We welcome you to join us for a film premiere of Guardians of Troubled Waters, The River Heroes of the South  When: Thursday, November 7, 2019 at 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM Where: Coral Gables Congregational United Church of Christ 3010 De Soto Blvd, Coral Gables, Florida 33134 Admission Details: All tickets are a donation of $15 per person. Please click here to make an online donation towards your admission. This is a ticket-less event. Your name will be at the reservations table at the door at the time of the event. ALL SALES ARE FINAL. For more information, contact us at saveculture.org or (828) 692-8062. Co-sponsored by Friends of the Everglades and Coral Gables Congregational Church Award-winning film director David Weintraub’s [...]

Friends of the Everglades is proud to announce that we are the beneficiaries of this year’s 4th Annual Dirty River Jam in Jensen Beach, Florida. Mark your calendar for October 5th 12-11pm in downtown Jensen Beach to let the good times roll and join us in the fight for clean water. A message from the Dirty River Jam event committee: I’m sure you’re aware of the ongoing fight for clean and healthy water. For decades, the local folks of Martin county have worked together to Save Our River. One of our biggest fundraisers for awareness and education has been The Dirty River Jam. We’ve hosted three very well attended, successful events in the past.  This year we are going to [...]

13 months ago, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers didn’t track toxic algae in Lake Okeechobee discharges. Today, they are changing the way they manage the lake specifically to prevent harmful health effects from toxic algae. This is huge news, and we are grateful to all who have helped us keep the pressure on. This is the biggest change that we’ve seen in the management of Lake Okeechobee waters in over a decade. Even the sugar industry seemed surprised. In response, U.S. Sugar filed a lawsuit opposing government action to protect communities from toxic algae discharges. Now is not the time to lose momentum. We need your help to keep fighting for Floridians. Please consider chipping in $25 to help us turn the tide on toxic algae once and for [...]

Where are we with saving the Everglades?We have Congressional approval for the Little Reservoir That Can’t south of Lake Okeechobee. It’s too small and too deep and doesn’t have adequate cleanup capacity. But the RIGHT NOW challenge is how to manage the Big Lake while we get Everglades Restoration projects straightened out and built. That might be a while. For some reason they changed the acronym for managing the Lake to LOSOM. Our job is to keep LOSOM from being LOATHSOME. The rules should be designed to make the Lake management system work the best it can to help and not hurt all the people and all the wild places of South Florida.   The Corps of Engineers wants you [...]

This short film is part of a larger project by the Center for Cultural Preservation on the river heroes of the South.  Guardians of Our Troubled Waters will be released this summer.  More information can be found at SaveCulture.org    

Join us as we celebrate our 50th anniversary on April 7, 2019 – Everglades Day and Marjory’s birthday. Net proceeds from the event will support Friends’ work to carry on Marjory’s remarkable legacy of standing up to politicians and other powerful interests to defend our River of Grass. Click here for more information. When: Sun, April 7, 2019 from 2:30 PM – 5:30 PM EDT Where: Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden 10901 Old Cutler Road Coral Gables, FL 33156 Friends of the Everglades was founded in 1969 by renowned journalist, author, and environmental activist Marjory Stoneman Douglas to preserve, protect, and restore the only Everglades in the world. Friends prides ourselves on our grassroots approach to elevate citizens’ voices, and we [...]

Tell Governor DeSantis that you oppose the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) draft permit for FPL’s Turkey Point plant. If issued, this permit would allow FPL’s leaking cooling canal system to continue to pollute the Biscayne Aquifer – our drinking water resource – and allow FPL’s pollution to continue migrating into Biscayne National Park and Florida Keys Marine Sanctuary.   Turkey Point’s antiquated cooling canal system has been leaking pollution into the environment for decades, now documented in surface waters. If this permit is issued, this pollution will continue to degrade water quality.  Ask Governor DeSantis to stand up to FPL and say NO to a permit to pollute! Click here to send an email to Governor DeSantis. This flawed permit [...]

“No.” The last holdouts on Rick Scott’s South Florida Water Management District governing board had gone years without hearing this answer from any authority, but things in Florida are different now. On Monday US Judge Federico Moreno denied their request, made essentially on behalf of Florida sugarcane growers, to end federal water quality standards in the Everglades.Called the consent decree, a deal brokered 27 years ago when the federal government decided state agencies were letting the sugarcane industry dump its pollution into public lands and a national park, the standard has never been met. Not even after taxpayers spent more than $1 billion building filtration for the industry’s runoff, and tens of millions every year since to operate that system. (Florida lawmakers voted [...]

A public comment period is now open on a draft permit to govern Turkey Point. ACTION is needed. With the issuance of this Permit, DEP is choosing to side with the corporate polluter for its short-term profits, instead of the long-term sustainability of South Florida! The public know may comment on the NPDES permit renewal at the Turkey Point nuclear plant, as advertised in the Miami Herald. As we know, regulation is meaningless unless there is enforcement and under the last administration DEP and SFWMD have been asleep at the wheel leaving only Miami Dade County to lead the regulatory battle with FPL to protect our resources.  Now to cover that fact up DEP has issued a permit that conveniently [...]

MDX will hold a public hearing for the SR 836/Dolphin Expressway Southwest Extension (Kendall Parkway) Project Development and Environment (PD&E) Study. The public hearing is being conducted to give interested parties an opportunity to express their views concerning the location, conceptual design, and social, economic and environmental effects of the proposed project.  Your participation is critical to ensure the environmental concerns are put on the record. Representatives from MDX’s project team will be available for any questions from 6:00 PM to 6:30 PM. The public hearing will start at 6:30 PM.Overview: MDX is conducting a Project Development and Environment (PD&E) Study to evaluate the feasibility of a southwest extension of SR 836/Dolphin Expressway. The Hold the Line Coalition opposes this [...]