Tag Archives: bay restoration

Opposition to Cargill erupts in Redwood City

Cargill & DMB developed a very big headache at the Planning Commission meeting in Redwood City last Tuesday night. Redwood City asked for their residents’ input on the proposed salt pond development, and that is exactly what they got – over three hours of it. The overflow crowd lined the walls, sat on the floors [...]

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Cargill developer “myths” debunked

Recent blog and Twitter posts by Cargill’s Redwood City developer DMB state, “there’s been a lot of misinformation and half-truths being circulated out there.” No kidding. Openly concerned about the attention being paid to their unprecedented plans to build a new city in the Bay, the increasingly desperate developer is clumsily attempting to erase many [...]

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Sowing the Seeds of Change

When I say service, you say learning: service-learning, service-learning! Three cheers for the 21st Annual National Service Learning Conference. A few short weeks ago, thousands of youth, teachers, and service-learning practitioners from around the globe gathered at the San Jose Convention Center to get inspired, share ideas, and gain tools for engaging young people in [...]

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Community-based Restoration gettin’ cred with community

We think our Community-based Restoration program is pretty awesome, but it’s always nice to hear that the community thinks so too. Just in the last week, two separate videos hit the web touting the benefits of teaming up with Save The Bay to restore vital wetland habitat around our great natural treasure. Last Thursday, a [...]

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A slew in the slough

By Trisha Allen, Education Coordinator Have you ever wondered what 1,137 middle and high school students navigating the San Francisco Bay sloughs in canoes look like? It looks like gaggles of excited and nervous kids clad in Save The Bay’s finest PFDs, outfitted with paddles, and all geared up for a sensory exploration of the [...]

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