Save The Bay Blog

Last year included some tremendous wins for Save The Bay and our team of Wonks.  From Cargill pulling their proposal from the Redwood City planning process, to the successful passage and implementation of bag bans in Alameda County, San Francisco, and nearly a dozen other jurisdictions, it’s been a busy year. As we look toward [...]

A county-wide plastic bag ban went into effect in all 14 cities and unincorporated areas in Alameda County on January 1. Businesses and consumers alike took it all in stride. Meanwhile, Marin County looks back on its first year under a plastic bag ban and finds that the ban is working, with fewer plastic bags [...]

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 [...]

In this week’s roundup, local Bay savers Gail Raade and Matt Leddy are profiled in the Redwood City Patch with a discussion about their fight to stop Cargill’s development plans. In another part of the South Bay, two lost dolphins are sighted in Colma Creek. In Berkeley, the opening of Cal’s new stadium disappoints former [...]

In this week’s roundup, Minane Jameson of Hayward’s shoreline agency speaks out against Cargill’s Redwood City plans. Meanwhile, NOAA proposes expanding marine sanctuary to just outside the Golden Gate. A new EcoCenter brings another meaning to restoration along the Bay Trail in Palo Alto. In the North Bay, Sonoma County moves ahead with plastic bag [...]