Category: big sugar
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Joshua Gone Barbados, Still Big Sugar! Will it ever end?
Eric Von Schmidt was a Fulbright Scholar who made his living as a graphic artist, illustrator and painter. He was also a musician who was a central figure at the 1960’s folk revival, Cambridge Massachusetts, where his musical knowledge and abilities influenced other musicians like Tom Rush and Bob Dylan. “Joshua Gone Barbados” was one…
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River Science: Lesson 1 The C44 Reservoir
River Science: Lesson 1 The C44 Reservoir Guest video blogger: Kenny Hinkle Jr Here’s a little science lesson by my talented friend Kenny Hinkle Jr. from over at Bullsugar.
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H2 Worker Documentary. Legal Slavery.
H2 Worker Documentary. Legal Slavery. Here is your music! To everyone running for President: Tonight I watched this incredible documentary by Stephanie Black. Before they had harvesting machines every year people 10,000 Caribbean men were selectivity chosen by American sugar corporations to harvest sugar cane for six months in Florida under temporary “H2” visas. They…
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Atrazine: It brings bad things to life!
We spent a lot of time talking about the discharges to our rivers from Lake O. We talked fertilizer. We have a fertilizer ban. We really don’t talk about pesticides and herbicides and they are everywhere. Invisible to us. Today I want to talk about Atrazine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrazine “Atrazine is a herbicide of the triazine class.…
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Florida! Let the Good Times Roll!
“*SEVEN MONTHS OF DRINKING WATER: The amount of Lake Okeechobee water drained east and west and out to sea was enough to supply about seven months of drinking water for the nearly seven million people in Palm Beach County, Broward County, Miami-Dade County and the Florida Keys. Water plants in southeast Florida churn out about…
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Big Sugar Summit: Sheila Krumholz, Executive Director, Center for Responsive Politics
Big Sugar Summit: Sheila Krumholz, Executive Director, Center for Responsive Politics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Responsive_Politics “The Center for Responsive Politics (CRP) is a non-profit, nonpartisan research group based in Washington, D.C. that tracks the effects of money and lobbying on elections and public policy. It maintains a public online database of its information. Its website, OpenSecrets.org, allows users to…
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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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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: 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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