Save The Bay Blog

I’m always stunned by what I find in my own backyard. Living near and commuting across the Bay, I keep stumbling on local treasures — an amazing view of the harbor from Noe Valley, or the Bay Bridge shimmering against the bright lights of rush hour traffic. I’m also discovering that I share a home [...]

A large part of our organization is focused on education: teaching kids and adults at our restoration programs and engaging the public through outreach and actions. We are always looking for new ways to talk about endangered species or invasive species, plastic bags or Styrofoam, the Bay history or the Bay future. And we hope [...]

San Francisco Bay’s wetlands are vibrant, complex, and truly beautiful places.   Save The Bay’s wetland restoration sites span the Bay, reaching from Palo Alto and Menlo Park in the South up through Hayward, Oakland, and into Marin.   Each one of these sites has a unique history, geography, and compliment of flora and fauna worthy of [...]

This is a guest blog by Mark Feldman: On a sunny Tuesday morning in January a group of high school students were using an interpretive dance to show middle school students the steps for planting seedlings in the marsh at the Martin Luther King Jr. Shoreline Park in Oakland.  The older students dramatized how to [...]

When I say service, you say learning: service-learning, service-learning! Three cheers for the 21st Annual National Service Learning Conference. A few short weeks ago, thousands of youth, teachers, and service-learning practitioners from around the globe gathered at the San Jose Convention Center to get inspired, share ideas, and gain tools for engaging young people in [...]