Save The Bay Blog

For most of you, this week’s to do list includes buying chocolate, flowers, and cards for the mothers in your life.  After all, mothers deserve a special day of recognition for everything they do for us.  But what about Mother Nature? Mother Nature provides a myriad of incredible benefits that we all enjoy and usually [...]

As much fun as it is to stroll the neighborhood with your best four-legged friend, some human guardians like to take long, unattached walks with their dogs. And most dogs appreciate the opportunity to frolic, sniff, and run off leash. Though much of the Bay shoreline is sensitive habitat that’s home to endangered and threatened [...]

An oil tanker hit the Bay Bridge early this week, fortunately causing only minimal damage, with no oil spilled. The cause remains unknown, but serves as a reminder that the rules governing tankers in the Bay are not strong enough. The Bay Bridge is exempt from the San Francisco Harbor Safety Plan, which advises ships [...]

Due to the slow but steady nature of ocean expansion, sea level rise has a tendency to be dismissed as a far-off predicament, not as an immediate threat. But with seas expected to rise 16 inches in the Bay Area by 2050, flooding 180,000 acres of coastline, the issue is now at our doorstep. Literally. [...]

In October 2012, Philip Hammarskjold, a Save The Bay supporter, was a Guest Racer with America’s Cup during Fleet Week, thanks to our 50th Anniversary Gala auction item that he won. He described the ride as “one of those once in a lifetime events” that he’ll never forget. In his own words: “I rode with [...]