by Marshall Brown | Sep 10, 2013 | Bay Friendly Yards, Cleaner Water, Education, Fixing Habitats
September 10th marks the launch of The Long Island Clean Water Partnership A consortium of 125 organizations (and growing), the partnership is dedicated to addressing the biggest threat facing Long Island and its future — contaminated ground water that is both...
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...
by Marshall Brown | Aug 8, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Education, Fixing Habitats
It has become the reflexive habit of news organizations to frame every news item as a conflict, a controversy.   Without that, there is no story.  You could be in a lecture hall for two and a half hours, listen to a panel, then have public statements from a crowd of...
by John Hall | Jul 30, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Fixing Habitats, Shellfish
Carl LoBue’s posts on the Save The Great South Bay Facebook page always get me thinking, and googling. And this one is no exception: Carl LoBue, on the relationship between the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant and Point Lookout seaweed: Although the configuration...
by Marshall Brown | Jun 12, 2013 | Cleaner Water
….which begs the question, ‘shouldnt we be opening up breaches in Shinnecock and Moriches Bays and other places so that they could be freed of brown tides as well, and so that the fish can come back?  We’d still need to get our acts together...
