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 1516 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, 20234 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, 20234 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 14, 20233 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...
Jan 2, 20236 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...
Jun 13, 20225 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...
Apr 10, 20223 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, 20225 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, 20215 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:...
Apr 5, 20215 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...
Feb 10, 20213 min
Saving Pelicans
Just before 1:00 PM, we finished packing water bottles and snacks into the car and headed to the Sunshine Skyway Fishing Pier. When we...
Oct 14, 20206 min
We Must Face the Facts and Change Our Norms
Let’s change our world in which this monarch (Danaus plexippus) could just be collateral damage of our agriculture system, to which,...
Sep 24, 20203 min
We Go Down with the Earth
Welcome to a regular day in my neighborhood. (Photo by Ali Claypoole) Just this month, much of the western US went up in flames and...
Aug 25, 20202 min
Manatee County Land Acquisition Referendum
This year, Manatee County voters will get the chance to approve a land acquisition referendum. What exactly is this “land acquisition...
Aug 2, 20202 min
For the love of moths!
Moths are mysterious, magical, beautiful and important, but their also in danger.
Jul 25, 20202 min
Who Wants to Swim in Sewage Water?
Sarasota Bay (photo by Brice Claypoole) This week we had a sewage leak into Sarasota Bay. Millions of gallons of sewage water leaked out...
Jul 25, 20203 min
Orange Hammock Ranch: A Very Rare Conservation Opportunity
UPDATE: The Conservation Foundation got the money they needed! They can no longer take donations for this project but you can still...
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