2-4PM at the Doc Thomas House - we'll be honoring invited speaker and longtime Friend of the Everglades Maggie Hurchalla! It is our pleasure to invite you to the Friends of the Everglades 48th Annual Meeting Sunday, April 9th, 2017. Maggy Hurchalla is a longtime Friend of the Everglades and will be our guest speaker for the event. For her Everglades work she has received the Environmentalist of the Year Award from the Everglades Coalition, the Conservation Achievement Award from the National Wildlife Federation, and the National Wetlands Award sponsored by the Environmental Land Institute and the EPA. She is also included in the EVCO Hall of Fame. Friends of the Everglades will be awarding 'The Marjory Stoneman Douglas Defender [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]