Tag: environmental
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Make the calls to buy the land!

River advocates call their legislator to buy the land to build the reservoir.
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Bad Actors hired by Tea party for fake Protest at SFWMD!

History Lesson: You know when people say someone is a paid actor and we roll our eyes. In this case it was true!
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Throwback Thurs: Toxic River. Will it be deja vu all over again?

History Lesson: n this post is a video called “Toxic Rivers” that I made from headlines mostly and I sent it to our elected officials when the River Warriors went to DC.
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Florida Legislature Steals Amendment One Money

It’s been 10 years since Floridians overwhelmingly passed a ballot measure to generate upward of $1 billion annually for land conservation until 2035. The Florida Wildlife Federation (FWF) and other state conservation groups noticed immediate misallocation of these critical funds and began a long legal battle with the Florida legislature in 2015.
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Attention Congressman Patrick Murphy! Bring us Attorney General Eric Holder!

Keri West, River Warrior extraordinaire and fellow documenter asks our Congressman at the time, Patrick Murphy to bring the US Attorney General because honestly we could not believe what was being done. There is permanent damage from the Toxic discharges to the Indian RIver Lagoon and the State of Florida has been negligent to our…
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Representative Steve Crisafulli We need to buy the land.

This is the story of the myth of Death Mermaid and how she showed up to Hamilton Disston. She also showed up in 1969 to help kill the Everglades Jetport and later at SFWMD to help stop the discharges.
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Kevin Powers “We’re your best friends!” us “hahahahahaaaa”

When Kevin Powers told us SFWMD was our best friends and we all laughed. Why? Because they took their direction from Governor Rick Scott and he did everything he could to deflect the issue. He was seemingly ok with the destruction of the most biodiverse estuary in North America.
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The Murder of the Indian River Lagoon and St Lucie RIver

The recently released water study by the University of Florida states that even if all of the planned projects north of the lake are completed we will still have so much phosphorus in the lake that we won’t be able to do anything but discharge it into the coastal estuaries in wet years.
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We Demand you stop the discharges to the Northern ESTUARIES

Like everything else in this movement something that started off to save our Indian RIver Lagoon morphed into saving Caloosahatchee River, saving the Everglades, and saving the water of South Florida.
