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Doors open at 6:30, movie starts at 7:30. Requesting just a $5 donation at the door to benefit the Barnacle Society and the Sustainability & Resilience Committee of the Coconut Grove Chamber.
Clean the water and send it south! We know what needs to be done and we have the funding to do it. All that's missing is the political will! With just one click you can tell your legislators to support SB 10 and build the EAA Reservoir, please take a minute to send an email today! It's Now or Neverglades!
Written by Alan Farago for Eye on Miami Peoples' memories are short. Apparently in Tallahassee, few recall what happened only one year ago after historic rainfall in mid-winter, normally Florida's dry season, filled Lake Okeechobee to the brim and caused water managers to freak out. Lake Okeechobee is the diseased, liquid heart of Florida. For more than seventy years and until very recently, the lake was used by Big Sugar -- that farms on hundreds of thousands of acres around the lake, mostly around its southern half -- as its cesspit. In wet season, Big Sugar used to routinely pump water off its fields back into the Lake. That runoff was laden with fertilizer and other chemicals, like sulfate, used [...]
The big controversy in the Florida legislature this session is Senate president Joe Negron's effort to fund the acquisition of 60,000 acres of land now in sugarcane production. Although a bill has not been publicly released, there is speculation whether his plan will be approved by the Florida legislature and Gov. Rick Scott. by gimleteye The big controversy in the Florida legislature this session is Senate president Joe Negron's effort to fund the acquisition of 60,000 acres of land now in sugarcane production. Although a bill has not been publicly released, there is speculation whether his plan will be approved by the Florida legislature and Gov. Rick Scott.It is a battle royale because the acquisition frames a central issue for [...]
This month Zoo Miami opened a new exhibit where you can see the different habitats and animals found in the Florida Everglades up close and personal! http://www.zoomiami.org/florida_mission_everglades NULL
Bullsugar and The Now or NeverGlades Xmas Message ... by gimleteye Here's an organization that I strongly endorse and hope you will, too: Bullsugar.org The best Everglades news in 2016 was the emergence of a civic organization, Bullsugar, dedicated to stopping and reversing the mismanagement of water resources in South Florida. That mismanagement has a purpose: to benefit Big Sugar. (Here is a copy of the Now or NeverGlades declaration, if you haven't already signed.)Sugar is the most heavily subsidized (federal welfare) crop in the United States. Major players include the Fanjuls of Coral Gables and Palm Beach and U.S. Sugar Corporation. Every year they take a portion of taxpayer largesse and sprinkle it through Congress and the Florida legislature [...]
Full story at Miami New TimesNULL
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