Comments on: Blue [Green] Revolution: Florida Must Act Now

By: Pete Monte

Pete Monte — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 17:14:03 +0000

Suwannee-St. Johns group of the Sierra Club serves Alachua county and the surrounding 15 counties. visit http://www.ssjsierra.org for more info. There are MANY groups in North Florida working hard and needing help. SSJ group meets the first Thursday of the month at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship on N.W. 34th Street.

By: jim adams

jim adams — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 12:29:54 +0000

Hey Rain — your uncle Jim here … and Arwen passed this on to me. I’ve been wondering what you’ve been doing with yourself .. being an activist and i am so glad to see you are being a quality Environmentalist, going for a long term sustainable planet, and as always, thinking and acting effectively and locally.

This is a good quality review of Ms Barnett’s presentation and thinking, and i wish you good skill and a dash of luck in bringing political Florida to the table to come up with a long-term sustainable future for Florida’s water — instead of the short-sight selfish greed the Florida is currently struggling thru.

I note that some of the most effective learning — even for Republican politicians — comes from being burnt by circumstances, particularly ones they have created . And even Republican politicians can sometimes learn from being burnt.

big grin, and love and peace, jim

By: Doug

Doug — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 22:36:47 +0000

Rain: Very well written piece. Informative and not hostile. What a joy!

By: U Lobacz

U Lobacz — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 19:02:22 +0000

This is an important issue all over this country. There will be a time in the future where people wonder how we could flush perfectly good water down the toilet with our waste. With all the technology for composting toilets and gray water usage, it is a shame that these things haven’t become common place and are written into our building codes. We’ll get into rain water usage at another time.

By: Lily Wan

Lily Wan — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 20:19:12 +0000

Cynthia Barnett is also speaking at Volta Coffee, Tea + Chocolate in downtown Gainesville (48 SW 2nd Street) tomorrow, Weds. Sept. 19th!

By: Jamie Beck

Jamie Beck — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 05:40:28 +0000

Cynthia Barnett will be speaking and having a book signing in Homosassa, FL (Citrus County) on Oct 15. It will be at the Wildlife State Park, 6-9pm.

By: Elizabeth Cori-Jones

Elizabeth Cori-Jones — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 17:46:00 +0000

Thanks for this article…it is informative and helpful….I’ll send it around our neighborhood, and anywhere else I can think of….Maybe get a speaker and form a neighborhood action group here, too. Wish I’d heard the presentation, but I am definitely aware of the need to tackle this problem.

We need state-wide grassroots education/action…is there a group already formed in Gainesville?