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Ebb and Fla. Reporter Michael Grunwald gabs about his new book on the Everglades	Emily Gertz	27 Mar 2006	Arts and Minds
For about 5,000 years, the waters of the peninsula we now call Florida flowed south into the Kissimmee River. The Kissimmee emptied into enormous Lake Okeechobee, which in turn spilled over into a vast, shallow sheet that slid slowly along the nearly flat expanse of south Florida to the ocean. This was the complex and subtle ecosystem of the natural Everglades, a seemingly endless marsh re ...
Topics: Florida, wetlands (all these topics)

Give Him a Farmhand Tirso Moreno, farmworker organizer, answers readers' questions		24 Mar 2006	InterActivist
Tirso Moreno, Farmworker Association of Florida. A note from Moreno: This interview is especially timely as next week (March 27 - April 2) is national Farmworker Awareness Week. I hope you will all take a few minutes to find out more about the actions, activities, and campaigns going on around the country and see what you can do to help make a difference for farmworkers in the U.S. Do you support bans ...
Topics: agriculture, environmental justice, Florida, health, InterActivist, interview, Poverty and the Environment, toxics (all these topics)

The Not-So-Funny Farm Tirso Moreno, farmworker organizer, answers Grist's questions		20 Mar 2006	InterActivist
Tirso Moreno. What's your job title? General coordinator for the Farmworker Association of Florida. What does your organization do? We work to empower communities of farmworkers and the rural poor, focusing on a wide range of issues, from workplace and community organizing to disaster preparedness and response, from vocational rehabilitation to immigrants' rights advocacy for farmworkers and students. ...
Topics: agriculture, environmental justice, Florida, health, InterActivist, interview, Poverty and the Environment, toxics (all these topics)

Stick It Where the Sun Does Shine Senate panel clears drilling expansion off Florida coast		09 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
Stick It Where the Sun Does Shine Senate panel clears drilling expansion off Florida coast The specter of new drilling in the Gulf of Mexico loomed a little larger yesterday, as the Senate Energy Committee approved a bill to open millions of acres about 100 miles off the Florida coast to oil and gas exploration. Now, please get out your scorecards and sharpen your No. 2 pencils: Florida Sens. Mel Martinez (R) ...
Topics: Florida, mining and drilling, news, politics (all these topics)

Florida, Come and Rock the Offshore Shot Congress and Bush admin push to open offshore areas to drilling		03 Mar 2006	Daily Grist

Topics: California, energy, Florida, mining and drilling, natural gas, oceans, oil, politics (all these topics)

Derrick Cheater Bush admin proposes drilling off Florida, Virginia, Alaska coasts		09 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
Derrick Cheater Bush admin proposes drilling off Florida, Virginia, Alaska coasts When President Bush said "America is addicted to oil," we thought ... wait, did we say this already? Yesterday, the administration proposed new oil and gas drilling off the coasts of Florida, Virginia, and Alaska -- including areas covered by a long-standing moratorium on offsh ...
Topics: Alaska, Department of Interior, Florida, mining and drilling, news, oceans, Virginia (all these topics)

Who Moved My Panther? Endangered Florida panthers must be relocated to be saved, say feds		02 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
Who Moved My Panther? Endangered Florida panthers must be relocated to be saved, say feds South Florida has run out of room for its 80-odd endangered panthers, says the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the best way to save the species is to move some of them to other spots in the region. In its official panther recovery report, released this week, the agency recommends creating two additional panth ...
Topics: Florida, news, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

Beswitched Jeb Bush's switcheroo on drilling causes rift in Florida delegation		11 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
Beswitched Jeb Bush's switcheroo on drilling causes rift in Florida delegation Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) is backing a bill in the House of Representatives that would open some new federal waters, including the eastern Gulf of Mexico, to oil rigs -- and in so doing, he's fractured the state's long-standing bipartisan political consensus against offshore drilling. Jeb's flip-flop, after years of advocat ...
Topics: Florida, mining and drilling, news, oceans, politics (all these topics)

The Swamp Bling Bushies sought to overpay GOP supporters for Everglades mineral rights		09 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
The Swamp Bling Bushies sought to overpay GOP supporters for Everglades mineral rights The Bush administration agreed to grossly overpay Florida's family-owned Collier Resources Co. for oil and gas rights on 400,000 acres in the Everglades, according to Interior Department Inspector General Earl Devaney. In 2002, Interior Secretary Gale Norton triumphantly announced the deal as "a win for all sides" ...
Topics: Florida, mining and drilling, news, politics (all these topics)

