Tag: clean water
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Big Sugar Summit: Richard Grosso, Environmental Legal Eagle!
Richard Grosso is Director, Environmental and Land Use Law Clinic. Shepard Broad Law Center, Nova Southeastern University.
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Big Sugar Summit: Dr Gail Hollander, “Raising Cane in the Glades.”
Dr Gail Hollander is an Associate Professor of Geography, Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies, Florida International University. She is the author of “Raising Cane in the Glades: The Global Sugar Trade and the Transformation of Florida.
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Who owns U.S. Sugar?
US Sugar are convicted Felons” said Barley. “They plead guilty to knowingly putting hazardous waste in the water. In our water. Then backpumping it back into Lake Okeechobee. ” “Why should we allow convicted criminals to buy our politicians?”
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Throwback Thurs: What was penny a pound and make the polluter pay?
A controversial penny-a-pound (2 cent/kg) tax on sugar was proposed to fund some of the necessary changes to be made to help decrease phosphorus and make other improvements to water.
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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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Stealing amendment 1 money should be a crime
The $13.65 million will bail out agricultural outfits like Alico, with major Florida holdings in citrus, ranching, farming and the very lucrative operations known as “water farming.” Alico is the largest of landowners around Lake Okeechobee paid to store water behind earth berms, meant to keep it from exacerbating the problems of the polluted estuaries…
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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.
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SFWMD: Dirty toilets affront to citizens.
Went to stormwater treatment area 5/6 and there was a bathroom and the bathroom was filled with spiders.
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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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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.
