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	<description>if you don't save the planet, where are you going to put all your stuff?</description>
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		<title>Public Input Sought for Critical Watershed Plan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most people will agree that the water quality surrounding our Island has been beautiful lately. The Back Bay is clear, our beaches are relatively free of red tide, and fish swim freely in the Caloosahatchee River. But we have been lucky. Barring a couple of releases due to Tropical Storm Fay, we have been spared [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floridatreehugger.com/2008/10/25/public-input-sought-for-critical-watershed-plan/</link>
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		<title>Biodiesel - Alternative Fuel Source?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the not to distant future, the fishing boats down at Fisherman&#8217;s Wharf may all smell like French fries. With all the talk about the oil drilling controversy and whether or not a viable replacement for the stuff will even be possible in our lifetimes, one local fisherman has already answered that question for himself [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floridatreehugger.com/2008/10/04/biodiesel-alternative-fuel-source/</link>
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		<title>Fertilizer Ordinance to ban Nitrogen and Phosphorus on Fort Myers Beach</title>
		<description><![CDATA[         Many locals remember all too clearly the effects of harmful algal blooms (red tide) in previous years. Last summer Charles Hester, Chairman of Fort Myers Beach’s Marine Resources Task Force (MRTF) and Jim Rodwell, along with other MRTF members, attended a ‘Fertilizer Symposium’ where they learned about the linkage between red tide and nitrogen, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floridatreehugger.com/2008/08/04/fertilizer-ordinance-to-ban-nitrogen-and-phosphorus-on-fort-myers-beach/</link>
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		<title>Sugar Coating the Facts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This was originally published in the Island Sand Paper, Issue 381, May 30, 2008. Reprinted here with permission. A real eye-opener!
(FYI: Rupert Heine is a nationally-awarded photographer, twice nominated for The Pulitzer Prize. His Op-Ed pieces and editorials have been published in the Miami Herald, Minneapolis Tribune, and the Madison Capital Times. He has done [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floridatreehugger.com/2008/06/15/sugar-coating-the-facts-2/</link>
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		<title>Rob Stewart&#8217;s &#8216;Sharkwater&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
 
For those of you who believe that sharks are man-eating monsters of the deep, there is a remarkable film that aims to change that perception and portray these animals as the vital creatures they truly are. ‘Sharkwater’ is the brainchild of director Rob Stewart and the result of a four-year long effort to educate people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floridatreehugger.com/2008/05/31/43/</link>
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		<title>Sen. Bill Nelson: It&#8217;s a delusion to think drilling will help ease current oil crisis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Senator Nelson sent this to us yesterday and we published it in the Sand Paper:
Start drilling.&#8221; Put those oil rigs off the protected beaches of Florida and in the preserved wilds of Alaska.In essence, that is what Washington Post writer Robert J. Samuelson urged in his column published in the Post recently.Drilling, right away, in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floridatreehugger.com/2008/05/23/sen-bill-nelson-its-a-delusion-to-think-drilling-will-help-ease-current-oil-crisis/</link>
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		<title>There&#8217;s Something Smelly in the Southern Ocean Sanctuary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ There is something smelly in the Southern Ocean Sanctuary, and it is becoming an international incident. For the last four years, Captain Paul Watson and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society have plied these frigid waters near Antarctica, risking their lives to stop the illegal hunting of whales by Japanese ships, which have defied the International [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floridatreehugger.com/2008/05/16/theres-something-smelly-in-the-southern-ocean-sanctuary/</link>
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		<title>Florida Renewables Key to 2008 Summit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This came from the Environmental News Service. Governor Crist does seem to be commited to helping our state be more green but some of the ideas presented here are not without controversy.
Florida Governor Charlie Crist  announced the 2008 Serve to Preserve Florida Summit on Global Climate Change. This is the second such summit convened by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floridatreehugger.com/2008/05/01/florida-renewables-key-to-2008-summit/</link>
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		<title>Florida Forever Passes and Everglades Restoration Gets Last Minute Reprieve</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ I cobbled this together from several news bulletins today&#8230;

The Florida House passage of Senate Bill 542 today effectively extended the Florida Forever Program for 10 years at $300 million annually. SB542 passed unanimously in the House today and unanimously in the Senate April 23.
 
The pending $65 billion General Appropriations Act allocates $300 million to Florida [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floridatreehugger.com/2008/04/30/florida-forever-passes-and-everglades-restoration-gets-last-minute-reprieve/</link>
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		<title>How Do We Stay Green in the Drought?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the Florida drought enters its 3rd blistering year, water restrictions continue to tighten, leaving many folks in fear of seeing all their beautiful plants die and putting lush-lawn aficionados in a positive tizzy. There are things we can do to stay green, however. On Saturday, March 1, 2008, Florida Gulf Coast University held its [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floridatreehugger.com/2008/04/28/how-do-we-stay-green-in-the-drought/</link>
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