(10.29) Be a part of the world’s largest volunteer coastal cleanup and check out the site of the upcoming Narragansett brewery while you’re at it. Save the Bay will be hosting International Cleanup Day this Tuesday at India Point. The International Coastal Cleanup is the world’s largest volunteer effort for our ocean. People all over …
Save the Bay cut the ribbon yesterday on their new public pier. You don’t have to be into sailing, fishing, or kayaking to appreciate the beauty of this location and the sheer joy of sittin’ on a dock of the bay. The Save the Bay location is an oasis just minutes from downtown. The opening …
(2.28) Okay everybody, back to the State House (if you run late, head to the Marriott). Join Save the Bay for a demonstration to protect New England waters from a federal plan to open nearly all U.S. continental-shelf waters to oil drilling. (Facebook event.) Meet, get organized, sharpen pitchforks, on the north side (Smith Street) …
(4.8) Volunteers are needed to help clean up the shoreline along River Road. This effort was postponed from an earlier date and serves as the ‘you can help’ portion of last month’s “Message from the Gyre” project by environmental activist and photographer, Chris Jordan. One of the best ways to fight plastic pollution is to …
(3.13) Join author Peter Andreas for a taste of a historically illicit spirit. Andreas, professor of political science and associate director of the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, explains America’s long and surprising relationship with smuggling and illicit trade — starting right here in Rhode island. The $20 tickets (for sale at …
If you were lucky enough to avoid a direct personal hit in the recent floods then maybe this would be a good year to kick in with the spring cleanup around the state. Save The Bay is celebrating 40 years of Earth Day and 40 years of Saving The Bay. Click here for info on …
This might not be Narragansett Bay — I’m not a beach person — but it is a gray seal, one of the four types we have around here. (Kind of looks like B.J. Novak.) This Saturday ‘Save the Bay’ starts up its seal watch and lighthouse cruises around Rose Island aboard the Alletta Morris. They …
Photographer Richard Benjamin will be discussing his new book Narragansett Bay this afternoon at Books on the Square. This work is a collaboration with John Torgan, Baykeeper for Save the Bay, who provided the text. Benjamin will be signing after the talk. (No indication that Torgan will be part of this event which is too …
Save the Bay will be holding a fundraiser Saturday night to honor the Narragansett Bay Commission for the aforementioned tunnel project. Drinks, food, lame music.. you know the drill. I’m assuming they will have pictures of the project on display because it really is quite stupendous. It’s amazing to think that this enormous engineering project …