Twin Pines Minerals Get Their Just Due
Great news for Okefenokee and the planet: the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has denied Twin Pines a mining permit. It seems the reasons are twofold — one, the company did not consult with […]
Federal Help For the Manatees?
This excerpt below is from the June 4, 2022 Tampa Bay Times. Florida won’t save the manatees, Florida will kill them all. Let’s hope the Feds will do something. Done right, this could induce the […]
Guest Opinion: Wise Tax Investment Is Key to Solving Florida’s Water Issues
When I saw the title of this article I first thought “Dr. Shuler can’t be from Florida” because if he were, he would know that here throwing money at a water problem usually doesn’t do […]
No Longer Can We Blame “Natural Phenomenon.”
It is so obvious that we can not take care of our own water. Our own water just gets worse and worse, and we symbolically try to skim the toxic algae off the top, and […]
Every Little Bit Helps But We Must Think Much Bigger and Much Faster
Lawn fertilizer restrictions are great and kudos to Ace Hardware for taking fertilizer off the shelves during the summer months. Now we need agricultural fertilizer restrictions, but that is a more difficult issue. But restrictions […]
Impoverished North Florida Needs to Safeguard Natural Resources
The main problem outlined in this excellent article is the lack of sustainability of our resources. The answers to the questions that Mr. Thomas poses below will not be found with the Department of Environmental […]
Legislation Will Help Florida Brace for Rising Sea Levels, but Doesn’t Address Its Underlying Cause
Of course it doesn’t. When we have toxic green algae, we spend money trying to find out how to dissolve it instead of limiting nutrients. When the manatees starve to death we buy lettuce […]
Trash Talk-
Well, this is not an entirely new idea, since our very own Merrillee Malwitz-Jipson has been spotted wearing plastic water bottles at public meetings. But rest assured, unlike Rob Greenfield, these […]
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