Save The Bay Blog

It was a brilliantly sunny day with a strong breeze kicking up whitecaps on the Bay when around 100 founding Save The Bay members gathered at The Berkeley Yacht Club for Save The Bay’s annual Founding Members’ Tea. Save The Bay co-founder, Sylvia McLaughlin was on hand to greet the crowd of old friends. A [...]

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 [...]

Check out this week’s Weekly Roundup for breaking news affecting San Francisco Bay. Slate 4/19/13 Seven Spectacular Places Saved by the Environmental Movement The first Earth Day, in 1970, was inspired by anger. The nation was a mess. Four million gallons of oil from a blown offshore well were smearing California beaches. Flames leapt from the [...]

Earlier this year, the San Francisco Bay/Estuary was named a “Wetland of International Importance” under the 1971 “Ramsar Convention.” The United States is one of 165 parties to the intergovernmental treaty which have committed to work towards the wise use of all their wetlands through national land-use planning, appropriate policies and legislation, and public education. [...]

It all began about 4 years ago, when I found myself sitting on my porch, intently staring at my back yard that had overgrown with weeds. In my mind I began to imagine rows of romaine lettuce and carrots, overflowing vines of peas and beans winding through hand-built wooden trellises, bountiful tomato bushes, untamed squash [...]