Author: Cyndi Lenz
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Big Sugar Summit: Daren Bakst, Heritage Foundation
@PatrickMurphyFL @Heritage @darenbakst Big Sugar Summit: Daren Bakst, Heritage Foundation Daren Bakst is a Research Fellow In Agricultural Policy, Institute for Economic Freedom and Opportunity at the Heritage Foundation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heritage_Foundation “The Heritage Foundation is an American conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C. The foundation took a leading role in the conservative movement during the…
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Happy 4th of July!
Happy 4th of July everyone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day_%28United_States%29 “Independence Day of the United States, also referred to as Fourth of July or July Fourth in the U.S., is a federal holiday commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, by the Continental Congress declaring that the thirteen American colonies regarded themselves as a…
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Big Sugar Summit: Wolfram Alderson “Sugar is Toxic “
Big Sugar Summit: Wolfram Alderson “Sugar is Toxic ” “The only food item that isn’t on the label is added sugar.” Wolfram Alderson, Founding Executive Director, Institute for Responsible Nutrition I’m looking forward to the final video with all the slides but this will get you really excited about seeing the entire finished product. This…
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Big Sugar Summit: Julia Hathaway, Is Big Sugar Burning Your Lungs?
Big Sugar Summit: Julia Hathaway, Is Big Sugar Burning Your Lungs? Here is our amazing friend Julia Hathaway at the Big Sugar Summit! I learned so much from her speech and now I know all the things that can be done with sugar cane if it is green harvested. Brazil and Australia do it! We…
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Big Sugar Summit: Keynote Address: Chairman Colley Billie, Miccosukee Tribe
Big Sugar Summit: Keynote Address: Chairman Colley Billie, Miccosukee Tribe So honored that Chairman Collie Billie came and he was the keynote speaker at the Big Sugar Summit. http://blog.nmai.si.edu/main/2014/02/meet-native-america-colley-billie.html Meet Chairman Collie Billie “I would like to take this opportunity to bring attention to the plight of the Florida Everglades in the hopes of inciting…
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Big Sugar Summit: Richard Grosso, Environmental Legal Eagle!
Big Sugar Summit: Richard Grosso, Environmental Legal Eagle! Richard Grosso is Director, Environmental and Land Use Law Clinic. Shepard Broad Law Center, Nova Southeastern University. http://evergladeslaw.org/about/history/ History of The Everglades Law Center Our Beginning “In 1990, a small group of law professors and lawyers created the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Center, Inc. to establish…
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Big Sugar Summit: Stephen E. Davis III PHD, Wetland Ecologist. Science Guy!
Big Sugar Summit: Stephen E. Davis III PHD, Wetland Ecologist, The Everglades Foundation This presentation will available thru the Sierra Club, Florida in full with all the slides. So enjoy this preview. http://www.evergladesfoundation.org/what-we-do/science/ “The Foundation employs a team of scientists to serve as technical expert sources for the environmental community. These resources include providing sworn…
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Traveling Florida Back Roads: Fort Basinger and the Lockett estate
“Highlands County had the site briefly, but their plan to turn the historic location into a golf course prompted SFWMD to take it back. For now, the site is closed to the public. “
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Big Sugar Summit: Dr Gail Hollander, “Raising Cane in the Glades.”
Dr Gail Hollander is an Associate Professor of Geography, Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies, Florida International University. She is the author of “Raising Cane in the Glades: The Global Sugar Trade and the Transformation of Florida.
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Who owns U.S. Sugar?
US Sugar are convicted Felons” said Barley. “They plead guilty to knowingly putting hazardous waste in the water. In our water. Then backpumping it back into Lake Okeechobee. ” “Why should we allow convicted criminals to buy our politicians?”
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