Manatee County passes fertilizer ordinance

This is great news. Manatee County is now the 36th local government banning the use of fertilizers during the rainy season. City of Tampa, Charlotte and Collier County in the process of debating similar bills. Show your support.

Water Quality Fight Update

From the Sierra Club:

March 23, 2011: HB 457, a bill that would preempt and gut fertilizer regulation ordinances adopted by 40 local governments throughout Florida, passed this morning in the House Community and Military Affairs Subcommittee by one vote. The 8 to 7 vote count is below (all democrats and two republicans voted no).

Congressman Rooney rider to the Fiscal Year 2011 Continuing Resolution

The Congressman Rooney rider to the Fiscal Year 2011 Continuing Resolution, which stops the EPA from implementing new freshwater water quality standards, was adopted by the House of Representatives. U.S.House budget vote threatens Florida Clean Water Rule

Now the fight goes to the senate...

If you're in Cedar Key, remember John Muir

One my favorite naturalists, John Muir, spent time here in Florida -- actually, several months in 1867. He arrived at Cedar Key in October, seven weeks after setting out from Indiana on a "thousand-mile walk to the Gulf."

If you're in Cedar Key, you can go by John Muir historical marker. More here.

Renewable Electricity Standard Amendment

More jobs...
Less pollution...
Cheaper electricity bills...

We're closer than ever before!

The Senate votes on a Renewable Electricity Standard Amendment THIS WEEK!

Click here to write your Senators now.

World Ocean Day

Sign Our Petition

Tell the United Nations to officially declare June 8 as "World Ocean Day."   Make it Official

Peru's forests

In a major advance in our campaign to halt Peru's export of endangered mahogany, Congress and the Bush administration have agreed to include key protections against illegal logging in the U.S.-Peru trade agreement. Each year, loggers cut down thousands of majestic mahogany trees, laying waste to the lush habitat of the squirrel monkey and threatening the survival of indigenous peoples. More than 80 percent of this tropical timber -- much of it illegally harvested -- is bound for the United States. Congressional negotiators also insisted on measures that would prevent illegal mahogany from passing through U.S. Customs. Now, we must keep the pressure on the Peruvian government to ensure that all export mahogany is logged legally and sustainably.

» Tell the Peruvian government to do its part to curtail illegal mahogany exports.