May 6, 2024
Environment
Protection
For decades, highly populated areas like Hillsborough County and Pinellas County have operated taxpayer-funded land-buying programs to protect environmentally sensitive lands.
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Published on 6/1/2007
Green Commitment
In a nod to energy conservation and resource preservation, the University of Miami has signed the Talloires Declaration of the Association of University Leaders for a Sustainable Future.
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Published on 6/1/2007
Backbone
From its enactment in 2001, the plan to restore what remains of the Everglades has been a vehicle with a lot of moving pieces.
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Published on 4/1/2007
Adapting
Can Florida become a model for how U.S. states adapt to climate change?
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Published on 4/1/2007
Who's Lesley Blackner?
Meet the woman whose ideas are hated by every business group in Florida.
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Published on 3/1/2007
Algae Alert
Researchers are tracking a stubborn algae bloom in southern Biscayne Bay.
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Published on 2/1/2007
New Stormwater Rules on Tap
Florida regulators are behind the times in allowing for water-saving, less-polluting techniques such as pervious concrete, narrower streets, green roofs and swales.
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Published on 2/1/2007
Going Green
Water-supply woes, energy costs and environmental concerns are pushing green building practices into the mainstream in Florida.
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Published on 2/1/2007
Environmental Services
Restoration projects are 'no longer a niche.'
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Published on 1/1/2007
Dirty Work
St. Lucie could become the nation's first county to use technology that vaporizes landfill waste. County officials gave the nod to Atlanta-based Geoplasma to fund and build a $425- million facility that uses plasma arcs to turn waste into electricity.
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Published on 12/1/2006
Going with the Flow
A long-gone and nearly forgotten series of small waterfalls, believed by many historians to have influenced the siting of Florida's capital...
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Published on 12/1/2006
Leaping Lizards
In the 1990s, Lee County residents rejected calls to cull Gasparilla Island's growing population of non-native black spiny-tailed iguanas, which they saw as harmless and even a tourist attraction. Ten thousand iguanas later, their novelty seems to have wo
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Published on 11/1/2006
Recharging Florida Forever
Rising land prices and a flat budget have eroded the state's leading conservation program.
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Published on 10/1/2006
Patchwork
Tallahassee and Leon County planners for a decade have envisioned preservation of the wetlands and forested uplands of the St. Marks River flood plain, facilitating the purchase of 4,700 acres to add to a patchwork of green spaces that eventually could co
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Published on 9/1/2006
Trendsetters - Sept. 2006
W. Denney Pate, Figg Engineering Group; Kim DeBosier, Bayside Engineering; David Jaramillo, IBM Software Group; Shannon R. LaRocque, Palm Beach County.
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Published on 9/1/2006
Crop-Fueled
Progress Energy Florida has signed a 25-year contract with Biomass Investment Group to purchase electric energy generated by a crop-fueled power plant to be built near Lake Okeechobee.
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Published on 9/1/2006
Infrastructure Aims for Balanced Portfolio
Security, dependability and efficiency are the hallmarks of Florida's changing infrastructure.
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Published on 9/1/2006
Reasoning Animals
Two stories from the state's growth management front this summer.
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Published on 8/1/2006
Tapped Out
Miami-Dade has a dismal record of conserving water and has done little to prepare for the roughly 100 million-gallon- per-day increase in consumption the county expects over the next 20 years.
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Published on 8/1/2006
Sinking Study
How much PCB contaminant will scrapped Navy vessels add to the undersea environment?
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Published on 8/1/2006
Cooldown
Formerly hot northwest Florida housing markets were nipped this spring, as sales dipped by double-digit percentages.
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Published on 7/1/2006
Water Works
Palm Bay hopes an innovative, campus-style complex housing administrative and other services can keep it abreast of its explosive growth.
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Published on 7/1/2006
Ranch Roundup
After years of negotiations among state and local officials, environmentalists and a host of developers who sought to buy the 91,356-acre Babcock Ranch in Lee and Charlotte counties,
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Published on 7/1/2006
Saving the Mouse
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has presented an award to Escambia County for its successful efforts in breaching a divide between developers and wildlife protectors.
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Published on 6/1/2006
Conservationists' Coup
Forest products giant International Paper Co. has shifted its focus from forest management to paper and packaging production.
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Published on 6/1/2006
