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Regenerating New York Harbor, One Billion Oysters at a Time

December 13, 2019 โ€” When Hurricane Sandy struck New York on October 29, 2012, it deluged every neighborhood it hit. Seven years later, many neighborhoodsโ€”including Coney Island, Canarsie in Brooklyn, and points all along the shore of Staten Islandโ€”are still recovering. Others, such as Staten Islandโ€™s Fox Beach, were destroyed in their entirety, never to have residents again.

With these events in all too recent memory, New Yorkers know how susceptible they are to climate change and are at the forefront of developing new approaches to the climate crisis, with the cityโ€™s young people getting especially involved. As the recent youth climate strikes that brought hundreds of thousands to New Yorkโ€™s streets attest, the younger generationsโ€”those who will be most affected by climate changeโ€”are taking concrete steps to try to turn back the tide, quite literally.

One of the programs that is engaging youth is the Billion Oyster Project. While the projectโ€™s founding goal aimed to to make the โ€œwaters surrounding New York City cleaner, more abundant, more well-known, more well-loved,โ€ it has a more pressing role in the time of accelerating climate change: creating oyster reefs that can help blunt storm surges that accompany hurricanes by breaking up the waves before they hit land.

Read the full story at Civil Eats

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