Palm Beach County Environmental Coalition

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Sunday, September 23, 2007

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See what was lost to the Alton development in Palm Beach Gardens

Hand Fern, one of the endangered plants on the 700 acre site. Click image for PBCEC's report on development plan

Why isn't DEP monitoring FPL's Carbon Emissions?

FPL plant at the headwaters of the Loxahatchee Refuge

New view thanks to FPL and DEP from Stormwater Treatment Area (STA) 1E on Southern Blvd/SR80 which was recently opened for public recreation. [click image for more photos]

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Save Fisheating Creek!

After the long battle for public access, the Creek is now facing the threat of large-scale development in it's watershed, which is critical habitat for Florida Panther and Black Bear. No Blue Head Ranch! No more Cemex mining!

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Save Boca Raton Green Space
Stop FPL's Turkey Point expansion
No Eagle Training Center Committee
Progress Energy in Levy County

What DEP means to us..

October 27, 2008 DEP canceled a public hearing to accomodate FPL's WCEC expansion. They are the facilitators of Florida's destruction.

For info on FPL's West County Energy Center...

www.RIVERofGAS.info

Reclaiming Barley Barber swamp

Activists arrested fighting to re-open and protect Barley Barber from FPL still need your support

Old Growth Bald Cypress in Barley Barber

After the past 2 years of demanding accountability from FPL. WE WON a first step... Barley Barber is now re-opened to the public for tours. The next step is granting this waterway protection as "Waters of the State."

Everglades Earth First!

check out the latest from the Everglades Uprising

Coconut Creek residents and Everglades Earth First! protest Lowes Development

PBCEC supported Broward activists in fighting for the last remaining wildlands .. AND WE WON!

Protect South Florida's native rural landscape

High Horse Ranch, Indiantown.. Now threatened, along with dozens of ranches and wildlife areas, by a proposed (unnecessary) expansion of State Road 710.

"Welcome to the Everglades Uprising!"

a beautiful wildfire blazes across the Everglades Wildlife Management Area at sunset, in Broward County

a note on this webpage from PBCEC co-chair:

"With a healthy fusion of enthusiasm and skepticism, we have taken a small step towards establishing a consistent presence in the virtual world for the PBCEC. The site will contain a mixture of updates, announcements, meeting notes, calls to action, fund-raising pleas, and ranting from a local grassroots ecological perspective. Your feedback and input is valued, but please also keep this in mind (here is the 'skepticism' part):

Our power does not come from the internet, it comes from real-live actions, face-to-face support for each other at meetings and events and our physical presence in-the-face of ecological degradation..

So use this site as an opportunity to keep up with and support the PBCEC's efforts; but please do not use it as an excuse to keep yourself indoors staring at this electronic screen. In other words, i hope to see y'all out in the streets, where the real changes need to happen!"

from within the wild weeds of the saw-and-sea-grass roots,
panagioti tsolkas
sept. 23, 2007

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Palm Beach County Environmental Coalition Monthly Meeting

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Rachel

PBC GREENS LOCAL ACTIVIST CALENDAR

Click here for upcoming events

PBCEC fundraises at Moon Fest in West Palm Beach

we collected hundreds of petition signatures on Clematis

High School Students Join PBCEC at Juno FPL Office

Save-a-Pet Gala, Lantana

Crist was a no-show, but we were there and got great coverage anyway...

www.Reef-Rescue.org

Old Growth Brain Coral in Horseshoe Reef, off Lake Worth beach

PBCEC was instrumental in turning public opinion against the failed Biotech Research Park...

We filed lawsuits that are still pending against political corruption in the Scripps land deals. We exposed the crooked corporate biotech agenda. And we intend to continue keeping pressure on Scripps in defense of the Briger tract and in support of animals' rights over bloated pharmaceutical profits.

PBCEC joins with Animal Rights Foundation of FL to confront Scripps

Keep West County WILD!

FPL's "Gateway to the Glades"

West County Energy Center units 1 and 2 in the Loxahatchee Basin, 1000 feet from the National Wildlife Refuge

Everglades Earth First! activists enter Barley Barber swamp

After 5 day stand-off with Sheriff, a group enters swamp; several chains themselves to trees and demand FPL re-open the swamp and admit impacts of hydrologic alterations

Watch the film trailer for "Don't Expect Protection" directed by Suki deJong

This short film, featuring members of Palm Beach County Environmental Coalition and Everglades Earth First! won "Best Short Green Film at the 2010 Delray Beach Film Festival"

Martin County's Finest protect FPL's destruction of Barley Barber swamp

FPL claim ownership over one of Florida's last groves of old growth Bald Cypress, we hope to see this forested waterway turned over to the public and truly protected

Direct Action Gets the Goods!

Everglades Earth First! activists involved with PBCEC hang a banner on a billboard and over the side of a building on the southeast corner of Dixie Hwy. and Banyan in downtown West Palm Beach Monday afternoon to protest Callery-Judge and FPL developments. The protesters were there for nearly two hours before West Palm Beach police, with assistance from Palm Beach County firefighters, went up to remove them and carry them to jail. (Photo by Damon Higgins/PB Post)

PBCEC co-chair, panagioti tsolkas, gets arrested during rooftop protest downtown West Palm while sounding the alarm on Callery-Judge vote and FPL's sprawl-inspired power plant in western Palm Beach County. A day later, Callery-Judge was defeated in the County Commission. Litigation against FPL plant is still pending. Paul Revere would be proud... (Thanks to Damon Higgins/PB Post for photo)

Check out this piece of promotional material! Sorry FPL, it's not a very encouraging picture...

Tomorrow's plant may look more like a pile of rubble and a couple more federal indictments. And if we're to succeed in reducing our carbon emissions to level demanded to avert climate catastrophe, giant fossil fuel plants like FPL's Barley Barber pictured above will also have to go. It's time to wake up y'all...

This picture is from the FPL-owned Seabrook Nuke Plant, which had a recent accident...

The movement that successfully fought the nuclear industry 30 years ago, shutting down hundreds of proposed power plants across the world, must be revived against the fossil fuel giants--civil disobedience and all--if we are to avert the coming catastrophic climate change. The PBCEC will be hosting training to prepare for local civil disobedience protests locally.

Florida Carbon Emissions Chart

Governor Crist's Executive Order calls for an 80% reduction of CO2 emissions to below 1990 levels by 2050. This figure is taken from statistics based on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC).

Activists in Virginia put their bodies on the line to stop dirty power...

PBCEC activists joined the blockade last year to take a stand against mountaintop removal and climate change, this coming February, PBCEC will support Everglades Earth First! in hosting the annual Winter Rendezvous here in South Florida.

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