The military plans for climate threats and Florida has some of the most vulnerable installations
By Kevin Green, Navy retired Vice Admiral In the Pentagon’s Climate Risk Analysis released earlier this month, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin wrote, ...
Month: October 2021
State provides some money to help protect the beleaguered Indian River Lagoon
By Peter Barile, American Water Security Project The Secretary of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP), members of the local ...
We need to stop subsidizing organizations that harm springs through pumping and pollution
By Robert Knight, Howard T. Odum Florida Springs Institute Kudos to the owners, editors and reporters of the Gainesville Sun ...
Here’s a better way for Florida to become energy efficient
By Carol Lindsey, Florida Clinicians for Climate Action Medical professionals are seeing more patients whose health is adversely affected by ...
Ankush Bansal: The warming climate can make you sick and the healthcare industry needs to do a better job treating the threat
An interview with Ankush Bansal, Florida Clinicians for Climate Action As part of its series “The Business of Climate Change,” ...
The climate crisis needs to be addressed right now
Louis Merlin, Citizens’ Climate Lobby Senator Joe Manchin objects to President Biden’s clean energy plan for electric utilities in the ...
An open letter to Florida’s newspapers
By the CLEO Institute For more information, click here: https://cleoinstitute.org/open-letter-to-newspapers/ We are a group of nonprofit organizations, fellow journalists, business ...
FPL’s proposed new minimum bill would cost millions and punish solar users
By Heaven Campbell, Solar United Neighbors With so much attention focused – as it should be – on Florida Power ...
We need to make older buildings more resilient and efficient so that communities can cope with the warming climate
By Deisy Verdinez, U.S. Green Building Council There’s a misconception of what green buildings look like. Yes, they can be ...
The Build Back Better Act would save Gullah/Geechee people, traditions
By Zavia Jenkins and Glenda Simmons Jenkins, Ocean Conservancy On the first day of spring this year, my mother and ...
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