Tag: everglades restoration
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New digs! Follow me there!

I just put this page together and it’s in it infancy. I’m so sick of all the propaganda and thuggery. On all sides. I’m sick of peoples egos getting in the way. So please follow me here/ Treasure Coast Free Press I’m also the Editor of Treasurecoast.com I’m having a blast over there. We reworked…
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Free Treasure Coast Thanksgiving Dinners
Last year I didn’t have the energy to drive to Orlando so I stayed home and spent the day with Pastor Guy at Jensen Beach Christian Church and helped to serve and eat Thanksgiving Dinner. I did the same thing the first year I lived here serving at another church. It was a great experience.…
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New Poll: Florida Legislators Reading List. PLEASE VOTE! and why reading matters.
A few weeks ago I put out a call for books that people thought would be good for our Florida Legislators to read. I got a great response. Thank you all so much. I put up my poll. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for the 27 people who cared and took the…
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Help Save the Everglades from more destruction, STOP ROGG (River of Grass Greenway).
Please sign the petition! (Even if you don’t live here you could visit) https://www.change.org/p/help-save-the-everglades-from-more-destruction-stop-rogg-river-of-grass-greenway Please share this page! Published on Jun 26, 2015 “These are all images from the ROGG plan that look to be on the path that will be removed. Please sign the petition we have on Change.org to stop this project. https://www.change.org/search?q=rogg…
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Big Sugar Summit: Keynote Address: Chairman Colley Billie, Miccosukee Tribe

So honored that Chairman Collie Billie came and he was the keynote speaker at the Big Sugar Summit.
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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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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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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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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…
