Happy Friday, I hope everyone is having a great summer. The last month has been very active; thanks to everyone for your efforts. A few highlights: • Robert Rorebeck led a cleanup at the Seaplane Basin on June 30th that turned out to be very timely in the aftermath of Debbie. It was well attended […]
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by Alison Lueders, Great Green Editing Here’s a health care story that is not about the Affordable Care Act. Rather, it’s about how green initiatives can dovetail with both quality care and affordable care. Nationally, the health care sector comprises 16% of U.S. GDP and produces 8% of greenhouse gas emissions annually. In Florida, health
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by Alison Lueders, Great Green Editing Here’s a health care story that is not about the Affordable Care Act. Rather, it’s about how green initiatives can dovetail with both quality care and affordable care. Nationally, the health care sector comprises 16% of U.S. GDP and produces 8% of greenhouse gas emissions annually. In Florida, health
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by Alison Lueders, Great Green Editing Happy Fourth of July! It seems an appropriate day to pause and consider how our government is addressing sustainability challenges. In fact, government at all levels is taking steps to: (1) overhaul its own operations to save money on things like water, energy and waste (2) regulate activities that
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On Saturday June 30th, 2012, The Sustany® Foundation conducted a beach clean-up at the Davis Islands Seaplane Basin as part of our 2nd quarter maintenance event in conjunction with the Keep Tampa Bay Beautiful program. Starting at 8:30am, a group of 14 people collected 12 bags of trash, mostly plastic water bottles, beer cans,
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by Alison Lueders, Great Green Editing Sustainability covers a broad set of issues: energy, environment, food, water, waste, green building, transportation – the list goes on. Our survival depends on understanding and addressing those issues properly. And that means learning about the causes, effects and possible solutions to these challenges. We all need to go
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by Alison Lueders, Great Green Editing Sustainability covers a broad set of issues: energy, environment, food, water, waste, green building, transportation – the list goes on. Our survival depends on understanding and addressing those issues properly. And that means learning about the causes, effects and possible solutions to these challenges. We all need to go
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(CNNMoney) — A curious thing is happening to the air in the United States. It’s getting cleaner. Despite there being no real effort by Congress to address global warming and America’s longstanding reputation as an energy hog, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions are falling. The lackluster economy has something to do with it. But it doesn’t fully explain what’s happening.
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Glass-bottomed boats grew famous here as did underwater photography. Even Tarzan was lured to the springs; six of the movies in the 1930s and ’40s were filmed here. Tourists arrived in droves to these springs, just outside Ocala. The riverscape — with anhingas drying their wings in the sun, alligators lolling near the banks and
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Here in Tampa Bay, as elsewhere, green burial has emerged as an alternative to expensive and chemical intensive “traditional” burials and relatively inexpensive cremation. In Dunedin, Eternal Rest Funeral Home offers one a very direct re-integration with nature. “Green Burial is the natural remedy to assist and facilitate the return of the deceased back into
