Tag: environmental
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Squirrels ate my internet
Last Christmas my kids gave me a bird feeder guaranteed to keep out squirrels. I’ve had load of birds most notible the woodpecker that comes to procreate every year. I filled it up and hung it on a tree and off I went. When I returned it was hanging by a rope and the rope…
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What will Martin County Become?
I moved here to Martin County six years ago. I literally was running away from Palm Beach County. The whole place was closing in on me. The people, the traffic, the constant building way, way out to the Everglades, the traffic. I had driven up here for years for work. I even came up after…
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My Martin County: Ground Floor Farm
My Martin County: Ground Floor Farm This is where I went on my Black Friday. Ground Floor Farm is our local urban farm. In 2014 they raised over 20,000 with a kick starter campaign with 144 backers. This is the Martin County I love. People with wonderful ideas interact with the community. Together the community…
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How to dispose of unwanted medications
How to dispose of unwanted medications. This is a huge issue. It’s HUGE! Not only is it an issue for us, our St Lucie River and Indian River Lagoon but its an issue everywhere people flush their medications down the toilet. This is also true for your pet’s medication. This is true for all medication.…
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Victory
Victory Loggerhead turtles hanging on the back of a truck waiting to be returned to the ocean after their rehab at Loggerhead Marine Life Center in Juno, Florida. Over 30 years ago, long-time Juno Beach resident Eleanor Fletcher started what is now Loggerhead Marinelife Center. Eleanor and her husband Robert had a real estate business…
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The very funny local Liberty Caucus. Striped men in tights.
The very funny local Liberty Caucus. Yesterday I had to laugh because if I just had clean water I probably wouldn’t even be sitting here on my day off computing. I would be in the water. Yesterday after I posted my blog I was having a conversation with my friend Kenny Hinkle and between the…
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Throwback Thurs: What was penny a pound and make the polluter pay?
Throwback Thurs: What was penny a pound and make the polluter pay? As always, if you have something to add please add it. What was penny a pound? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restoration_of_the_Everglades “Restoration of the Everglades, however, briefly became a bipartisan cause in national politics. A controversial penny-a-pound (2 cent/kg) tax on sugar was proposed to fund some…
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SFWMD: ” You’ve been part of a propaganda campaign! ” US “hahahahah”
@SFWMD @PetersonMelanie SFWMD: You’ve been part of a propaganda campaign” Thank you Kenny Hinkle for this great video. This is great work. Last Thursday SFWMD voted to terminate the 46,000 acre option on the sugar lands where our reservoir was suppose to go. You know the one that was going clean and convey…
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Post Earth Day Press Conferance (Video) Stuart FL April 29
Press Advisory STUART EVENT: Contact Cara Capp, (305) 546-6689, cara@evergladescoalition.org, Mark Perry, 772-486-3858, mperry@floridaocean.org CAPTIVA EVENT: Contact David Jensen, 239-470-5389, dave@gocaptiva.com; Rae Ann Wessel, 239-246-0100, rawessel@sccf.org Two Coasts, One Message: Buy the Land Now Rallies to support State Senator Joe Negron for his efforts to open the door to a sugar land purchase and call…
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