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Arnold’s Subtle Digs at McCain and Crist over Offshore Drilling

When you can’t legally run for President, it frees you up to say the darndest things. Arnold Schwarzenegger appeared at the Florida Climate Change Summit in Miami last week, where he subtly blasted Florida governor Charlie Crist and Republican President-Wannabe John McCain for supporting offshore drilling.
From TampaBay.com:
But he appeared to issue a firm rebuke [...]

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Everglades Conservation Victory a Hopeful Sign of What’s to Come

I remember when South Florida was more than a pastel jumble of overgrown suburban homes, Walgreens drugstores, strip malls and unnatural landscaping. When I was a child growing up along the eastern coast about midway between West Palm Beach and Miami, everything west of our neighborhood was made up of small independent farms, swamp [...]

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Oy Vey! South Florida May be Lost to Global Warming

When news came out about polar bears’ melting habitats, Florida water managers sat up and listened. It’s always been known that melting ice caps could raise the sea level in the state, but officials are finally concerned enough to take real action. Despite a governing board full of Bush supporters (and some global warming deniers), [...]

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Brilliant! Drought-Stricken Florida Gives Nestle Unlimited Water for $230

Ah, Florida. With a reputation already sullied by dirty election politics and bonehead decision making, this latest news is funny, sad and totally unsurprising all at once.
Boing Boing has it:
The State of Florida has given a Nestle bottling plant the right to pump as much water as it can get out Madison Blue Springs State [...]

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This Day in Green History: March 27th, 1513- Ponce de Leon Discovers Florida

On March 27th, 1513, explorer Juan Ponce de Leon discovered Florida, helping to set the stage for the next five hundred years or so for the outright conquest and domination of the Americas and it’s inhabitants by my ancestors (and probably yours) those greedy Europeans. His discovery of Florida made the later formation of the [...]

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War’s a Comin’! Alabama, Georgia and Florida Will Fight it Out Over Water

Good grief. After reading this story on water issues with Alabama, Georgia and Florida, I have this picture in my head of a bunch of Southern Senators pointing at each other and saying, “But siihhr… I say, I say, I say… I asked first!” while swinging their foppish canes around on the floor of the [...]

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