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About Me

The Sierra Club is America's oldest, largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization. Our Loxahatchee Group has 3,000 members from Palm Beach, Martin, St Lucie and Okeechobee counties in southeast Florida. Anyone interested in saving what's left of our natural environment is welcome to join the club and make a difference.

Please check out these links for upcoming events and ways to get involved:

http://www.sierraclub.org/
http://florida.sierraclub.org/
http://florida.sierraclub.org/loxahatchee/

For more local activism check out:
http://www.pbcec.blogspot.com/
http://evergladesearthfirst.org/



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My Interests

Worth Saving:
Clyde Butcher's Everglades

Cool Cities campaign to stop global warming, speaking up in local government, restoring clean air and water, protecting Florida's coral reefs and the Everglades, environmental education, environmental justice, hiking, camping, birding, recycling and much more.

Below are some of the local organizations we work with. Click on the name to view each organization's webpage.
1000 Friends of Florida,
The Arthur R Marshall Foundation,
The Audubon Society of the Everglades,
The Busch Wildlife Sanctuary,
The Everglades Coalition,
Everglades Foundation,
Loggerhead Marine Life Center,
Pine Jog Environmental Education Center,
PBC Reef Rescue,
PBC Environmental Coalition,
Project Awareness,
Save the Manatee Club,
Southeast Florida Coral Reef Initiative,
Southern Energy Network,
PBC Surfrider Foundation.

Click here for a list of our outdoor activities happening throughout Florida.
Click here for another calendar of eco-events in south Florida

I'd like to meet:

You!
To find out what your ecological footprint is click here

Music:

All sorts

Movies:

An Inconvenient Truth,
The Next Industrial Revolution,
Who Killed The Electric Car,
Kilowatt Ours,
Big Sugar by Brian McKenna,
Sunshine State by John Sayles,
Click here for more Sierra Club Productions films

Television:

The Daily Show,
Globe Trekker,
Animal Planet.
National Geographic's photos of global warming

Books:

Turtle Tracks newsletter,
The Pelican newsletter,
Sierra magazine,
The Everglades: River of Grass,
Silent Spring,
Pononomics
A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold,
The Economics of Everglades Restoration: Missing Pieces in the Future of South Florida by Richard Weisskoff

Heroes:

John Muir,
Mahatma Gandhi,
Marjory Stoneman Douglas,
Rachel Carson,
Wangari Maathai

My Blog

April 24 2008 9am

On April 24 at 9am the Palm Beach County Commissioners (301 North Olive St WPB 6th floor) will vote on whether to rock mine thousands of acres in the agricultural region. There is also a meeting on Ap...
Posted by Sierra Club (LOX) on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:53:00 PST

Save FLs Future!

Here's an article from The Tallahassee Democrat written by a professional planner on why YOU need to sign the Florida Hometown Democracy Petition: www.floridahometowndemocracy.com "Sign and gain freed...
Posted by Sierra Club (LOX) on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 06:02:00 PST

Update on Everglades Funding

Effort to Save Everglades Falters as Funds DropNew York TimesClick here for more pics and videoBy ABBY GOODNOUGHMIAMI, Oct. 31  The rescue of the Florida Everglades, the largest and most expensive en...
Posted by Sierra Club (LOX) on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 06:19:00 PST

Lake Lanier

Drought in Southeast US Leads to Spat Over Lake October 31, 2007by Matthew Bigg http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/45074/sto ry.htmLAKE LANIER, Ga. - A large, man-made lake in north Ge...
Posted by Sierra Club (LOX) on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 09:29:00 PST

Economic Value of Ecology

This is a good argument to have with politicians deciding land use and zoning. People view the world from a human perspective. "How much money can we make developing the Everglades into houses?"&...
Posted by Sierra Club (LOX) on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:56:00 PST

Florida’s Future

Quote from the Everglades Law Center, full text here: http://www.evergladeslaw.org/pdf/attachment-gm2.pdf Environmental View of the 50 Year Picture " During the past 50 years human activities have des...
Posted by Sierra Club (LOX) on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:52:00 PST

Water Wars

Florida Should Learn to Conserve Water FirstCynthia BarnettGuest ColumnHigh Springs Herald9/27/07During the notorious Tampa Bay water wars that raged from the early 1970s through the mid-1990s, reside...
Posted by Sierra Club (LOX) on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 08:53:00 PST

"Has Bush Abandoned the Everglades"

From Time magazine August 10, 2007: "The Everglades has been an endangered site ever since the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers started draining and diverting it in the mid-20th century, trashing eons of ...
Posted by Sierra Club (LOX) on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 11:03:00 PST

Student Sierra Leader Internship

The Student Sierra Club, the local Sierra Club Lox group, and a faculty advisor will mentor an FAU student interested in starting a strong environmental movement on the Boca campus. One of the lo...
Posted by Sierra Club (LOX) on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 06:31:00 PST

Responsible Fertilizing or Mean and Green Lawns

"More than 60 percent of water pollution comes from things like cars leaking oil, fertilizers from farms and gardens, and failing septic tanks. All these sources add up to a big pollution problem. But...
Posted by Sierra Club (LOX) on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 05:58:00 PST