Offering effusive praise, state regulators Tuesday morning unanimously supported Florida Power & Light's proposal to build the first commercial-scale solar plants in Florida.
The South Florida Water Management District is considering making the twice-weekly limits placed on sprinkling your St. Augustine permanent. Workshops discussing the idea wind up at the end of the month.
With South Florida already setting summer heat records, power bills may set even higher records this summer. But Ken Fields, who lives in a three-bedroom, three-bath house on Miami Beach, has just installed a roof-top photovoltaic system and is dramatically reducing his energy consumption in a first step to going off the grid.
Q. I have a tall pine tree near my mobile home, and I'm afraid a hurricane will make it crash onto my roof.
The proof is in the worms. Walt Gregory is an organic farmer who challenged two neighboring farmers to a worm-digging contest. He wanted to prove that farming with chemical fertilizers destroys the worms and other organisms that are nature's way of enriching the soil, for free.
I am sitting in a big, comfy Adirondack chair on the veranda of a 1928 hacienda-style lodge looking out at a grassy savannah dotted with young pinyon pines, junipers and oaks. Deep green mountains dominate the near distance. A far-off dog barks, the wind sighs, a titmouse calls. At dusk, freeloading mule deer will turn up, as if on cue, to help themselves to a snack from the many bird feeders around the lodge. A few hours later, a bright, full moon will rise.
Rules for water use were relaxed Friday, giving most South Floridians a second day to sprinkle lawns and gardens. The South Florida Water Management District decided last week to lift severe once-weekly restrictions after several weeks of rain replenished groundwater supplies and stabilized water levels in Lake Okeechobee.
