Save The Bay Blog

Check out this week’s Weekly Roundup for breaking news affecting San Francisco Bay. Los Angeles Times 5/15/13 Volunteers pull tons (and tons) of trash from California waterways The Ocean Conservancy has run the numbers, and over the course of a single day in September 2012, more than 500,000 volunteers from across the globe collected 10 [...]

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 [...]

On Monday night, I was lucky to catch a screening of the latest environmental documentary, Trashed.  The showing was part of Zero Waste week, which brought professionals from around the world to the Bay Area to discuss strategies for achieving truly sustainable, zero waste communities.  I knew going into the theater that I was in for some [...]

On the morning of February 9th, I headed down to San Jose to participate in one of the city’s Clean Creeks, Healthy Communities cleanups on Coyote Creek, near Selma Olinder Park.  I knew the area would have trash and that it would be busy morning, but I wasn’t prepared for the reality of this day. [...]

I’ve noticed a dramatic change when going into my local grocery store lately. Instead of automatically bagging goods into single use plastic bags people are now bringing in reusable canvas bags, using old bags they already have, or just carrying the items they buy in their hands. It’s amazing to see how a simple change [...]