Save The Bay Blog

Click here to view the interactive map which accompanies this post. First there were marshes; then there were dumps. The dumps were eventually turned into regulated landfills, and the landfills into shoreline parks. After the Gold Rush, a full one-third of the San Francisco Bay was diked off or filled in for development. Over three [...]

Top of the news this week is an op-ed in the Contra Costa Times and Oakland Tribune by our very own Executive Director, David Lewis making the case for why protecting our communities and shorelines from severe storms should focus on wetland restoration. An article on KQED’s blog focuses on the vulnerability of Silicon Valley [...]

Here at Save The Bay, a number of our staff have biked to work regularly for years, but this month we took a step further, participating in the Team Bike Challenge.  With a quarter of staff logging our bike commutes, we’ve enjoyed competing with other organizations and businesses in the Bay Area to see who [...]

The Phillies weren’t the only out-of-towners that were dealt a blow yesterday. As Giants fans were filing into AT&T Park, just before the Giants/Phillies NLCS game on the beautiful Bay shoreline, a banner was flying over the stadium telling Cargill and their luxury developer, DMB Associates, not to pave our precious San Francisco Bay. Fans [...]

Sign the petition to stop Cargill and help us meet the goal to get 5,000 signatures by spreading the word to your friends! Things keep getting worse and worse for Cargill and their Arizona-based luxury homes developer in their attempt to fill in 1,436 acres of San Francisco Bay salt ponds. Not only have more [...]