Bog Bites Man Everglades restoration stagnating after five years		28 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Bog Bites Man Everglades restoration stagnating after five years Restoration of the Florida Everglades is, well, a bit bogged down, according to a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers internal memo. Written by Everglades project manager Gary Hardesty, the memo was addressed to Army Corps colleagues preparing to write a five-year update on the 30-year restoration plans. Hardesty noted that the unde ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, environmental restoration, Florida, news (all these topics)

Panther in the Dark FWS admits using bad data to determine panther habitat		23 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Panther in the Dark FWS admits using bad data to determine panther habitat The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has admitted to using shoddy science and thrice violating federal law while designating habitat for the endangered Florida panther, thereby allowing giant development projects to proceed within the species' range. Turns out, the core of the disputed science was a scheduling conflict -- with t ...
Topics: Florida, news, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

Green Tag, You're It On Green Tags	Umbra Fisk	07 Mar 2005	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, My power company (Florida Power and Light) sent me a letter asking me to choose its Sunshine Energy program, which, for an additional $9.75 a month, helps support the building of a 150-kilowatt solar facility in Florida. Do you think I should do it? Linda Coral Springs, Fla. Dearest Linda, Yes. And I am herewith going to foist my plans for 2005 upon all the rest of you: They involve deemphasizing insignificant widgets and ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, energy, Florida, greenhouse-gas emissions, renewable energy, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

Sweet 'n' Low-Down Sugar is causing environmental catastrophes		09 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Sweet 'n' Low-Down Sugar is causing environmental catastrophes A high-sugar diet is slowly fattening and sickening American people, but we're getting off easy. Turns out the sweet stuff is outright killing endangered Florida panthers, not to mention the ecosystem in which they live. Almost 700,000 acres of the Florida Everglades have been drained to create the Everglades Agricultural Area, about 80 per ...
Topics: Australia, Florida, food and agriculture, wildlife (all these topics)

Stormy Whether Enviro issues play big in the race for Florida's electoral votes	Amanda Griscom Little	25 Oct 2004	Muckraker
The brutal hurricanes have passed, but now Florida is in the eye of the swirling swing-state storm -- and environmental issues are being swept into the fray by high-ranking politicians and hot-ticket celebrities alike. The Everglades are now faced with a campaign hurricane. Photo: USGS. � Martin Miller. With its 27 electoral votes -- more than any of the other swing states -- Flor ...
Topics: elections, Florida, Muckraker, politics, state politics (all these topics)

Mean Green Pegeen Pegeen Hanrahan, mayor of Gainesville, Fla., answers readers' questions		22 Oct 2004	InterActivist
Pegeen Hanrahan, mayor of Gainesville, Fla. I'm intrigued but saddened by your characterization of activists as largely unprofessional, and I wince at its implications. If a friendly, suave, professional-looking lobbyist is taken more seriously even by politicians like yourself who are sympathetic to the cause, what does this mean for less-professional-looking enviros and activists attempting t ...
Topics: Florida, InterActivist, interview, politics (all these topics)

Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gainesville Pegeen Hanrahan, mayor of Gainesville, Fla., answers questions		18 Oct 2004	InterActivist
Pegeen Hanrahan What work do you do? Earlier this year I was elected to serve as mayor of Gainesville, Fla., for the next three years. Gainesville is a beautiful and diverse city of about 117,000, often called "the city in the forest" because of our heavy tree cover. Gainesville is the home of the University of Florida, the fourth-largest college campus in the nation, with ...
Topics: Florida, InterActivist, interview, politics (all these topics)

Oh Brother, Where Art ... Oh, There You Are Jeb Bush borrows money to accelerate Everglades plan		15 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Oh Brother, Where Art ... Oh, There You Are Jeb Bush borrows money to accelerate Everglades plan President Bush has made much of his devotion to wetlands, even vowing during the second debate to "increase the wetlands by 3 million." Three whole million! But the nation's biggest environmental initiative -- signed into law in 2000 and aimed at restoring Florida's most beloved wetlands, the Everglades -- is mov ...
Topics: Florida, land stewardship, politics (all these topics)

