Save The Bay Blog

It’s amazing how resilient nature can be when we give it half a chance.  Even in the face of massive urbanization, pollution, and climate change, steelhead trout are returning to a Bay Area creek where citizens have spent years restoring habitat … and it’s right behind the backyards I played in as a child. As [...]

More than 14 years after returning to my native Bay Area, I’m still in awe of the Bay and its beauty.  For the last year, I’ve had a sweeping Bay view from my office in downtown Oakland, and I’m blessed with a view of the Golden Gate from my home in the Berkeley Hills.  But [...]

Two state bills that Save The Bay was watching closely failed to make it out of the legislature this year, where jobs and the economy took top billing. A state bill to ban plastic bags was proposed for the third time in the past five years. AB 298 (Assemblymember Brownley) would have banned plastic bags [...]

It turns out that Larry Goldzband and I were wandering the same marble hallways of Washington, DC, 30 years ago, long before San Francisco Bay brought us together. In 1983, Larry was working on the staff of a liberal Republican Congressman from Manhattan (before that species was banished from the U.S. Congress).  Rep. Bill Green [...]

After a stern rejection in Redwood City last week, Cargill’s development partner DMB immediately promised to keep pushing to build a new city on restorable salt ponds that would threaten the health of the Bay, put residents in the path of rising seas and forever destroy open space. Despite overwhelming public opposition, these stubborn corporations [...]