | Sep 5, 2014 | Fixing Habitats
In the August 2014 Dujour Magazine online, I wrote about the contamination of Georgica Pond, its bloom of toxic blue-green algae, and efforts by local East Hampton groups, residents, and local environmental scientists to cure the pond. Click here or click the image...
by Marshall Brown | Aug 15, 2014 | Cleaner Water, Featured, Fixing Habitats
Indeed as readily predicted in Part IX of Can Long Island Be Saved, Huffington Post series, the heavy rains led of course to widespread beach closures because Long Island’s groundwater is polluted. 66 closed in Suffolk County. We must fix our groundwater or all...
by Marshall Brown | Jul 20, 2014 | Bay Friendly Yards, Education, Featured
Our second public environmental map: Sustainable Long Island, is now live. Find sustainable and organic farms, vineyards, restaurants, and businesses.  Using Chrome or Firefox browsers, click on the image to view the live map.  Safari will sometimes work, but...
by Marshall Brown | Jul 18, 2014 | Featured, Fixing Habitats
Here’s a useful graphic from The Nature Conservancy showing the sources of nitrogen pollution in various parts of the East End of Long Island, from a report entitled Nitrogen Load Modeling — The Peconic Estuary, New York. The good news – Long...
by Marshall Brown | Jun 18, 2014 | Fixing Habitats
The State Legislature is only in session for one more day up in Albany.  There is only a day left to bring to the floor (and pass!) The Long Island Water Quality Control Act A.9788A/S.7804.   The future of Long Island’s bays, rivers and ponds depend on...
by Marshall Brown | Jun 16, 2014 | Cleaner Water
Here is the Part VII in the series ‘Can Long Island Be Saved? on Huffington Post.
by Marshall Brown | Jun 4, 2014 | Cleaner Water, Education
Here is the Part VI of the continuing Huffington Post Series: Can Long Island Be Saved?  We interview Prof. Christopher Gobler of SUNY Stony Brook’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences.
