by Save The Great South Bay | Sep 10, 2020 | Eco Lawns
We invite you to join us on Wednesday, Sept. 16 from 7-8 M via Zoom for a panel discussion and Q&A on how you can incorporate sustainable landscaping to not only protect our waterways, but also to promote biodiversity and healthy regional ecosystems. Our panelists...
by Save The Great South Bay | Aug 31, 2020 | Bay Friendly Yards, Cleaner Water, Eco Lawns, Fixing Habitats, Water Quality
Beyond providing nutrition and beautifying spaces, gardens can serve many purposes, such as supporting natural processes and pollinators. Rain gardens are a type of specialty garden that help protect our waterways by managing stormwater runoff. Below are some tips ...
by Robyn Silvestri, Executive Director | Aug 19, 2020 | Fixing Habitats
With 34 teams competing in our first ever GSB Summer Fun Scavenger Hunt the competition was fierce. The game started promptly at 9:00 am on Saturday, August 15th with missions being revealed to all players within the Goose Chase app. Within seconds, teams were racking...
by Save The Great South Bay | Aug 11, 2020 | Bay Friendly Yards, Cleaner Water, Eco Lawns, Fixing Habitats
Long Island invented the suburban lawn. Fields of green with ornamental bushes brought in from all over the world requiring all manner of care — watering, fertilizing, pesticides — so that exotics and plants from other climates could survive here. But...
by Robyn Silvestri, Executive Director | Aug 7, 2020 | Cleaner Water, Fixing Habitats, Nitrogen Pollution, Shellfish, Water Quality
Supporting Oyster Farmers & Aquaculture Save The Great South Bay, a 501(c)3 environmental non-profit, is proud to launch the GSB Oyster Project with an initial effort to support local oyster farmers struggling due to COVID-19 market shutdown by purchasing their...
by Robyn Silvestri, Executive Director | Aug 5, 2020 | Bay Friendly Yards, Education, Fixing Habitats
Lost trees thanks to the blustering winds of Tropical Storm Isaias and wondering what to replace them with? Here are our top five suggestions of Bay Friendly Yard trees – all of which are native to Long Island. According to Frank Piccininni, Director of Habitat...
by Save The Great South Bay | Aug 3, 2020 | Algal Blooms, Cleaner Water, Education, Water Quality
From our colleagues at the NYS Department of Environmental Control. Because it is hard to tell a HAB from non-harmful algal blooms, it is best to avoid swimming, boating, otherwise recreating in, or drinking water with a bloom. Keep reading to learn what to do if you...
by Robyn Silvestri, Executive Director | Jul 24, 2020 | Bay Friendly Yards, Cleaner Water, Creek Defender, Eco Lawns, Fixing Habitats
On the banks of the beautiful Carll’s River in Babylon Village, just where it crosses under Park Avenue, you will find the Carll’s River Native Forest, a Save The Great South Bay habitat restoration project established in April 2019 as a collaborative effort with the...
by Save The Great South Bay | Jul 20, 2020 | Advocacy, Cleaner Water, Education, Water Quality
We stand shoulder to shoulder with our colleagues at Group for the East End, and many other local environmental groups, in opposition of the two bills proposed by County Executive Steve Bellone that would raid the County’s Drinking Water Protection Program for the...
by Robyn Silvestri, Executive Director | Jul 15, 2020 | Education, Fixing Habitats, Seagrass, Shellfish
We welcome DEC Seagrass Management with a guest blog post on the importance of seagrass to the Great South Bay. What is seagrass? Seagrasses are Submerged Aquatic Vegetation (SAV) that create highly productive habitats in shallow coastal waters across the globe....
by Robyn Silvestri, Executive Director | Jul 14, 2020 | Creek Defender, Fixing Habitats
New Date! Sat Aug 15-Sun Aug 16 Join our Summer Fun Scavenger Hunt between July 24-26th when teams of up to four players compete for a treasure chest full of goodies by completing missions, such as taking a selfie at a favorite spot on the Bay, or ….. well, we don’t...
by Save The Great South Bay | Jul 11, 2020 | Cleaner Water, Creek Defender, Fixing Habitats
It’s back & more refreshing than ever. It’s Blue Point Brewery’s remarkable (and limited edition) label, Drink The Bay Clean, created to support Save The Great South Bay in its mission. This year’s rendition, as a delicious Helles Lager,...
