On MidPoint Monday we heard from one of the young people suing Florida Governor Rick Scott and others in the state government over their inaction on climate change. We had two guests: 18-year-old college freshman and climate activist Delaney Reynolds and Tampa-area attorney Guy Burns, a Managing Partner at Johnson Pope Bokor Ruppel & Burns, LLP. Reynolds is… Read more »
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Castor and Nelson on what if a Hurricane Harvey hits Tampa Bay?
On Thursday WMNF News asked U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) and U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Tampa) how the Tampa Bay area should be preparing for the type of storm that has devastated Houston. Here is Nelson’s response: “If a Category 5 hurricane came right into Tampa Bay, you are talking about enormous destruction. You’re talking about… Read more »
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Women’s Show 8/31– Hurricane Harvey – Desperate Havoc and Beyond Nuclear
Words simply cannot convey the desperate havoc that is besieging the people of Houston and the surrounding areas… Climate Change – regardless of your belief in the causation – is very real and simply cannot be ignored and disregarded. Everything about Hurricane Harvey underscores the warnings that meteorologists and scientists have been giving for years. … Read more »
Tampa mosque organizes Hurricane Harvey relief drive
A Tampa mosque and allied organizations are gathering supplies to bring to Hurricane Harvey survivors in Texas Thursday. Here’s the Facebook event page for the supply drive organized by the Islamic Society of Tampa Bay, Penny Appeal, and Love Has No Borders. To find out what types of supplies are needed and how people can… Read more »
Is Tampa Bay prepared for sea-level rise?
On MidPoint we continue our ongoing discussion of the climate crisis, including sea-level rise, and how Tampa Bay is preparing; or maybe it’s more accurate to say how it’s not doing enough preparing. Listen: In a major news story last month, the Washington Post looked at this exact question. It begins: “Tampa Bay’s coming storm…. Read more »
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Women’s Show 7/27 – Terry Tempest Williams on “The Hour of Land”/ Janet Redman on “Dirty Energy Bill”
Score one for the little people… all your protests and Indivisible groups demanding to be heard by your senators has paid off… but we have to KEEP UP THE PRESSURE…. I don’t know about you, but the politics of this time are draining my spirit and I am aware there is a disconnect to my… Read more »
Scientist Warns of Danger of Storm Surge During Hurricanes
Leading local expert on hurricane storm surge flooding risks The hurricane season began on June 1st and it lasts until November 1st. The potential for a catastrophe is huge here in the Bay area if a category three storm or higher hits us. By one estimate, if a major storm directly hits the Tampa Bay area, there… Read more »
King Tide Photo Contest in Sarasota-Bradenton
Photo Contest to Document Changing Sea Levels Next weekend, the West Coast of Florida will experience several king tides — the highest tides of the year — which will happen May 26th and 27th in Sarasota and Manatee counties. The Sarasota Bay Estuary Program works with local governments and other agencies to restore and protect the health… Read more »
On Saturday: Hands Across the Sand & March Against Monsanto
We look at two events coming up this weekend; our guests talk about several local actions for March Against Monsanto and for Hands Across the Sand. Christine Wall, is helping to organize March Against Monsanto in Tampa. Here’s a list of several local events: *March Against Monsanto – Tampa – Gaslight Square Park (Downtown Tampa). Festivities start at… Read more »
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From a Woman’s POV 5/11-Assaults on Democracy and Net Neutrality
Trump…Trump…Trump…the Trumps are Marching… The assaults on our democracy are coming like machine gun fire – the separation of church and state. Last week on National Prayer Day, the president signed a “religious freedom” executive order. Many breathed a sigh of relief – it could have been so much worse, but attacking the Johnson Amendment… Read more »
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Climate Change with Medea Benjamin + Social Security in Jeopardy on the Women’s Show
Climate Change is Real – no matter who is in office, no matter who gets or has nuclear weapons, no matter the deniers and the obfuscators… Its effects are accelerating and it is the single biggest danger to life on this planet. You’ve marched for a lot of things recently, but just as women stood… Read more »
People’s Climate March in Tampa Saturday
On Saturday there are at least three local marches in the Tampa Bay area in solidarity with the People’s Climate March in Washington, D.C. In Sarasota, St. Petersburg and Tampa people will gather to draw attention to skyrocketing carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere, rising air, land and ocean temperatures, ocean acidification, rising sea levels and… Read more »
Women’s Show 4/20 – Connie May Fowler and Deepwater Horizon Blowout
Thursday, April 20th is the 7th anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon Blowout… What is the status of the gulf, particularly the health of all the living occupants? The dead can’t tell their stories, can they? Saturday, April 22nd is Earth Day. Is it ironic that we are having a March for Science to respect the… Read more »
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A Bonkers Climate, Weird Politics & An Honest Memoir on Life Elsewhere
“Never before in the history of the human species has climate set so many spine-chilling new records as last year, 2016.” The opening line from the latest commentary in Counterpunch by Robert Hunziker. The environmental journalist and frequent contributor to Life Elsewhere goes on to liken the Trump administration’s behavior and policies to America’s 19th… Read more »
