Sustainable East End looks at issues of land and energy use, water resources, transportation and the food industries on the north and south forks of Long Island with host Francesca Rheannon.
It airs on the 2nd Thursday each month at 12 Noon
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November 8, 2012
Today we talk with two people who have devoted their lives to looking at the survival of the the ocean around us and the fish that help to sustain our east end economy.
Our guests are Susan Rockefeller, film maker and member of the board of the international organization Oceana devoted to ocean conservation and Carl Safina of the Blue Ocean Institute.
We talked with Susan this fall as her film Mission of Mermaids: A love letter to the ocean, debuted at the Hamptons International Film Festival in East Hampton.
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September 13, 2012
Ruben Bess Valdez talks about the Shinnecock Shellfish Hatchery and pollution of the bays.
The people of the Shinnecock Indian Nation have been harvesting
shellfish from the waters of what is now Southampton for millennia.
Tony Ernst, Sustainable East End co-producer talks with Ruben
Bess Valdez, of the Shinnecock Shellfish Hatchery about the
challanges to developing the oyster business in the face of increasing
pollution of the waters surrounding the reservation.
More information about the Shinnecock Nation and the shellfish hatchery is available at www.shinnecocknation.org/trustees-corner
Sustainable East End is produced by Gwynn Schroeder, Tony Ernst and the program host, Francesca Rheannon.
from shinnecocknation.org:
Shinnecock Shellfish Hatcheries
Back in the 1980’s, the Shinnecock Indian Nation ran a Tribally owned and operated shellfish hatchery which was successful for approximately 10 years, until much of Long Island was adversely affected by the Brown Tide that devastated much of the shellfish industry on the Island. The building from which this Tribal economic development project ran also was one of the first solar paneled buildings on Long Island and was noted for its high-energy efficiency. In the summer of 2004, a small group of determined Shinnecock Tribal Members decided it was time to reassess and evaluate the possibility of beginning a new shellfish hatchery based on re-seeding of the Shinnecock Bay with oyster spawn. With initial funding from the Long Island Community Foundation, and later on the Horace Hagedorn Foundation, Kraft Environmental Family Fund and finally, the Administration for Native Americans (ANA) DHHS, Washington, D.C., the Hatchery was re-born. Today, the Bay has produced thousands of succulent and healthy oysters as well as clams and other shellfish. With pending funding requests, there is a lucrative market for the Shinnecock shellfish whereby once re-established and operational will provide the Nation with a self-sustaining and culturally relevant source of Tribal income. In addition to being a source of economic development, the Hatchery will contain an environmental component of educating Shinnecock and non-Native students alike to the important field of aquaculture and related sciences
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August 9, 2012
Host Francesca Rheannon talks with Bridgehampton restaurateur Bruce Buschel about his concept of serving ‘sustainable organic locally sourced food.
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June 14, 2012
On the third program in the series we talk with Peconic Baykeeper Kevin McAllister about contamination of groundwater, bays and estuaries on the east end by our household septic systems.
Environmental activist Gwynn Schroeder of Cutchogue joins the program along with producers Francesca Rheannon and Tony Ernst.
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On the May 10 program we talk with East Hampton’s ‘Green Architect’ Bill Chaleff about his work, issues of land use, town planning, affordable housing and pollution of the east end’s water supply and its effect on the fishing industry.
