Author: Cyndi Lenz
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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. Science Guy!
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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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Throwback Thurs: What was penny a pound and make the polluter pay?
A controversial penny-a-pound (2 cent/kg) tax on sugar was proposed to fund some of the necessary changes to be made to help decrease phosphorus and make other improvements to water.
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Our Fairy Godmother Mary Barley
Fairy Godmothers are magically-gifted women who monitor magical forces across the kingdoms. Whenever events are right for a fairy tale to recur, the relevant Fairy Godmother steps in to make sure that the tale in question runs its course with as few fatalities as possible.
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Then this Happened: Amendment One Lawsuit!
Anything to gag us. Because we elected kings, queens, lords apparently they feel like they have no responsibility towards us
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Sierra Club’s Big Sugar Summit a HIT! A Call to Action!
Saturday was was our associate degrees in Big Sugar. Now we need to work towards our BS, MS and PHD.
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Stealing amendment 1 money should be a crime
The $13.65 million will bail out agricultural outfits like Alico, with major Florida holdings in citrus, ranching, farming and the very lucrative operations known as “water farming.” Alico is the largest of landowners around Lake Okeechobee paid to store water behind earth berms, meant to keep it from exacerbating the problems of the polluted estuaries…
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Sugar: It’s Killing US!
When it comes to evaluating sugar’s negative health impacts, the threat of extra pudge is just the beginning. Even great health threats—including inflammation-based diseases—may lurk at the bottom of the sugar bowl.
