Lawmakers Must Keep Spirit of Amendment 1- OSFR Op-Ed
As a young lad when I began to make my way into the world, one of the first lessons of life that I learned was that, if you acquired something of value, someone would soon appear […]
Sierra Club Applauds Gulf Power’s New Wind Proposal
Sierra Club Florida News shared a link to the following article: Sierra Club Applauds Gulf Power’s New Wind Proposal For Immediate Release February 11, 2015 Tampa — Today, Gulf Power announced it will seek the Florida […]
Serious Allegations Against Sabal Trail
This post by WWALS poses some serious allegations that Sabal Trail knowlingly withheld information from FERC that seems to be critical and which seems might be detrimental to their efforts to obtain a permit for their controversial pipeline. Although […]
Ban Fracking in Florida Statewide
The Santa Fe River is a 75 mile designated “Outstanding Florida Waterway” that stretches from the interior of North Florida at Lake Santa Fe, flows westerly to the Suwannee River and includes the Ichetucknee River […]
Blowing Smoke on Amendment 1
Freelance writer and editor of Floridaenvironments.com Bruce Ritchie has written a commentary today, Feb. 4, 2015 in the Gainesville Sun dealing with the ramifications of Amendment 1. Since the election back in November put this amendment […]
Magic of Springs Celebrated
Today in the Gainesville Sun, Ron Cunningham has given a review of last week’s presentation “The Myth and Magic of Florida Springs,” by Margaret Ross Tolbert and Rick Kilby. A presentation, according to Cunningham, […]
Important LegiCamp in Tampa
OSFR was represented today in Tampa, Florida by our president Merrillee Malwitz-Jipson at the LegiCamp sponsored by Florida Progressives. This was a day-long conference with over 125 attendees converging from all over the state, and which […]
“Jevons’ Paradox” Costs Us Water
We need to redouble our efforts at conservation and efficient water use, but we must reorder our priorities and focus primarily on ways to limit total extraction. Thus says Dr. Robert Ulanowicz today in the […]
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