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 [...]

In celebration of Earth Day, this past weekend Save The Bay partnered with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge, REI, the Lucy Evans Nature Center, the Environmental Volunteers Eco Center, and a total of 76 community volunteers to clean up and restore habitat at several sites along the San Francisco [...]

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. [...]

Residents of the little patch of Marin near Marin General Hospital might be familiar with Hal Brown Park for its newly renovated playgrounds and picnic tables, or for its singularly stunning view of Mt. Tam. But few Bay Area residents know that this park also hosts one of the Bay’s most easily accessible restored marshlands. Or [...]

In this week’s roundup, a local native shrub gets federal protection. As the state’s legislative year ends, few environmental bills were approved. Looking to California’s future, Bill Jennings outlines why a Peripheral Tunnel is a bad idea for the Delta. Plus, the Solano Land Trust preserves 1500 acres of open space, while a local mom [...]