We May Not Need High-Tech Ways to Protect Springs
We agree with J. Scott Angle that it will take a lot of science and behavior change to transfer to a sustainable agriculture that will allow the springs to be restored. But we believe it […]
Write Plain-English Rules to Save Florida’s Natural Springs | Editorial
The 2016 bill referred to below was the Florida Springs and Aquifer Protection Act and highly touted by legislators and Tallahassee decision makers, but not by environmentalists as said by David Simmons in this article: […]
Using Pollution to Make More Pollution and Spending Millions Doing It.
The title here is “Algae to Fertilizer” which should be : “Algae to Fertilizer to More Algae.” This is rather incredible but here in Florida we are used to it. We have a serious water […]
IFAS and Fertilizer -Here We Go Again
The Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences of the University of Florida may soon make recommendations as to the amounts of fertilizer farmers should apply to their crops. The amounts commonly used in practice in […]
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 […]
Low Grade for Algae Efforts
This old news but worth repeating over and over. Repeated enough times, maybe Florida’s citizens will get the message and kick out of office our guilty lawmakers, starting with the governor on down, and vote […]
Humans Impact Red Tide Intensity, New Study Finds
Hopefully this will help change the mind of the naysayers, including some at the the Mote Marine Laboratory, who wish to push off the red tide as simply a natural occurrence. Same ol’ same ol’: […]
Florida Tops List for Most Polluted Lakes in the U.S., Study Finds
Florida’s waters are in a horrible mess and our state leaders are totally useless; in fact, they are the cause. Political hot air blows strong and very little gets done. Lots of money is spent […]
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