Billion Oyster Project is a New York City-based nonprofit organization with the goal of engaging one million people in the effort to restore one billion oysters to New York Harbor by 2035. Because oysters are filter feeders, they serve as a natural water filter, with a number of beneficial effects for the ecosystem.[1] The reefs they form increase habitat and subsequent marine biodiversity levels,[2] and help protect the city's shorelines from storm surges.[3]
Billion Oyster Project believes that engaging community members — especially young people — in reef restoration will lead them to become more environmentally aware in the future. The project aims to engage hundreds of thousands of students, teachers, and community scientists in marine restoration-based STEM educational programming. It involves 60+ restaurants in an oyster shell recycling program,[4] which provides the project with shells for building new reefs.
The project grew out of the activities of students at the New York Harbor School, currently located on Governors Island, who started growing and restoring oysters in New York Harbor in 2008. The school continues to be the project’s main educational partnership - involving students through internships and waterfront experience in seven Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs.[5] Along with Harbor School, Billion Oyster Project is stationed on Governors Island and the scope of their work is confined to the five boroughs of New York City.[6]
BillionOysterProject is a New York City-based nonprofit organization with the goal of engaging one million people in the effort to restore one billion...
BillionOysterProject aims to seed oysters by supply breeding oysters to build viable oyster reefs within the breakwater system. The BillionOyster Project...
Greenwave, the BillionOysterProject and World Surf League's PURE campaign as well as on the advisory boards for the Environmental Voter Project, the Simons...
Examples include the European flat oyster, eastern oyster, Olympia oyster, Pacific oyster, and the Sydney rock oyster. Ostreidae evolved in the Early Triassic...
Freshkills Park New York Harbor Storm-Surge Barrier East Shore Seawall BillionOysterProject Sawing-off of Manhattan Island "Below Fourteenth Street on Viele...
has influenced restoration ecology initiatives in the region. The BillionOysterProject aims to restore the estuary to its state in 1609. Kimmelman, Michael...
year-round tenants, which also includes BillionOysterProject, an organization to restore New York Harbor's oyster population and biodiversity; the Urban...
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Route 135 (Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway) on Long Island to Interstate 287 in Westchester County. It would cost between $12 and $16 billion and would not be...
across its underground lines. Passenger convenience systems, such as the Oyster card and contactless payments, were also provisioned around this time. During...
install Oyster. Doherty predicted that the Oyster market has a £50 billion potential. There are also many disadvantages to using a device like the Oyster: The...
It is expected to cost $1.5 billion. Construction was slated to begin at the end of that year. BillionOysterProject Freshkills Park Vision 2020: New...
created in 2004 now house 180 million native oysters, Crassostrea virginica, which is far fewer than the billions that once existed. In 2009 the Chesapeake...
secretive project—Project Vivian—to counsel its employees and to discourage them from forming unions. Google reportedly paid Apple a staggering $22 billion in...
laws. The construction of the island caused damages to coral reefs and oyster populations. The boundaries of the environmental protection area around...
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covered by passenger fares. The Travelcard ticket was introduced in 1983 and Oyster card, a contactless ticketing system, in 2003. Contactless bank card payments...
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$4 billion acquisition of Allied in December 2008 "has been successful from the start", delivering at the high end of the annual savings projected when...
contributed massively to the finance of the project. At completion in 1997, costs were set on 8.2 billion guilder. Nevertheless, in 2012 the total costs...
Google stated that Project Ara was being designed to be utilized by "6 billion people": 1 billion current smartphone users, and 5 billion feature phone users...
used as the actual code names of the 1.0 and 1.1 releases of the OS. The project manager, Ryan Gibson, conceived using a confectionery-themed naming scheme...
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