restoration reef i want to take a moment to thank fidelity for sponsoring this episode fidelity's climate action fund allows people to invest their money in companies that are taking action against the impacts of climate change not only does this help support businesses with sustainable practices it allows investors to rest easy knowing their money is helping the planet and inspiring change head over to URL_TOKEN to learn more about sustainable investing with the climate action fund now back to the episode and pulled up a test cage to show me how oysters grow off of shells yeah so here's a great example of of look at this great clam worm here you're gonna come out and see us no wow right so how many oysters are on that one shell like how many live oysters one two three four five six seven eight these adults are big enough to breed uh which is what we want right so we want enough adult oysters in the harbor so that they can start to breed in the harbor and that the babies the larva will find their way back to the reef and cement again to the reef so yeah these are great beautiful beautiful big oysters throughout the summer the billion oyster project and their volunteers restore the oysters to the harbor so far they've done reef restoration projects in NUMBER_TOKEN areas across the five boroughs today they've collected an impressive NUMBER_TOKEN million pounds of oyster shells and have introduced NUMBER_TOKEN million oysters to the harbor but their work is nowhere near done about NUMBER_TOKEN billion gallons of sewage are still released into new york harbor each year and humans will not be able to eat oysters out of new york waterways in our lifetime i'm so grateful to the good people at billion oyster project and lighthouse for opening up their doors to us they're doing such amazing work right here in new york to restore new york's harbors and i just absolutely love this local solution for a local problem if you want to support the work of billion oyster project in new york check out their website where they got a list of all the restaurant partners that they work with and next time you're eating oysters at one of those restaurants you'll know you're doing something good for new york's harbors that's all for this episode thank you so much for watching and we'll see you next time bye
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN want to take a moment to thank fidelity for sponsoring this episode fidelity's climate action fund allows people to invest their money in companies that are taking action against the impacts of climate change not only does this help support businesses with sustainable practices it allows investors to rest easy knowing their money is helping the planet and inspiring change head over to URL_TOKEN to learn more about sustainable investing with the climate action fund now back to the episode END_SPONSOR_TOKEN