Tag: big sugar

• Sierra Club’s Big Sugar Summit a HIT! A Call to Action!

  Sierra Club’s Big Sugar Summit a HIT! A Call to Action! Many thanks to Sierra Club, Florida  for an amazing day and the yummy food. Sierra Club Florida packed a day with every thing we really need to know to begin our journey to be experts on the subject of Big Sugar. You could done…

  Cyndi Lenz

  June 22, 2015

  big sugar, clean water, environmental, everglades, florida, florida legislature, polluton, social reform

  Barretos, big sugar, Brazil, center for responsive politics, Daren Bakst, David Guest, Dr Henrique Cesar Santejo Silveira, Dr. Gail Hollander, earthjustice, environmental and land use, everglades foundation, everglades trust, florida wildlife federation, Frank Jackalone, INstitute for responsible nutrition, Julia Hathaway, manley fuller, mary barley, Miccosukee chair Colley Billie, research fellow in agriculture heritage foundation, richard grosso, shelia krumholtz, stephen e davis, Wolfram ALderson

• 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…

  Cyndi Lenz

  June 20, 2015

  environmental, everglades, clean water, Merrillee Malwitz-Jipson, florida politics

  florida, amendment one, florida legislators, big sugar, thieves, alico

• 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.

  Cyndi Lenz

  June 16, 2015

  clean water, environmental, health

  big sugar, big sugar summit, environmental, everglades, florida, nih, respiratory diseases, sugar cane burning,

• Sugar U: Fanjuls some history and a little trouble in Paradise

  

  Fanjul family history with addemdum on Marco Rubios relationship to them. Marco Rubio hates welfare but apparently loves corporate welfare.

  Cyndi Lenz

  June 14, 2015

  environmental, florida, florida politics

  amendment one, big sugar, clean water, cuba, cyndi lenz, dominican republic, domino, environmental, eye on miami, fanjuls, fidel castro, florida, koch brothers, lake okeechobee, marco rubio

• BIG SUGAR ENTERTAINMENT or not: Fanjul’s try to control movies, TV, what’s next?

  

  Here are a few documentaries about the sugar industry.

  Cyndi Lenz

  June 12, 2015

  clean water, environmental, florida, florida politics, politics

  acasia gum, amy serrano, big sugar, canada, clean water, delray beach film festival, environmental, florida, micael posner, movies, political history, Political History of the Sugar Industry, the price of sugar, the sugar babies

• Throwback Thurs: Cane the TV Show.

  

  Starring Jimmy Smits, this epic drama chronicles the external rivalries and internal power struggles of a large Cuban-American family running an immensely successful rum and sugar business in South Florida.

  Cyndi Lenz

  June 11, 2015

  entertainment, florida

  big sugar, big sugar summit, cane, clean water, environmental, fanjuls, florida, jimmy smits

• ACOE and the Herbert Hoover Dike: We should be up in arms together!

  

  In the minds of the people of the EAA -the coastal elite as they call the people of Martin County want to flood them. Its one of many conspiracy theories pushed by big sugar to keep them isolated. They couldn’t be more wrong. But there does come a day where you say “Believe what ever…

  Cyndi Lenz

  June 10, 2015

  environmental, florida politics, politics

  acoe, army corp of engineers, big sugar, clean water, clewiston, cyndi lenz, deja vu all over again, environmental, everglades restoration, FEMA, florida, Herbert Hoover Dike, indian river lagoon, indian riverkeeper, ring around the rosey, WPBT2

• Our STA 5/6 and their good neighbor US Sugar Corp

  

  Stormwater Treatment Area 5/6 (STA-5/6)tormwater Treatment Areas (STAs) are constructed wetlands designed to aid in Everglades restoration. STAs remove phosphorus from runoff water by channeling it through shallow marshes filled with aquatic plants such as cattail, southern naiad and algae.

  Cyndi Lenz

  June 9, 2015

  environmental, florida, florida politics, politics

  big sugar, bird watching, clean water, congressman patrick murphy, environmental, everglades restoration, florida, florida fish and wildlife, joe negron, sfwmd, sta5/6, us sugar corp

• Sugar U: The US Sugar Corp

  

  I wrote a bunch of Sugar U posts before we all were to attend The Big Sugar Summit which was sponsored by The Sierra Club in Florida. September 1, 2013,we had a rally in Clewiston Florida called the Sugarland Rally. Environmental activists and residents from Florida’s east and west coasts united in a peaceful demonstration…

  Cyndi Lenz

  June 7, 2015

  community, environmental, florida, florida politics, my martin county, my treasure coast, politics

  amendment one, army corp of engineers, big sugar, bubba wade, buy the land, clean water, clewiston, discharges, environmental, everglades restoration, florida, indian river lagoon, judy sanchez, justin riney, lake okeechobee, olive branches, robert coker, send clean water south, sierra club florida, st lucie river, sugarland

• The Uninvited. Barking up the wrong tree.

  

  So, our good friend of the Indian River Lagoon  and awesome blogger Jacqui Thurlow-Lippisch wrote this blog.

  Cyndi Lenz

  June 6, 2015

  community, environmental, florida, florida politics, my martin county, my treasure coast, politics, polluton

  big sugar, buy the land, clean water, everglades, everglades restoration, florida, indian river lagoon, Jacqui Thurlow-Lippisch, south florida water management, uninvited, wrong number