Tag: lake okeechobee

• 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…

  Cyndi Lenz

  September 26, 2015

  books, clean water, environmental, everglades, florida, florida legislature, florida politics, my martin county, polls, reading, wordpress, writing101

  craing pittman, everglades restoration, florida, florida legislators, lake okeechobee, martin county, Matthew Waite, michael grunwald, Paving Paridise; Florida’s Vanishing Wetlands and the Failure of No Net Loss., send clean water south, st lucie river, stuart, the swamp

• Florida! Let the Good Times Roll!

  

  “*SEVEN MONTHS OF DRINKING WATER: The amount of Lake Okeechobee water drained east and west and out to sea was enough to supply about seven months of drinking water for the nearly seven million people in Palm Beach County, Broward County, Miami-Dade County and the Florida Keys. Water plants in southeast Florida churn out about…

  Cyndi Lenz

  July 30, 2015

  army corp of engineers, big sugar, clean water, environmental, everglades, florida, florida legislature

  acasia gum, alan farago, army corp of engineers, big sugar, clean water, drinking water, everglades, florida, lake okeechobee, miami-dade, palm beach county

• HERBERT HOOVER DIKE REHABILITATION STRUCTURE REPLACEMENT

  

  The Herbert Hoover Dike is expected to fail.

  Cyndi Lenz

  July 19, 2015

  environmental

  army corp of engineers, clean water, culvert 10-a, environmental, florida, Herbert Hoover Dike, lake okeechobee, river of light

• 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.

  Cyndi Lenz

  June 25, 2015

  clean water, environmental, florida, florida politics

  army corp of engineers, big sugar, big sugar summit, buy the land, clean water, discharges, environmental, everglades coalition meeting 2015, everglades foundation, everglades restoration, everglades trust, florida, florida legislators, lake okeechobee, send clean water south

• Sugar U: Fanjuls some history and a little trouble in Paradise

  

  Fanjul family history with addemdum on Marco Rubios relationship to them. Marco Rubio hates welfare but apparently loves corporate welfare.

  Cyndi Lenz

  June 14, 2015

  environmental, florida, florida politics

  amendment one, big sugar, clean water, cuba, cyndi lenz, dominican republic, domino, environmental, eye on miami, fanjuls, fidel castro, florida, koch brothers, lake okeechobee, marco rubio

• 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…

  Cyndi Lenz

  June 7, 2015

  community, environmental, florida, florida politics, my martin county, my treasure coast, politics

  amendment one, army corp of engineers, big sugar, bubba wade, buy the land, clean water, clewiston, discharges, environmental, everglades restoration, florida, indian river lagoon, judy sanchez, justin riney, lake okeechobee, olive branches, robert coker, send clean water south, sierra club florida, st lucie river, sugarland

• Michael Grunwald at the Elliot Museum

  

  Author Michael Grunwald speaks at the Elliot Museum in Stuart, Florida to a sold out crowd.

  Cyndi Lenz

  May 14, 2015

  environmental, my martin county

  amendment one, big sugar, buy the land, clean water, discharges, environmental, everglades coalition meeting 2015, everglades restoration, florida, florida legislators, green toxic algae, indian river lagoon, lake okeechobee, michael grunwald, northern eastuary, send clean water south, st lucie river

• Green Toxic Algae. Poison Poised and ready to kill us.

  

  9/23/2026 Even nowLake Okeechobee following water sample tests that detected harmful cyanobacteria toxins.

  Cyndi Lenz

  May 2, 2015

  environmental, florida, my martin county

  army corp of engineers, buy the land, clean water, congressman patrick murphy, environmental, everglades restoration, florida, florida legislators, green toxic algae, indian river lagoon, jacquithurlowlippish, lake okeechobee, send clean water south

• Who’s going to be the party of clean water and no more discharges?

  

  In Florida the party of big sugar is both parties and they equally don’t care about this issue.

  Cyndi Lenz

  April 27, 2015

  environmental, florida, my martin county

  amendment one, army corp of engineers, big sugar, buy the land, clean water, congressman patrick murphy, environmental, everglades, everglades foundation, everglades restoration, florida, florida legislators, green toxic algae, indian river lagoon, lake okeechobee, miami herald, northern eastuary, repuplicans, send clean water south, st lucie river, stephen crisafulli, tallahasseee

• Solidarity Fish headed back to Tallahassee Solidarity y’all

  

  Solidarity doesn’t mean we talk at you and you talk at us and we remain at this brick wall. Solidarity means working  together for a real solution to end the Toxic Discharges, to save our drinking water, to save our everglades, to stop salt water intrusion.

  Cyndi Lenz

  April 25, 2015

  environmental, florida, my martin county

  barack obama, buy the land, clean water, congressman patrick murphy, environmental, everglades, everglades restoration, florida, green toxic algae, indian river lagoon, lake okeechobee, northern eastuary, send clean water south, solidarity fish, st lucie river