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#EVCO2015 Everglades Coalition Annual Conference Key Largo Florida
Cyndi Lenz 21 hrs · Twitter · Sending water south is the most critical thing you can do to prevent sea water rise. #EVCO2015
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Northern Everglades’ Water-“Send it South,” Everglades Coalition’s Annual Conference, SLR/IRL
#cleanitupsenditsouth Jacqui Thurlow-Lippisch The Everglades Coalition is holding its 30th Annual Conference this week in Key Largo. The theme this year is”Send it South.” There are many players in the world of Everglades Restoration politics and policy; today I will briefly talk about the Everglades Coalition (http://evergladescoalition.org), not to be confused with the Everglades Foundation,…
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Save the Halpatiokee wetlands
Please take a moment to watch the video and then sign the petition. Here is the Petition https://www.change.org/p/mr-garett-lips-please-do-not-approve-the-city-of-port-st-lucie-s-request-to-fill-the-halpatiokee-wetlands-for-the-crosstown-parkway-extension?recruiter=57074585&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=share_facebook_responsive&utm_term=des-lg-no_src-custom_msg&utm_content=rp_petition_fb_share_desc%3Acontrol
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2014 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 850 times in 2014. If it were a cable car, it would take about 14 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the…
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Speaking Up to Our Legislative Delegation, St Lucie Rive/Indian River Lagoon
this! Jacqui Thurlow-Lippisch Speak up! Quote… “Give me liberty to know, to utter and to argue freely according to my conscience, above all other liberties.” Milton This coming Monday, December 8th, 2014, at the City of Stuart commission chamber, located at 121 SW Flagler Avenue, from 9-12, it is our turn to speak up to…
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“I Can See the Light!” Moving Water South, SLR/IRL
Jacqui Thurlow-Lippisch Looking at the clouds over the St Lucie River, Roosevelt Bridge, Stuart, Florida. (Photo Jacqui Thurlow-Lipppisch 11-14) “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that…” Martin Luther King, Jr. The situation for the St Lucie River/Indian River Lagoon remains a bleak one, but I am telling you, “I can see the light!”…
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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…
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Lie Down on the Tracks? St Lucie River/Indian River Lagoon
Jacqui Thurlow-Lippisch Railroad Bridge, Stuart Florida. (Photo JTL, 2014.) Classic photo of original wooden trestle bridge over the St Lucie River and train, courtesy of the Historical Society and Sandra H. Thurlow.) Train going over new steel railroad bridge in 1905 before it was double tracked. (Archives of Sandra Henderson Thurlow, Stuart on the St…
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Aerial Tour of October 17th’s Polluted Runoff, C-44, C-23 and C-24 Canals, SLR/IRL
Jacqui Thurlow-Lippisch Plume from canal runoff C-44, C-23 and C-24, October 17, 2014. (All photos Jacqui Thurlow-Lippisch and Ed Lippisch.) Today, I will take you on an air tour, hopefully one of the last of this year’s rainy season. In Florida, rainy season corresponds with hurricane season that lasts June through November. Nonetheless, typically the…
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Historic Mistreatment of the St Lucie River/Indian River Lagoon
Jacqui Thurlow-Lippisch This is a photo of a sewer pipe going straight into the Indian River Lagoon. (Royal Poinciana Cottages, Jensen, ca. 1950 photo courtesy of Sandra Henderson Thurlow.) Changing oil over the IRL, Pitchford Filling Station, Jensen 1920/30s. (Photo courtesy of Thurlow archives.) As bad as things are today for the St Lucie/Indian River…
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