Floridians will be asked to vote on a land conservation ballot initiative, Amendment 4, next week. At an Audubon of Florida event on Friday, the measure got some high-level support from Gov. Charlie Crist (R).
"It's a political year, I don't know if you realize, but we have an election coming up. And there's an important amendment, regarding conservation," Crist said. "It's Amendment 4, and I encourage you to support it ... I think it's great for Florida, and I'm endorsing it."
The measure, which needs the approval of 60 percent of the state's voters to pass, will give a property-tax exemption for land placed under permanent protection, and it would direct the legislature to pass a law to allow land currently being used for conservation purposes, though not permanently set aside as such, to be taxed according to its conservation use.
Enviros are praising Crist for stepping up in favor of the initiative. "Gov. Crist has demonstrated true leadership on climate change," said Eric Draper, deputy director and policy director of the Florida Audubon Society, in a statement. "The governor's support for Amendment 4, Florida's land conservation amendment, is yet another example of that leadership in action."
Here's video of the endorsement:
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amazingdrx Posted 1:53 am
28 Oct 2008
We all can see that reducing oil demand beats OPEC and the exxonmobsters, so let's do it.
Lots of green jobs can be created producing these alternatives to gas guzzling transportation. And this is the big stick Barack needs on the world stage.
How long would Bin Laden remain at large if the ME had to deal with falling oil prices, prices controlled not by their cartel, but by consumers who reduce oil use.
Peace and prosperity will go hand in hand down this conservation and renewable energy path. Negotiation will replace war after horrendous oil war.
Wind and solar and plugin htbrids will become the norm everywhere, even in the former oil kleptocracies. That would let the people of the world work together to manufacture our way out of climate disaster, shortage, famine, deprivation, and war.
No more corporate shills setting culture against culture. No more bellicose dictators and warlords and terrorist groups cashing in on fabricated fear.
Crist senses it, strategic leadership is back in style. Bushwacker "strategery" is obsolete.
http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin
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