Foundation

The archive

What was recorded, in the form it was recorded. Nothing here plays on its own.

The United Nations, 20 January 2016

Address to the United Nations, 20 January 2016

Gregory Sarno presents the case for nature-assisted shoreline recovery to a United Nations audience on 20 January 2016.

The Foundation

Beach Recovery Foundation exists to make coastal restoration visible. The engineering happens underwater, over years, in places most people never see. Our work is to document it, exhibit it, teach it, and keep the record honest.

That work runs in four parts:

Film — documentary production, including Saving Bù, recording what returns to a shoreline once it is allowed to rebuild.

Public art — the canvases carried by the nearshore structures, and the artists who make them.

Education and archive — the photographic record, the field documentation, and the material behind twenty years of shoreline.

Membership and events — the people who fund the work and the gatherings that bring them to it.

The Foundation does not design or install coastal systems. The Beach Recovery System is engineered and installed by Basalt International. We document, exhibit, and advocate.

Film and time-lapse

Time-lapse: the shoreline rebuilding itself.

A single stretch of coast, recorded over time as sand is captured and the beach profile returns.

How it began.

The origins of the work, in the founder's own account.

The look book

The Basalt International Shoreline Recovery & Protection Systems proof of concept, page by page: named sites, dated photography, the permitting pathway and independent engineering review.