Environmental Issues and Protection

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Deep Dredge Opponents Release 'Battle for Biscayne Bay' Video as Senate Pushes Ahead

​The fight over Biscayne Bay is heating up.Environmentalists who have sued to stop the Port of Miami's Deep Dredge have adopted a new tactic: a public appeal for sympathy -- and funds -- to stop the controversial project. Meanwhile, a bill is barreling through the Florida Senate that will force a ... More >>

Mastermind 2012 Honorable Mention: Jonathan David Kane

Miami New Times' Mastermind Awards honors the city's most inspiring creatives. This year, we received more than 150 submissions, which our staff narrowed to an elite group of 30. We'll be profiling our honorable mentions, and eventually the finalists, in the weeks to come. This year's three Mastermi ... More >>

Deep Dredge Delayed: Port Officials Optimistic, Environmentalists Ready to Go the Distance

The Port of Miami's much-debated "Deep Dredge" will be delayed for months -- possibly years -- as a Tallahassee judge hears arguments for and against the project this August.Port officials tell Riptide that they are optimistic the project will still be completed on time. But a lawyer representing en ... More >>

The Dome: Miami's Only Truly 'Green' Restaurant?

​There aren't any caviar bars in Coral Gables, but Rachel Dominguez is changing that when on January 28 she opens The Dome Bar and Lounge on Miracle Mile in the heart of The City Beautiful. Other than The Restaurant in Setai Hotel in Miami Beach, The Dome will be the only caviar bar in Miami- ... More >>

Port of Miami's 2035 Master Plan Includes Manatee-Displacing Mega-Yacht Marina, Hotels

Like it or not, the Port of Miami is in for some major changes​If you thought the Port of Miami's deep dredging project was controversial, get a load of this.Riptide has obtained a copy of the port's 2035 Master Plan. It calls for adding three new cruise ship berths, a mega-yacht marina near downt ... More >>

Popular Liberty City Park Contaminated

By Theo Karantsalis ​If your child has visited a popular Liberty City park, the county suggests a lead poisoning test may be in order. Lead levels that are more than 200 percent higher than normal have been found at the 6.5-acre Olinda Park at 5100 Northwest 21st Ave., according to the Env ... More >>

Acqua Four Season's Earth Hour Dinner Offers Romance With a Cause

Image by Wovoc​Earth Hour 2011 is this Saturday, March 26 at 8:30 p.m. This global event started in Sydney, Australia in 2007, and has become the biggest display of climate activism worldwide. Hundreds of million people across 128 countries joined in the movement last year.It is difficult to imagi ... More >>

Tower of Babel

Image by Wovoc​Earth Hour 2011 is this Saturday, March 26 at 8:30 p.m. This global event started in Sydney, Australia in 2007, and has become the biggest display of climate activism worldwide. Hundreds of million people across 128 countries joined in the movement last year.It is difficult to imagi ... More >>

Chicken Kitchen Founder Named Entrepreneur of the Year

A rendering of the new, eco-friendly Chicken Kitchen. ​Chicken Kitchen founder and CEO Christian Mahe de Berdouare was named Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year in the Consumer Goods and Retail category. Each year, the award recognizes businesspeople who demonstrate extraordinary success ... More >>

Miami Has Some of the Most Polluted Soil in the World

​Will Miami ever have a sensible, convenient and popular public transport system? Not any time soon, but a lot of us have cars, so who cares? Well, the very soil under your feet cares. A new study out of the University of Florida finds that urban Miami has some of the most polluted soil in the wor ... More >>

Free Chocolates On Earth Day at Romanicos

We don't like to print out direct plugs for businesses, but free chocolates on Earth Day? Damn! Plus Romanicos makes great chocolate.

Truth, Still Inconvenient

We don't like to print out direct plugs for businesses, but free chocolates on Earth Day? Damn! Plus Romanicos makes great chocolate.

Say Hello to Your Mother For Me

We don't like to print out direct plugs for businesses, but free chocolates on Earth Day? Damn! Plus Romanicos makes great chocolate.

