Clean water is fundamental to America’s ‘scheme of ordered liberty’
By Joseph Bonasia, the Florida Rights of Nature Network The whole point of rights is that they are too important...
Goodbye, carefree summers—hello, ‘Danger Season’
By Erika Spanger-Siegfried, Union of Concerned Scientists Even though summer doesn’t start until Tuesday, Florida has already seen major storm-driven...
If we want to reduce heat-trapping gases, we need to distinguish between beneficial and harmful ‘renewable energy’
By William “Coty” Keller We are running out of time to act effectively on the climate crisis. Every minute, every...
FPL’s blockbuster pivot from fossil fuels will protect the planet and grow business
By Rosemary O’Hara You’ve got to hand it to Florida Power & Light, the state’s most powerful company. It may...
Upgrading our building standards for flooding from sea level rise will let us finance resilient construction with private sector green bonds
By a panel of six experts Persistent sea level rise presents protection risks to society with expected costs in the...
Death of whale near Key West highlights the dangers posed by plastics pollution and lost fishing gear
By Jon Paul “J.P.” Brooker, Ingrid Giskes and Nicholas Mallos, Ocean Conservancy In May, a 47-foot-long adult male sperm whale...
UN’s climate “Code Red” demands attention in Florida
By Rosemary O’Hara Remember Al Gore’s 2006 film, An Inconvenient Truth? Gore was the canary in the coal mine for...
Rapidly developing technology may enable us to extract carbon from the atmosphere and save the planet
By Bob Bunting, The Climate Adaptation Center CAC In the late 1970s and 1980s I was fortunate to be a...
People alone can’t prevent the dangers we face from the warming climate
By Mariana Nascimento, New York University Individuals must do their part to foster a sustainable society. After all, it is...
FPL: America deserves a better energy grid, not the current aging system
By Manny Miranda The pandemic dramatically increased America’s reliance on the energy grid. We are now working more comfortably from...