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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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.
