Showing posts with label Sierra Club. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sierra Club. Show all posts

Thursday, January 16, 2020

Florida GOP Ron DeSantis Gets a D From The Sierra Club

Spent his first year in office building a green image and pitching science-based solutions for the state’s environmental woes, barely passed a test by one of the country’s oldest conservation organizations. HERE

Friday, September 2, 2016

Winners And Losers In District 6

Winners
Pat Kemp
Kate M Connolly
Betty and Kathy Castor
Ed Turanchik
Jim Davis
The Sierra Club
Hillsborough County
Tampa
--------
Losers
Bob Buckhorn
Ione Townsend
Donna Lee Fore
Local Corporate Dems
Tampa Bay Times
 La Gaceta
Brian Willis
Tom Scott
John Dicks
Kevin Thurman
here

Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Monday, March 7, 2016

Sierra Club Phone Bank to Stop SB1290

Hunting, oil drilling, timbering and farming in our State Parks?
SB 1290 would remove key environmental protections from Florida State Parks and is headed to the Senate floor next week.

 Strut your power! You beat
 the Florida Frackers,
 you can do this. Save Our State Parks. here

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Sierra Club's Letter To Hillsborough County Commissioners

In a letter sent to all commissioners, Tampa Bay Group Sierra Club Chair Kent Bailey urged the board to increase the amount of funding for transit options that would come from the half-cent sales tax referendum known as Go Hillsborough. here

Saturday, January 23, 2016

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Florida GOP Do Your F*'n Job!

Florida environmental groups filed a suit asking the courts to force the Florida Legislature to return Amendment 1 funds to a conservation land buying fund. here
----------
"We are asking for Florida’s courts to uphold the constitution as amended by the voters. The legislature needs to be held accountable for ignoring the will of the people." Serra Club Florida Conservation Chair Tom Larson.

Sunday, August 16, 2015

Join fellow air-breathers and planet-dwellers in Tampa

Tuesday, August 18 at 10:00am

The BIGGEST step to combat climate change by any president, ever! That's what President Barack Obama did when he unveiled his Clean Power Plan, the first limit on carbon pollution from our power plants, the number 1 contributor to climate change.

We just wanted to say thank you!
Join our guest speakers: Tampa City Council Chair Frank Reddick, Rev. Russell Meyer, Fmr Insurance Consumer Advocate Sean Shaw, Small Business owner Ken Conklin, moderated by Tampa Bay Sierra Club 
Chair Kent Bailey.

Join fellow air-breathers and planet-dwellers as 
we thank the President for taking the steps 
to reverse climate change.
----------
Tampa City Council, E Kennedy Blvd, Tampa
info

Pic: At the Cuban Club in Ybor city, Sunday, April 15, 2007
here

Monday, July 27, 2015

16 Lane Interstate Thru the Heart of Tampa

Important Public Meetings on Proposed 16 Lane Interstate 
Thru the Heart of Tampa
Tuesday, July 28 7:00 - 9:00 pm
American Legion Post 111, 6918 N Florida Ave
info

Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Tampa Audubon Party

Tonight at Nature’s Classroom in Thonotosassa
3 local environmental groups: Sierra Club, Audubon & Native Plant Society will be there, and so will Pat Kemp and Mariella Smith.

Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Sierra Club: Other transportation solutions should come first

Tampa Bay Sierra Club offers an intelligent, informed assessment of Hillsborough County’s proposal to increase the sales tax to pay mainly for road improvements with relatively little for mass transit. here

Saturday, July 11, 2015

The Sierra Club, Tea Party Love Fest

Kevin Thurman of Connect Tampa Bay, a transit advocacy group, said he hopes the Sierra Club executive committee members who voted on the statement consulted their membership before advocating for a gas tax for road maintenance.
"I find it very concerning and upsetting that the Sierra Club would require a tax for more money for roads before getting more money for transit," Thurman said he was also surprised to see the Sierra Club moving away from partnerships with transit groups and aligning itself with the tea party.