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 [...]

Jose Gonzalez recently experienced one of Save The Bay’s Restoration Education Programs. These observations were originally posted on his blog, Green Chicano. A cool San Francisco Bay morning is warming up on a marshy shore of the Martin Luther King Jr. Shoreline, part of the East Bay Regional Park District. A couple of joggers and [...]

Last month I attended one of our Restoration Education Programs, where our restoration team partnered with a local school to take 6th graders out to the Bay for a day of hands-on learning. After everyone had arrived and circled up a thought formed in my brain (and I know I wasn’t alone in this) – it was [...]

The last few weeks have been quite soggy around the Bay. From record King Tides to winter storms that packed a punch, Bay Area residents have become well aware that the winter season is upon us. These storms have wreacked havoc on our morning commutes, created the always frustrating soggy sock dilemma, and have even [...]

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 [...]