Tag: everglades restoration
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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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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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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.
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What can we do about the death of Florida Bay, our water, our river, our eastuaries? Bring me the person in charge!
What can we do about the death of Florida Bay, our water, our river, our estuaries?
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Get to Know Know Your SFWMD Board of Governors: Rick Barber: Welcome to Waterworld!
SFWMD Board of Govenor’s member Rick Barber.
