Category Archives: water quality

Fish Doing Well

Posted on April 25, 2022 by David Posnett

In the East Hampton Star 4/21/22 East HamptonApril 18, 2022 Dear David, Much of the resistance to the South Fork Wind farm, currently being constructed 35 miles east of Montauk’s Lighthouse, has centered on the question of whether it might … Continue reading →

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Legalize Kelp Farming in our Bays – Let’s Blue-Green Our Economy

Posted on March 4, 2021 by David Posnett

 Join us in signing onto this petition to Legalize Kelp Farming in our Bays . Dear Senators Kaminsky and Stec, Chair and Ranking Member of the Senate Environmental Conservation Committee, and Assemblymen Englebright and Smullen, Chair and Ranking Member of the Assembly … Continue reading →

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And Now, For Some 2020 Good Climate News

Posted on December 31, 2020 by David Posnett

Get Ready to Make a New Year’s Climate Pledge Looking for some good news on climate?  Get ready to set some priorities and make some New Year’s Climate Resolutions. Recently @GlobalEcoGuy Dr. Jon Foley reminded me (and 60k followers) about … Continue reading →

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Friend of clean water, biodiversity, climate-friendly regenerative businesses and safe-guarding our shorelines? Read on…..

Posted on December 1, 2020 by David Posnett

Dear Friend of the Shellfish Farmer,  If you are a friend of clean water, biodiversity, climate-friendly regenerative businesses, coastline protection, Earth and her oceans read on….. Join us in support of our shellfish farmers, and support the inclusion of commercial … Continue reading →

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Vote NO on Proposal #2

Posted on October 10, 2020 by David Posnett

https://www.pinebarrens.org/voteforcleanwater/ While we are all concentrating on the front of the ballot, there are 2 proposals on the back. #2 is of particular concern. Here is why. Your drinking water is at risk! While everyone was home and grappling with … Continue reading →

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Complete Lee Zeldin Environmental Voting Record

Posted on July 8, 2020 by David Posnett

Lee Zeldin’s League of Conservation Voters (LCV) score for 2019 was 28%. This seems like an improvement from his scores from prior years, which hovered around 10%, but to put things in perspective: The average Member of Congress score in … Continue reading →

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Septic Taxation: The Zeldin Tax?

Posted on February 20, 2020 by David Posnett

 

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The People You Meet Picking Up Beach Plastic

Posted on April 11, 2019 by David Posnett

Serenely beautiful, surreal, spiritual.  Three weeks on the sugar-white sands of Tulum, contemplating the sometimes jade, sometimes topaz, sometimes evening blue Caribbean.  On days when the sea was perfectly flat and clear you could watch the sting rays and barracudas … Continue reading →

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Don’t Make Me Laugh

Posted on September 13, 2018 by David Posnett

  By Perry Gershon: Lee Zeldin wants you to think he’s an environmentalist. He’s spending big bucks blasting that absurd idea across Long Island television. Don’t make me laugh. In his four years in Congress, Lee has voted against the … Continue reading →

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Dangerous Men

Posted on September 8, 2018 by David Posnett

Bleached Staghorn Coral By James Ewing (Watermill, NY) “The GOP Republican party is the most dangerous organization in human history…dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organized human life on earth.”—Noam Chomsky, scholar, MIT. What are these most dangerous … Continue reading →

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