Jack Johnson Tour Stop Will Actually Make Air Cleaner in West Palm Beach

Even if Jack Johnson's mellow, acoustic slices of unbridled happiness aren't for everyone, at least when he comes to Cruzan Amphitheatre August 26 as part of his just-announced U.S. tour, he won't be screwing with our lungs. (We have a feeling that Lady GaGa fans will need more of a consolation afte ... More >>

The Miami Herald: Only U.S. Paper to Publish Climate Change Editorial (and the Sentence You Didn't Read)

via the GuardianThe logos of all the participating papers​In advance of the Copenhagen Climate Conference, which kicked off today in Denmark, 56 papers across the globe yesterday published a front-page editorial led by the Guardian calling for international action on the global warm ... More >>

Video: Off The Grid Noise Concert In The Woods of Fort Lauderdale

Check out this new video from the Renegades of Noise. They are The Adjective Noun and Fuck w/ Audio performing together in what they call an "off the grid noise concert in the woods of Fort Lauderdale Broward County, Florida 0% carbon emissions / zero carbon footprint."Warning, mute the audio out ... More >>

Bless the Beasts

Miami celebrates all creatures great and small.

Green with Envy

Miami celebrates all creatures great and small.

Bottled Water Gets the Boot

As containers and costs mount, tap water is the rule in eateries.

Hug a Tree at GLEE

The Green Living and Energy Education Expo hits Key West.

Fix The Green, Love The Green

Get off your butt, you lazy environmentalists!

Swamp Thing

Party in the name of environmental protection!

Clever Green

Florida is starved for electricity. Some eco-renegades are growing their own.

Planetary Protection

Do your part to reduce CO2 emissions

Go Green

’Cause good planets are hard to find

Slip on This Peel

’Cause good planets are hard to find

Fete for Foliage

’Cause good planets are hard to find

A Fish Farmer's Tale

Could this be the next salmon?

It's Easy to Be Green

Could this be the next salmon?

The Dumbing-Down of DERM

More evidence that the county's environmental guardian has abandoned his post

Shadow Dwellers

Is Miami-Dade County Manager Steve Shiver a lying little weasel? Absolutely, absolutely.

One Last Push

A decision on Homestead is imminent, and nobody wants to guess what will happen next

Honk If You Like Chickens

The Green Party stumbles toward election day

A Fine Mess

Georges William was fined $500 because his name was found in a pile of illegally dumped trash. Then New Times showed up.

Shhhhh: Nature in Progress

Would you keep it down! We're trying to have a nature experience over here!

Who's Afraid of Virginia Key?

The race to develop Virginia Key is missing only one itsy-bitsy thing: Public input

Trash and Cash

Small, independent garbage haulers have always had to battle the big companies, but now they have a new foe: the City of Miami

Giving New Meaning to the Word Trashman

A former top official at the Department of Environmental Resources Management is under criminal investigation for illegal dumping

Place Your Seatbacks in the Upright Position and Prepare for Meltdown

The busy new Homestead airport will be just five miles from Turkey Point

Letters

The busy new Homestead airport will be just five miles from Turkey Point

Letters

The busy new Homestead airport will be just five miles from Turkey Point

Goo Grief

There's a million cubic yards of toxic sludge on the bottom of the Miami River and you may as well get used to it

Into the Wild White Yonder

Hot off the press: A newsletter to entice blacks into the outdoors

Where's the Beach?

The true story behind the beach erosion explosion is politics as usual

Such a Deal!

The Old South Dade Dump is an open-air museum of pollution history -- and it's all ours

Did You Sully That Gully?

They're working to make Homestead Air Force Base pollution-free, but the military wants no part of the canal that flows from the base into Biscayne Bay

The Million-Dollar Flush

At last an agreement between the county and the feds over Dade's sewage mess. The price could make you gag.

From Sassy to Tallahassee

A brash young environmental administrator is handed a pay cut and a ticket on a fast train out of South Florida

Waste Erased

Scientist Brian LaPointe wants to tame the sugar barons, corner the cat food market, and solve the sewage problems of the Florida Keys