Category: clean water
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Big Sugar Summit: Sheila Krumholz, Executive Director, Center for Responsive Politics
Its website, OpenSecrets.org, allows users to track federal campaign contributions and lobbying by lobbying firms, individual lobbyists, industry, federal agency, and bills. Other resources include the personal financial disclosures of all members of the U.S. Congress, the president, and top members of the administration.”
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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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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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Sugar U: Effects of burning sugar cane on your lungs
Burning of Sugar Cane has been documented as harmful for years but no one seems to care.
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BIG SUGAR ENTERTAINMENT or not: Fanjul’s try to control movies, TV, what’s next?
Here are a few documentaries about the sugar industry.
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Unpaid volunteers make choices about our water
www.sfwmd.gov/portal/page/portal/xweb about us/governing board The South Florida Water Management District is directed by nine Governing Board members who set policy for the agency. They reside within the agency’s 16-county region and represent a cross section of interests, including the environment, agriculture, local government, recreation and business. Governing Board members are unpaid citizen volunteers appointed by…
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Call to Action: Ban Fracking in Florida: CRITICAL
Guest blogger today This is from my friend Merrillee Malwitz-Jipson. Call to Action: Ban Fracking in Florida: CRITICAL, please share… Tuesday, March 31, 2015 1:30 pm in Tallahassee. Please make phone calls or attend Senate Environmental Preservation and Conservation Committee. Frack bill, SB 1582 will allow well operators to hide the chemicals they use from the public. Frack…
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Buy the Land! SFWMD Press Conferance
The Protest! Press Conference Video https://twitter.com/cyndilenz/status/576100104899145728 Miami Herald Coverage http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article13799189.html#/tabPane=tabs-b0710947-1-1 Palm Beach Post http://postonpolitics.blog.palmbeachpost.com/2015/03/12/death-mermaid-other-protesters-urge-water-managers-to-buy-u-s-sugar-land/ Prostest after we spoke newspress http://www.news-press.com/story/news/2015/03/12/public-demands-sugar-land-buy-district-meeting/70220354/ sun sentinel http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/palm-beach/fl-everglades-land-buy-protest-20150312-story.html palm beach post http://postonpolitics.blog.palmbeachpost.com/2015/03/12/death-mermaid-other-protesters-urge-water-managers-to-buy-u-s-sugar-land/ nbc2 http://www.nbc-2.com/story/28407006/protesters-picket-outside-south-fla-water-management-district#.VQQYeGZ_ir9 cbs 12 http://www.cbs12.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_24176.shtml
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A River Warrior Gets out the Vote
So here we are on election eve 2014. A while back when I lived in Boca i said I would never be involved in politics again. At the beginning I felt like I was being dragged by wild horses but this never left me. This line by my friend Mary Baum, the Indian Riverkeeper. This…
