Leaders are working to improve Southwest Florida’s resiliency against climate change impacts while planning for a changing future, across our area. The sun, sand, and shore are all good reasons why people live, work, and play in Southwest Florida. So how do we make sure our slice of paradise stays intact? Dr. Greg Tolley, the […]
As part of the Southwest Florida Regional Resiliency Compact, leaders and elected officials from Charlotte, Collier and Lee counties will meet on Oct. 8 from 1:
And here’s a consumer alert for all you new pandemic parents: “
When parents first serve solid foods to their babies, they often turn to infant rice cereal. The iron-fortified mix is nutritious and relatively easy to feed babies unaccustomed to spoons or strong flavors. But the Food and Drug Administration allows 10 times as much arsenic in this favored first food as it does in other products, like bottled water and apple juice despite the fact that, as a neurotoxin, arsenic can have an outsize impact on babies, whose brains are still developing.” Read more at E & E News. Or, learn about making your own baby food, including from veggies you grow yourself. There are plenty of resources online and in books at your favorite local bookstore.
Resiliency Compact can’t wait
By Staff | Jan 20, 2021
To the editor:
The clock is ticking, literally. In cities around the world, such as New York, Berlin and Paris, giant clocks are reminding us the number of years we have left before climate change stops being a challenge and becomes a sentence, a death sentence.
Over the years I’ve kept a copy of a 2004 National Geographic with the cover of a burning forest that reads “Global Warming, Bulletins from a Warmer World.” I am sure the magazine started reporting on the issue way before then. Other issues had followed with similar headlines, such as “The Big Thaw, Ice on the Run, Seas on the Rise” (2007) and “Cool It. The Climate Issue” (2015).
Resiliency Compact can’t wait
By Staff | Jan 20, 2021
To the editor:
The clock is ticking, literally. In cities around the world, such as New York, Berlin and Paris, giant clocks are reminding us the number of years we have left before climate change stops being a challenge and becomes a sentence, a death sentence.
Over the years I’ve kept a copy of a 2004 National Geographic with the cover of a burning forest that reads “Global Warming, Bulletins from a Warmer World.” I am sure the magazine started reporting on the issue way before then. Other issues had followed with similar headlines, such as “The Big Thaw, Ice on the Run, Seas on the Rise” (2007) and “Cool It. The Climate Issue” (2015).