Habits and Habitats

Boulders swing like a pendulum do, I find it fascinating, so do you.

But it’s noisy and messy and in places…stinky. It’s a different life for us these days.

Our Long Beach shore is besieged with banging and clanging, rumbling and grumbling. Yeah, it’s the sound of our shore being renovated. It’s costly but needed to help "mitigate" the surge of the sea when a storm comes to town.

Of course it’s really a band aid when you look at the big picture. The groins are being rebuilt, the berms will be built, but it’s the climate change that is the real issue to be dealt with. In the meantime we play the cards we are dealt, right here in Long Beach.

Long Beach IS dealing with the both the big climate change and local issues as a model for all communities to follow. It has been designated a clean energy community gaining this designation for fast tracking solar permits, free to homeowners. It instituted energy efficient street lighting and improved building energy use. And it is eligible to receive $100,000 toward sustainable projects.

It also recently began it’s bring your own bag to the supermarket program. Our City by the Sea will benefit from this bag program by reducing a source of litter. But most importantly so will our shorebirds benefit.

The beach renovation will be a challenge to all of us to live with.

But our wildlife is also struggling at the local battle line of man against sea. Especially the oystercatchers.

Let me show you their plight...and their fight:

https://leebythesea.me/2017/04/27/habits-and-habitats/

Be well,
Leebythesea