Natural Capitalism - Sarasota

Governor Charlie Crist setup the Florida Climate Change Summit which was held July 12-13, 2007. It had some very special keynote speakers... Arnold Schwarzenegger, Theodore Roosevelt IV and Robert Kennedy Jr.

You can watch some of the sessions here.

This summit setup the
Florida Climate Change Action Team you can follow what they discussed and here is a great list of supporting documents

It was back in April that FPL announced FPL selects Rothenbach Park for first Sunshine Energy® solar location I wonder what is going on? Jodi John are you out there? Please leave a comment.

arasota location will be largest solar facility in Florida; park is also site of closed Bee Ridge Landfill

JUNO BEACH, Fla. -- Florida Power & Light Company announced today that through its Sunshine Energy® program it has selected Rothenbach Park in Sarasota as the site for its first solar array. The park is located on Bee Ridge Road, east of Interstate 75 and is owned by Sarasota County. Today, during its regularly scheduled meeting, the Sarasota Board of County Commissioners approved the location for the site pending final permitting.

Thanks to greenerMiami I just found Planet Hazard its just wonderful what geeks are doing with google maps... here is a map of the Top Ten Polluters in Sarasota County, Florida

If you are a list person and like chemical names check this out Criteria Air Pollutants in Sarasota County, Florida

New Urbanism website has some solutions for global warming... seem drastic but they are all good ideas.

10 SOLUTIONS that are feasible, healthy, and sustainable:

1. An immediate and permanent moratorium on all new road construction and expansions.

2. An immediate and permanent moratorium on all new airport construction and expansions, as well as an end to all aviation subsidies. In addition, an end to the huge oil industry subsidies ($300 billion per year world wide).

3. A huge increase in funding for Amtrak and the immediate construction of a nationwide new train network across America connecting every city, town, and neighborhood with an efficient, state-of-the-art electric train network comparable to what is currently operating all across Europe and Japan. This should be built to transport both passengers and all the cargo now moved by very inefficient trucks.

Canopy Meg has a posting about:

Al Gore's documentary about global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth", will be showing at Sarasota's Burns Court Cinemas on Friday, June 23rd. Local experts, including New College's Dr. Meg Lowman are slated to participate in a panel discussion following the opening night screening, with other events surrounding the run of the film currently in planning stages.

The worldchanging blog has it's "The Week in Sustainable Mobility" for 3/26/06 which is a news roundup...

Here is a sample of the stories found there:

In the US, Accuweather forecast that the northeast US coast could be the target of a major hurricane, perhaps as early as this season. The forecast suggests that in terms of number of storms, the 2006 hurricane season will be more active than normal, but less active than last summer’s historic storm season.

Researchers at Georgia Tech applied a new methodology to the analysis of global hurricane data and concluded that the increasing trend in the number of category 4 and 5 hurricanes for the period 1970 to 2004 is directly linked to the trend in rising sea surface temperatures.