Tag: amendment 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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Traveling Florida Back Roads: Fort Basinger and the Lockett estate

“Highlands County had the site briefly, but their plan to turn the historic location into a golf course prompted SFWMD to take it back. For now, the site is closed to the public. “
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Then this Happened: Amendment One Lawsuit!

Anything to gag us. Because we elected kings, queens, lords apparently they feel like they have no responsibility towards us
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Stealing amendment 1 money should be a crime.
Stealing amendment 1 money should be a crime. We need an amendment that says if lawmakers do not support our citizen amendments they get charged with a crime. After all it is stealing. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/fred-grimm/article24812611.html Instead, as Craig Pittman and Michael Auslen of the Tampa Bay Times reported, that great pile of Amendment 1 money is…
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Sugar U: Fanjuls some history and a little trouble in Paradise.
Sugar U: Fanjuls. Some history and a little trouble in Paradise. The Fanjul Bro’s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanjul_brothers The Fanjul brothers — Cuban born Alfonso “Alfy” Fanjul, José “Pepe” Fanjul, Alexander Fanjul, and Andres Fanjul — are owners of Fanjul Corp., a vast sugar and real estate conglomerate in the United States and the Dominican Republic. It comprises…
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Sugar U: The US Sugar Corp
@sugarcard2 In a few week we’ll be going to the Sugar Summit that is being put together by our great friends, the Florida SIerra Club. I thought it was a good time to bone up on who’z who and what’s what. Please feel free to chime in. Even at sugarcard2 – we want to hear…
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What can we do about the death of Florida Bay, our water, our river, our eastuaries? Bring me the person in charge!
What can we do about the death of Florida Bay, our water, our river, our estuaries? Feeling frustration? Yes me too. This just in from the keys free press. Why is Rick Scott destroying Florida? http://pdf.keysnews.com/weeklys/freepress.pdf Opinion piece that is in this weeks Florida Keys Free Press at http://pdf.keysnews.com/weeklys/freepress.pdf that reads as follows: Florida Bay…
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Dolphin Ecology Project: Let’s help our Southern IRL Dolphin Family
Dolphin Ecology Project Yesterday, I caught up with Nik Mader of the Dolphin Ecology Project at Paddlefest 2015. We have around 100 resident dolphins in the southern Indian River Lagoon. They live here like we live here. Nik reminds us what happens to the water happens to the Dolphins. So if this happens to us…
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Big Sugar Summit Buy your tickets now
Thanks to the Sierra Club, Florida @SierraClubFL Buy Your Tickets Here Now! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/big-sugar-summit-tickets-16963454148 he Big Sugar Summit will pull the curtain back on the sugar industry. We’ll dig as deep into the muck as we can, in one day, to uncover just how profoundly Big Sugar affects us all. You’ll get the facts regarding the sugar industry’s influence and…
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Get to Know Know Your SFWMD Board of Govenors: Kevin Powers: Friends and Neighbors
@SFWMD http://www.sfwmd.gov/portal/page/portal/xweb%20about%20us/governing%20board “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 the Governor…