Why is the Audubon Society involved with the restoration of tidal marshes around Long Island Sound and the island's south shore?
The Society's work is designed to protect birds and people from increased flooding and more frequent storms.
Host Francesca Rheannon spoke this week with Samantha Dietz and Jillian Linerof the Audubon Society about the Society's Coastal Program.
The Conference of Parties or COP 26 meeting in Glasgow just concluded with nations committing to a partial control of green house gas emissions over several years.
But what’s happening locally that can help slow down global warming?
Tonight we talk with Darr Reilly and Sheila Peiffer of Drawdown East End about how individuals acting locally and in a group can help reverse global warming.
And we also talk with Lynn Arthur of the Town of Southampton’s Sustainability Committee about how the Long Island Power Authority and the Town are planning to increase solar power generation.
listen hereFrancesca Rheannon talks with Polly Weigand of the Long Island Native Plant Initiative at The Sisters of St. Joseph in Brentwood, Long Island.
The Plant Initiative is an all volunteer organization of non-profit organizations, governmental agencies, nursery professionals, and citizens with a mission to protect the genetic integrity and heritage of Long Island native plant populations.
more about the long Island Native Plant InitiativeFrancesca Rheannon talks with Polly Weigand of the Long Island Native Plant Initiative at The Sisters of St. Joseph in Brentwood, Long Island.
The Plant Initiative is an all volunteer organization of non-profit organizations, governmental agencies, nursery professionals, and citizens with a mission to protect the genetic integrity and heritage of Long Island native plant populations.
more about the long Island Native Plant InitiativeThe Peconic Bay scallop season begins the first Monday in November and continues through March. But the scallops have been wiped out in East End waters in each of the past three seasons. After the first season wipeout, Francesca Rheannon talked with Steven Tettelbach of the Cornell Cooperative Extension about the catastrophic failure of the scallop harvest.
Then, earlier this year Francesca spoke with Dr. Chris Gobler of the School of Marine and Atmospheric Science at Stony Brook University and fisherman Sean Barrett of Dock to Dish, a community-supported fishery about the promise of kelp farming in local bays for cleaning up pollution in our waters. If that succeeds, it could help our local bivalves like scallops and oysters survive and thrive.
Mariah Dignan is an organizer for Climate Jobs – New York.
Host Francesca Rheannon spoke to Mariah this week as Congress considered billions on infrastructure projects.
More information on climate jobs New York is on-line at climatejobsny.org
Update on South Fork Wind Farm:
This week the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management completed its environmental review of the proposed South Fork Wind project offshore of New York and Rhode Island.
The project, proposed for approximately 19 miles southeast of Block Island, Rhode Island, and 35 miles east of Montauk Point will deliver approximately 130 megawatts (MW) of power to the South Fork of Long Island.
The South Fork Wind project would create up to 1,700 jobs. If approved, it would be the second commercial-scale offshore wind project in the United States.
The South Fork Wind project, first proposed in 2015, will build a wind farm off the coast of Long Island, 35 miles east of Montauk.
It will help the state reach its goal of 70% renewable energy by 2030 and the goal of East Hampton Town to have 100% of its energy needs met by renewable sources.
The project reached a major milestone when state agencies signed a Joint Proposal to allow the project to move forward, despite opposition from some wealthy homeowners at the site in Wainscott where the power cable from the wind farm will come ashore.
Last October Francesca talked with East Hampton’s Cate Rogers about the project.
This week she checked back with Cate about the progress of the South Fork Windfarm as it goes through the governmental review process.
Here is the conversation, followed by last October's discussion
