Category: environmental justice

I try to spend a couple of hours every afternoon doing maintenance and repair work at rural Money Island Marina. This is in rural southwest New Jersey, on the Delaware Bay, midway between Cape May at 40 miles to the south and the C&D Canal at 40 miles to the north. Money Island is an…

The first attempt at a recording was a disaster. We don’t have a n internet signal strong enough to record a live presentation. So I had to regroup and plan a different strategy. Episodes will be taped offline using Windows Sound Recorder program or an alternate program for iOS. I will purchase a better microphone.…

Bayshore culture has been dominated by annoying bugs. A local gas station owner who offers bits of local wisdom to visitors says that if not for the bugs, our beaches would be lined with high rise condominiums. We have at least five classes of biting insects. I generally do not notice the bugs. This is…

Tonight I recorded a trailer for a new show, “After the Drowning”. My experience is that a startup show is bound to be loaded with problems and the only way to get through those and improve to a quality product is to just do it. Unfortunately, the video quality was so poor that I trashed…

This has been the #1 big issue for the past decade and it will become larger issue for us in the future. Author Andrew Lewis who wrote the Money Island documentary predicts that eventually only rich people will be able to live at the bayshore. https://sebsnjaesnews.rutgers.edu/2022/11/living-at-the-shore-after-sandy-should-residents-stay-or-go/ We then fill the dangerous shipment to save the…

The environmental law case of State of New Jersey vs. Tony Novak, et. al., CUM-C-17-18 was settled in March 2020 but becasue of pandemic related difficulties within the court, the settlement order was delayed until September 2020 and I received a copy of the court’s settlement order in June 2021. About a decade ago, Baysave…

“There’s more stress in our state in our country that I think any of us have ever seen. This is exactly not the time to be going after each other. The stress levels are overwhelming. I get it.” – Governor Murphy’s comment this week in response to a foul-mouthed Trump supporter abusing his family at…

This week marks four years since winter storm Jonas that brought the most severe flooding in New Jersey in our lifetime. I’ve read anecdotal comments that New York City was “shut down”, and that almost all of Ocean City was flooded. Here at Money Island almost all of our land was underwater on January 23,…