Category: environmental justice
-
A first time media campaign
In planning for the next step in moving Money Island forward, I met with members of state legislature and local government. We have a plan to work together. The top legal strategist in the group suggested that I crate a media campaign in parallel to the legal efforts. That sounds great, but I have never…
-
Local adaptation to human caused climate change
When the first scientific data published in linked rising temperatures across the world to the burning of fossil fuels and increased atmospheric CO₂ it was met with skepticism. That’s a good thing. We should always be highly critical of and test all scientific theories. Since then, 99.9% of 88,125 climate-related studies from 2012 to 2020…
-
A Love of Electric Boating
(The Long Road to New Jersey’s First Electric Boating Center)by Tony Novak My earliest memories include boating with my dad, his father, and my brother. We were a working-class, single-income family, so we didn’t get out on the water often. By age 21, I had my first small aluminum electric-powered boat with a friend, and…
-
Zen and the art of marina maintenance
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…
-
2nd trailer for After the Drowning podcast
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.…
-
Try that in a small town
I already know what happens when you “try that in a small town”. I faced the bigotry, the rumors, the accusations that I was a drug dealer because I didn’t leave the house to drive to work in the morning, the assumption what I won the lottery because I had money, the legal accusations where…
-
“Never underestimate the bugs”
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…
-
Trailer for “After the Drowning” show
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…
-
“Assessing Inequities in Shore Communities: Who Stays and Who Leaves?”
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…
-
An environmental legal defense legal strategy that worked!
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…