Environment

Welcome to the NYC environment page. Our marine environment is rich in diversity and challenges. As boaters, we all impact that environment. We hope to help make that impact a little more positive by providing information on greener boating.

Please consider how you can reduce your footprint in all your boating adventures, and land based ones too.

Below you will find various articles that have been published in the Logline about our environment and how to help keep it clean. It can be used as a reference guide to better boating and resources available to that end.

Reference Articles

CHANGING YOUR OIL

A few thoughts on changing the oil in your boat engine without creating a toxic mess.
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Meatless Mondays

Green Marine - Meatless Mondays: Originally started during WWII to help keep rationing reasonable and was revived in 2003 in an effort to reduce the effect that meat eating has on the environment.
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Boat Cleaners

What cleaners are effective, green, and available?
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Global Climate Change part 1

What does it all mean and how does it affect me?
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Global Climate Change part 2

What does it all mean and how does it affect me?
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Heat and Humidity

What do I do to keep my boat mold free this winter without using too much power
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Holding Tank Pump Outs

How does the NPA pump out system work and where is it?
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Otter Control

What you are doing might be breaking the law.
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Holding Tank Pump Outs - where are they

What to do to reduce the amount of black water pumped into the strait
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Recycling after Christmas (or anytime)

What to do with all that Christmas stuff
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REDUCE, reuse then recycle

Recycling is the least important of the 3 Rs.
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