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Sierra Leaders Needed. Volunteers are needed now to work on assisting local Groups with administrative issues. Help strengthen Sierra Club Florida. Details.

Ramp up for 2010 Legislative Session. Your calls and emails made a difference last year, and now we need you once again. Click Here to see what you can do.

Amendment 4 will be on the ballot. Join the campaign to get Amendment 4 / Hometown Democracy passed. Learn how to help by going to FHD INC. For details about our Florida Growth Management team Click Here.

Campaign Coordinators Wanted: Waste Minimization Campaign. SC Florida has made waste minimization one of its priority campaigns for 2009-2010. Volunteers from every SC Group are needed. Click Here to find out more on the campaign and how to volunteer to be a Group Coordinator

Fair Districts for Florida. Two Constitutional Amendment petitions circulating now could assure that our legislative districts are drawn fairly during the next redistricting in 2011 and 2012. Sierra Club Florida has endorsed these petition drives and urges you to learn about the issue, sign and send in the petitions and spread the word! Find out more, go to Florida Fair Districts.

Leatherback Turtles Might Lose Their Nests. In 2008, Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, then governor of Puerto Rico, protected 3,000 acres of coastline known as the Northeast Ecological Corridor. It’s one of the most important U.S. nesting grounds for the critically endangered leatherback, the world's largest sea turtle, as well as for 50 other rare, threatened, endangered, and native species, like the brown pelican, Puerto Rican boa, and West Indian manatee. Now the new governor, Luis Fortuño, is canceling the Corridor’s nature-reserve designation to pave the way for large-scale, unsustainable development in the area. Join the Sierra Club's Puerto Rico Chapter in telling Gov. Fortuño to protect this vital nesting habitat for the endangered leatherback sea turtle. Speak up now.

Water Supply Planning Public Meetings. The St. Johns River Water Management District will hold a series of meetings to encourage public participation in the development of the District Water Supply Plan 2010 and review of the draft District Water Supply Assessment 2008. If you live near Palataka, Gainesville, Green Cove Springs, DeLand, Orlando, or Vero Beach, you should attend. This is your water. Click Here to find out when the meeting will take place in your neighborhood.

The FWC heard your impassioned pleas about freswater turtle harvesting. The Commission passed their new rule to protect the turtles, which went into effect July 20. Congrats to all our activists. Read more.

In The Press

Sierra Club Petitions for Panther Habitat Protection

The Sierra Club joins the Conservancy of SW Florida and petitions the Dept. of the Interior and the US FIsh and Wildlife Service to protect panther habitat.

Thumb Up: First federal funds for Everglades on their way

Looking for worthwhile investments of your federal tax dollars?

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded $53 million for a contract to restart an Everglades restoration project in eastern Collier County.

 

Architect association members urge Rep. Snyder of Stuart to support increased use of solar power and other alternative energy

As they sat on the porch of a local home topped with solar photovoltaic panels, members of a local branch of a national organization of architects asked State Rep. William D. Snyder, R-Stuart, to support their plan to increase the use of solar and other forms of alternative energy in the Sunshine State

 

Water management district agrees to ease watering restrictions

South Florida water managers on Friday imposed new year-round watering restrictions, agreeing to ease existing irrigation limits but also for the first time setting a permanent conservation standard.

 

Water conservation a must in Florida

Recent years of rain-stingy skies have taught Florida a vital lesson: No longer can the Sunshine State afford to indulge its water guzzling ways. We've found out the hard way that water is not the infinite resource we've long treated it as, so conservation is the best way to ensure adequate supplies for future generations.

 

Editorial: The water grab

When the Florida Council of 100 proposed in 2003 that the solution to Florida's growing water shortage was to pipe massive amounts of water from water-rich North Florida to thirsting South Florida, the backlash was sharp and swift.

 

Weak Fla. power conservation goals rejected

The Florida Public Service Commission on Tuesday rejected proposed energy conservation goals that environmentalists had called too weak.

 

Hold polluters accountable for what they do to Florida waters

It is hard to imagine anyone defending the polluters that are turning our waters green.