Environmental Websites
Listed below are a few environmental websites that may be of some interest . There are many different ways we can help our environment. Please take a few moments and click on the links, you will be amazed how so many things effect our environment. Enjoy!
WWW.SEAGRASSLI.ORG- This website is the Cornell Cooperative Extension Eelgrass Program. Their goal is for restoration, management, research, and education of many of our local marine resources here on Long Island.
www.theoceanproject.org - The Ocean Project Mission
They are an unprecedented initiative that intends to create in people a lasting, measurable awareness of the importance, value, and sensitivity of the ocean. They believe that the single greatest impediment to healthy and productive marine and coastal areas is the public's low level of ocean awareness.
Through this collaboration among aquariums, zoos, science, technology, and natural history museums, and other educational institutions that together serve more than 200 million visitors each year, The Ocean Project aims to significantly increase the success of ocean conservation. The Ocean Project seeks to complement and build upon the work of existing institutions and organizations. They also collaborate with local, regional, and national nonprofit conservation and environmental organizations to actively involve people in conservation activities in their communities and better connect them to the ocean.
The Jones Beach Power Squadron's W.A.K.E. U.P. project has joined Ocean Project.
WWW.GREATSOUTHBAYSOCIETY.ORG- The Great South Bay Society, is an oganization helping to clean up the south shore waterways. They organize two very large clean- up days each year. Please visit their website for more information. Volunteer, help keep our waterways clean. www.KeepAmericaBeautiful.org Keep America Beautiful believes that each of us holds an obligation to preserve and protect our environment. Through our everyday choices and actions, we collectively have a huge impact on our world. It's really a simple concept, but one with far reaching effects.
Keep America Beautiful follows a practical approach that unites citizens, businesses and government to find solutions that advance our core issues of preventing litter, reducing waste, and beautifying communities.
WWW.OPERATIONSPLASH.ORG - A volunteer, non-profit environmental organization. They provide an on hands approach to cleaning our waterways and protecting the South Shore Estuaries. Sign on to their website to become a member and help keep our waters ways clean.