Category: clean water
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Throwback Thurs: What was penny a pound and make the polluter pay?
Throwback Thurs: What was penny a pound and make the polluter pay? As always, if you have something to add please add it. What was penny a pound? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restoration_of_the_Everglades “Restoration of the Everglades, however, briefly became a bipartisan cause in national politics. A controversial penny-a-pound (2 cent/kg) tax on sugar was proposed to fund some…
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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…