A Phase of Rebuilding Terry Tempest Williams sends dispatches from an election-season tour		13 Oct 2004	Dispatches
Acclaimed author Terry Tempest Williams is currently on the road for a cross-country "Open Space of Democracy Tour" sponsored by Orion Magazine and Orion Books, publisher of her most recent book, The Open Space of Democracy. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 \| 6 \| 7 Wednesday, 13 Oct 2004 in the air Out of my plane window, I see Mount St. Helens. She is fuming, a plume of steam is rising. Rainier, Adam ...
Topics: Dispatches, elections, Florida, politics (all these topics)

Tempest in a Tight Spot Writer Terry Tempest Williams barred from speaking on Florida campus		12 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Tempest in a Tight Spot Writer Terry Tempest Williams barred from speaking on Florida campus Renowned author and wilderness activist Terry Tempest Williams is touring the country to promote her new book, "The Open Space of Democracy." Given the subject, it's a rather pointed irony that the board of trustees of Florida Gulf Coast University voted 11 to 1 to prohibit Williams from speaking at a convocation, unhappy wi ...
Topics: elections, Florida, politics (all these topics)

Your One Beautiful Life Terry Tempest Williams sends dispatches from an election-season tour		12 Oct 2004	Dispatches
Acclaimed author Terry Tempest Williams is currently on the road for a cross-country "Open Space of Democracy Tour" sponsored by Orion Magazine and Orion Books, publisher of her most recent book, The Open Space of Democracy. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 \| 6 \| 7 Tuesday, 12 Oct 2004 TACOMA, Wash. We say goodbye to Serni Solidarios, director of student programs at the University of Puget Sound, as ...
Topics: Dispatches, elections, Florida, politics (all these topics)

Cheney Reaction Terry Tempest Williams sends dispatches from an election-season tour		11 Oct 2004	Dispatches
Acclaimed author Terry Tempest Williams is currently on the road for a cross-country "Open Space of Democracy Tour" sponsored by Orion Magazine and Orion Books, publisher of her most recent book, The Open Space of Democracy. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 \| 6 \| 7 Monday, 11 Oct 2004 TACOMA, Wash. Brooke and I are at the University of Puget Sound. Together. The students have been radiant. And to the reader ...
Topics: Dispatches, elections, Florida, politics (all these topics)

Cry Freedom of Speech Terry Tempest Williams sends dispatches from an election-season tour		10 Oct 2004	Dispatches
Acclaimed author Terry Tempest Williams is currently on the road for a cross-country "Open Space of Democracy Tour" sponsored by Orion Magazine and Orion Books, publisher of her most recent book, The Open Space of Democracy. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 \| 6 \| 7 Sunday, 10 Oct 2004 MONTROSE, Colo. 5:30 a.m. Wake-up call. Eyes open. Rise. Stumble around the motel room. Turn on light. Walk to bathroo ...
Topics: Dispatches, elections, Florida, politics (all these topics)

Tour of Beauty Terry Tempest Williams sends dispatches from an election-season tour		08 Oct 2004	Dispatches
Acclaimed author Terry Tempest Williams is currently on the road for a cross-country "Open Space of Democracy Tour" sponsored by Orion Magazine and Orion Books, publisher of her most recent book, The Open Space of Democracy. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 \| 6 \| 7 Friday, 08 Oct 2004 SALT LAKE CITY, Utah & GOLDEN, Colo. My father bought me a cell phone last night. He said that I need "to get with t ...
Topics: Dispatches, elections, Florida, politics (all these topics)

School House Rock Terry Tempest Williams sends dispatches from an election-season tour		07 Oct 2004	Dispatches
Acclaimed author Terry Tempest Williams is currently on the road for a cross-country "Open Space of Democracy Tour" sponsored by Orion Magazine and Orion Books, publisher of her most recent book, The Open Space of Democracy. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 \| 6 \| 7 Thursday, 07 Oct 2004 SALT LAKE CITY, Utah Slept very little. I am on pins and needles waiting to hear what has happened, wondering if the stu ...
Topics: Dispatches, elections, Florida, politics (all these topics)

Tempest in a Tight Spot Terry Tempest Williams sends dispatches from an election-season tour		06 Oct 2004	Dispatches
Acclaimed author Terry Tempest Williams is currently on the road for a cross-country "Open Space of Democracy Tour" sponsored by Orion Magazine and Orion Books, publisher of her most recent book, The Open Space of Democracy. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 \| 6 \| 7 Wednesday, 06 Oct 2004 SALT LAKE CITY, Utah When two young Canadians embarked on an extraordinary journey to follow the caribou migratio ...
Topics: Dispatches, elections, Florida, politics (all these topics)

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