At BB&T Center tonight?
Be sure to stop by the new #PathOfThePanther wall near North Main Doors. It features facts and information on how to #KeepFLWild + photography by @CarltonWard.
Decades of intensive agriculture and #deforestation have degraded around half of the world’s soil. It’s time we stop treating soil like dirt – our future depends on it.
#NatureIsSpeaking and Soil has a message for you.
" ... even if the new toll roads provide underpasses for wildlife to use, that doesn’t spare the habitat needed on either sides of the highway. And then there’s the question of the cost of the three highways." https://t.co/BEHnALLou9
Mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, & amphibians have declined by 60% in the last 40 years.
Nature provides global services worth $125 trillion/yr. We talk abt sustainable business but behave as if there is no limit to what we can take from nature. #DoSomething@wildlifedirect RT
Florida’s farmers & ranchers are crucial allies in protecting our natural resources.
Our Rural & Family Lands Program helps conserve lands & water for generations.
I’m asking lawmakers to fund this important program at $32.6 million, despite providing zero funding last year.
A pump failure at Virginia Key's 1950s-era sewage plant caused about 35,000 gallons of treated waste to flow into the lagoon near the old Jimbo's Shrimp Shack over the weekend. Miami-Dade initially blamed a power outage. FPL says the problem happened at the plant.
Black women (~7% of the US population) *still* receive only .2% of all US venture funding. So that means in 2018, of the $130billion that was deployed, Black women SHARED ~$260million, approximately the size of the last funding round of escooter co @BirdRide.
#MakeItMakeSense
@CarmenNibigira@HorwathHTLcorp@KenyonEnergy@babson "Today, wildlife represent only 4% of animals on Earth. That’s a startling statistic. Business as usual simply can’t continue because resources are tapped out and the repercussions of environmental degradation are devastating." - @ToriLinder (Path of the Panther)
Youth activists are striking for the future of our planet. Join them on September 20. Find a strike near you here: https://t.co/Sf4Yer1qKB
#strikewithus#answerwithaction
“I have this pipe dream that people will appreciate trees as living, growing, changing, responding organisms instead of seeing them as static,” said Kevin Griffin, a professor of earth and environmental sciences at Columbia University. https://t.co/GGmcnGAq7n
“Right now, we are ignoring #NaturalClimateSolutions. We spend 1000 times more on global fossil fuel subsidies than on natural based solutions. This is your money, it is your taxes, and your savings.” - @GretaThunberg#NatureNow@GeorgeMonbiot https://t.co/mWf5KII2JC
On my way to Capitol Hill. At 10h we’ll testify at The House Committee on Foreign Affairs. At 12h I will support Our Children's Trust at the Supreme Court. Then at 17h ET I will address Members of Congress in the Ways & Means Committee Hearing Room. #UniteBehindTheScience