Category: environmental
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Lakepointe and the Pacific Legal Foundation

When it looks like a duck, and walks like duck, quacks like a duck it’s a duck. Or in this case a big polluting rubber ducky.
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H2 Worker Documentary. Legal Slavery.

“If we didn’t have the Jamaicans it wouldn’t get harvested because the local people wouldn’t do it.” One of the sugar field managers said. They were essential jailed. Brought from the barrack to the bus to the field to bus to the barrack and not being allowed to leave. They got paid one dollar and…
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Summer Book Club: Paving Paradise Florida’s Vanishing Wetlands and Failure of no Net Loss

Paving Paradise Florida’s Vanishing Wetlands and Failure of no Net Loss by Craig Pittman and Matthew Waite.
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When will our medical community step and do something about people getting sick and dying in the Indian River Lagoon

When will our medical community step and do something about people getting sick and dying in the Indian River Lagoon?
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Atrazine: It brings bad things to life!

“Atrazine is a herbicide of the triazine class. Atrazine is used to prevent pre- and postemergence broadleaf weeds in crops such as maize (corn) and sugarcane and on turf, such as golf courses and residential lawns. It is one of the most widely used herbicides in US]
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Sea Level Rise in Miami and Politics. Let’s just say no to the “deniers.”

So what do we do when the people running are OUT OF TOUCH WITH REALITY? Do we vote for these people even though they are in your party? Don’t we help our own friends that are out of touch with reality?
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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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Water Inc: The Water Story of Bolivia. Aqua Para Todos

What do you even know about Bolivia? I know this: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid may or may not have died there.
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Water Inc: The Privatization of Water

We need to stop reacting. We need to be proactive. In order to do this we need to be educated. In order to understand the future we need to understand the past.
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Florida Back Roads: Kissimmee River Restoration

The Kissimmee River arises in Osceola County as the outflow from East Lake Tohopekaliga, passing through Lake Tohopekaliga, Lake Cypress, Lake Hatchineha and Lake Kissimmee. Below Lake Kissimmee, the river forms the boundary between Osceola County and Polk County, between Highlands County and Okeechobee County, and between Glades County and Okeechobee County before it flows…