Save The Bay Blog

Biking through Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, I emerge into the pinkish glow of the sun setting over Ocean Beach. The sun sinks below the horizon, eclipsed by a large container ship cruising from San Francisco Bay toward distant ports across the Pacific Ocean. Like ducks in a row, two more follow and another [...]

In an age when your phone is smarter than you are, and scientists can clone just about anything, why are we still allowing tons of trash to pollute our Bay? According to a recent study, over a million gallons of trash flow into the San Francisco Bay each year  from our streets and storm drains. [...]

Tomorrow, all eleven San Francisco supervisors will vote on whether to approve amendments to the city’s single-use bag ordinance, proposed by Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi and co-sponsored by Supervisor David Campos.  The main changes will: Expand the ban to apply to all retail establishments and restaurants Establish a minimum ten cent charge for paper, compostable plastic, [...]

Two disturbing new stories came out recently illustrating industry attempts to block efforts to clean up our environment. It was reported in the New York Times that Coca Cola, who made a whooping $2.2 billion in profits in the last quarter alone, used their financial influence to squash the National Park Service’s attempts to ban [...]