Lets try this again!!! A talk with Save The Bay on The State of the Bay will be held at the Mighty South end Rowing Club, 500 Jefferson Street, Friday, March 28th at 7pm. The presentation will go over Save the Bays amazing grass roots start by 3 concerned women back in 1961 and what they are now, with Naturalists, Lobbiest and all the things they need to help protect our Bay. They will also be giving an up date on major hot spots in the Bay. So, please join us the last Friday of March for a very informative talk on this amazing body of water we all know and love. Who: Save the Bay What: Talk on the State of the Bay When: 7pm, Friday, March 28th Where: the mighty South end. Two administrative things: 1) Could you let me know by posting below if you plan on coming so we can plan for food? 2) Along the same lines, I could use a chef in the kitchen. . . Dinner will be by donation. A brief idea of who Save the Bay is: For more than half a century, Save The Bay has given San Francisco Bay a voice and shown that Bay Area residents can work together to make positive changes in their communities. In 1961, San Francisco Bay was choked with sewage and industrial pollution, ringed with garbage dumps, and only 6 miles of its shoreline was accessible to the public. Filling and diking of the shallow Bay had destroyed 90 percent of its original wetlands and shrunk its size by one-third. Every city had its own plans to grow by filling in more the Bay. There was no Environmental Protection Agency, no Clean Water Act, no Endangered Species Act, and no effective regulations against rampant development in the Bay. The first Earth Day was still nine years away. When three East Bay women, Kay Kerr, Sylvia McLaughlin, and Esther Gulick, saw an Oakland Tribune illustration showing how development threatened to shrink San Francisco Bay to a narrow shipping channel by 2020, they took action. They made phone calls, wrote letters, held meetings, and collected $1 each from thousands of Bay Area residents to create the Save San Francisco Bay Association.
Posted on: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 20:08:19 +0000
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