Video: New Project Restores and Beautifies Grassy Waters Watershed in Palm Beach
(West Palm Beach, FL) – Like the water filter in your fridge, the grasses and plants in the City’s Grassy Waters Preserve filter out pollutants from our water supply. In fact, the natural plant life is critical to maintaining the high quality of the water in the City of West Palm Beach. Maintaining the quality [...]
Pompano Beach Utilities Department to Receive 1000 Friends of Florida’s Community Steward Award
The City of Pompano Beach Utilities Department will receive the 1000 Friends of Florida’s Community Steward Award at tonight’s City Commission Meeting. Pompano Beach has been using reuse water for irrigation for 24 years, conserving over 10 billion gallons of water from the Biscayne Aquifer. In 2012, the City used approximately 505 million gallons of [...]
Public Meeting on Environmental Impact of rail service between Miami and Orlando on May 29 in #FortLauderdale
All Aboard Florida and the Federal Railroad Administration announce an additional public scoping meeting/open house in Fort Lauderdale as part of the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) process. The EIS will evaluate the potential environmental and related impacts of constructing and operating an intercity passenger rail service between Orlando and Miami with intermediate stations in Fort [...]
Our Florida Reefs launching community planning process for South Florida coral reefs
OUR FLORIDA REEFS, a community planning process for southeast Florida’s coral reefs is launching! Be among the first to join the online community at: www.OurFloridaReefs.org. You are also invited to a free, upcoming meeting in your community to kick off the OUR FLORIDA REEFS community planning process, hosted by the Southeast Florida Coral Reef Initiative (SEFCRI). OUR [...]
Town of Davie Earns National Wildlife Certification
The Town of Davie has just become the 67th community in the nation and the 9th in the state of Florida to obtain the status of a National Wildlife Federation (NFW) Certified Community Wildlife Habitat. The Community Wildlife Habitat team used the acronym WWIND (Welcoming Wildlife into Natural Davie). This hardworking team had booths at [...]
#PalmBeach County Schools opening new elementary school touted as “Greenest School in the Galaxy”
On school opening day, Monday, August 19, 2013, the South Area of Palm Beach County will be the location for the Greenest School in the Galaxy, the new Galaxy E3 Choice School. Replacing a 53-year old school building, the new Galaxy Elementary School will be a state-of-the-art campus featuring the latest technology of the twenty-first [...]
Secret Woods Nature Center in #DaniaBeach Holds Native Plant Sale
WHAT: In subtropical South Florida just about anything you stick in the ground has a good chance of growing, which is why so many plants classified variously as non-native, invasive, or exotic can thrive. Such plants may have been introduced intentionally. Australian pines, for example, were originally planted throughout the region as shade trees and [...]
Broward County gets an A/B in air quality; named one of top 25 cleanest areas in U.S.
The American Lung Association released its 2013 State of the Air Report and Broward County received an A score for ozone and a B score for particle pollution. Broward County is listed as one of the top 25 cleanest areas in the United States for year-round particle pollution and for ozone. The State of the [...]
Tours of Coral Springs Environmental Parks available
Starting Saturday, May 4, the Coral Springs Parks and Recreation Department is offering free tours of the City’s Environmentally Sensitive Land areas. The Sandy Ridge Sanctuary is located at 8501 N.W. 40th Street (between University Drive and Riverside Drive). The Red Lichen Sanctuary is located at 8095 Wiles Road, next to Whispering Woods Park, which [...]
Photos: Florida Wildlife action plans for 16 species – including burrowing owl, sandhill crane, fox squirrels – ready for review (@MyFWC)
Florida’s wildlife diversity is reflected in the 16 species of birds, mammals, fish, frogs and snakes whose draft action plans are ready for public review and comment. The Florida burrowing owl, Florida sandhill crane and Big Cypress and Sherman’s fox squirrels are included in the third group of plans to conserve imperiled species unveiled this [...]
