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How Can I Help Save Long Island’s Waters?

by Marshall Brown | Sep 8, 2013 | Bay Friendly Yards, Cleaner Water, Fixing Habitats

Join The Cause and Build a Future For Long Island!   Start using lawn and agricultural fertilizers that are eco-friendly, that don’t pollute our groundwater, drinking water and bays with excess nitrogen and phosphorus. The excess nitrogen has been...

Local Filmmaker Seeks Support for Documentary About Long Island Pollution

by Marshall Brown | Jul 22, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Featured, Fixing Habitats

Save The Great South Bay wishes Chris Casey all the best in his efforts to fund his film, “Air, Land, Water:  The Environmental Challenges Facing Long Island.” Visit his site at LongIslandPollution.com.   It well describes what we are facing.   Chris, we...

Save The Great South Bay — A Grassroots Movement

by Marshall Brown | Jul 7, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Featured, Fixing Habitats

Save The Great South Bay, a non-profit organization founded in August 2012, is a local grassroots organization dedicated to the revitalization of the bay. We want future generations to fish, clam and swim in these waters as we had. We want to restore marine and...

Long Island’s Drinking Water: Threats and Solutions

by Marshall Brown | Jul 2, 2013 | Bay Friendly Yards, Cleaner Water, Featured, Fixing Habitats

The Long Island Clean Water Coalition, formed by a group of some twenty eco-non-profits and environmental research institutions large and small  have come together to to address the water quality crisis now facing Long Island.   Our groundwater is polluted, and...
Pouring Rain Again — Many Long Island Beaches Will Remain Closed Because of Polluted Ground Water

Pouring Rain Again — Many Long Island Beaches Will Remain Closed Because of Polluted Ground Water

by Marshall Brown | Jun 13, 2013 | Bay Friendly Yards, Cleaner Water, Fixing Habitats

The ecological condition of Long Island’s ground water has reached a crisis point.   Year by year the algal blooms grow more intense and pervasive, with brown tides erasing more habitats, with contaminated waters closing more and more acres to shellfishing, and...
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