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
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. http://blog.nmai.si.edu/main/2014/02/meet-native-america-colley-billie.html Meet Chairman Collie Billie “I would like to take this opportunity to bring attention to the plight of the Florida Everglades in the hopes of inciting…
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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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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…
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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.
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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…
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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.
