How Do We Get out of This Mess?
How did our County Commission come to abandon fair representation? Who should you vote for this year?
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- Feb 15
- 16 min
When the Last of a Species Breathes No More
When the Last of a Species Breathes No More “When the last individual of a race of living beings breathes no more, another heaven and...
- Oct 2, 2023
- 4 min
Wetlands Decision Will Determine Our Future
My name is Brice Claypoole. I’m fifteen years old and run the advocacy group Kids for Clean Water. The group was founded in 2020 by me...
- Aug 4, 2023
- 4 min
Public Outcry is Our Best Weapon
I am fifteen years old and live in Manatee County. More than anything, I enjoy exploring our local environment, our land and waters. I...
- Mar 20, 2023
- 1 min
Press
Seeking Rents: A Rebellion in Florida The Bradenton Journal: Guest column | How does Manatee County get out of this mess? Vote! The...
- Mar 14, 2023
- 3 min
The State of Pollution
An image I took one week ago in my neighborhood: hundreds of fish, dead due to red tide. Florida is famous for water. Our springwater is...
- Feb 28, 2023
- 2 min
The Future of Florida’s Mangroves
What is the true beauty of Southwest Florida? The thing that has drawn us here? To many it is the nature, the beauty and serenity of our...
- Jan 23, 2023
- 1 min
"Government by Extortion is Considered Criminal"
In reference to the county and state's recent attack on home rule in attempting to punish AMI for regulating development, please see this...
- Jan 22, 2023
- 3 min
Florida: Where Home Rule Goes to Die?
Photo by Brice Claypoole On January 12, Representative Will Robinson Jr., supported unanimously by our local state legislative...
- Jan 17, 2023
- 5 min
Suncoast Waterkeeper: More Accountability Needed to Protect Our Mangroves
Decimated mangroves at Aqua by the Bay. Photo credit: Suncoast Waterkeeper Relentless development has long plagued Southwest Florida,...
- Jan 2, 2023
- 6 min
“Packaging Away the Planet”: Fighting a Plastic Polluter
Muntaka Chasant/Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plastic_Pollution_in_Ghana.jpg “The entire lifecycle of...
- Oct 10, 2022
- 7 min
Takeaways from Hurricane Ian: The Price of Climate Change is too Steep
Hurricane Ian approaches Florida. The storm would kill around 100 people in the following days. Photo Credit: National Oceanic and...
- Jun 13, 2022
- 5 min
The Fight for Florida's Mangroves
Gnarled mangrove forests once dominated Florida’s coastlines. Hundreds of herons, egrets, pelicans, and stunning pink roseate spoonbills...
- May 15, 2022
- 1 min
Swimming for Mantas!
This year I learned to SCUBA dive. I also learned from my dive instructor, Nicole Pelletier, founder of Caribbean Islands Manta...
- Apr 10, 2022
- 3 min
Help Save the Mangroves
On March 16, Attorney Edward Vogler on behalf of Medallion Home, Neal Communities, and other developers wrote a public comment to Manatee...
- Jan 21, 2022
- 5 min
The Pollinators' Plight
One of the last Franklin’s bumble bees pollinates a composite flower. Photo by James P. Strange, USDA-ARS Pollinating Insect Research...
- Nov 10, 2021
- 5 min
Will we still have a “Silent Spring”?
One of the last photos ever taken of the Bachman’s warbler (1958) Photo by Jerry A. Payne, USDA Agricultural Research Service:...
- Sep 11, 2021
- 3 min
How to Support Wildlife: Plant Native!
A Selenisa caterpillar on a native partridge pea plant. Photo by Brice Claypoole On a recent trip to Terra Ceia Nature Preserve, I...
- Jul 19, 2021
- 6 min
Save the Bees!
A beautiful blue sweat bee (Augochlorella) on a turkey tangle frogfruit (Phyla nodiflora). Photo by Brice Claypoole When someone says the...
- Apr 5, 2021
- 5 min
Florida’s Future: Toxic Bays and Drinking Radioactive Sewage Water?
A machine mines minerals for Mosaic. (Photo by Brice Claypoole) We are driving outside of a small town called Wauchula, in what feels to...
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