Valerie Anderson

Environmental Film Screening & Discussion: Filmmaker Devyn Waitt Join the Tarflower and Pine Lily Chapters of the FNPS for a screening and discussion with filmmaker Devyn Waitt.

We will screen her film on the protection of the Gladys Douglas Preserve in Pinellas County and hear from the ecological consultants who did the botanical survey of the property prior to acquisition.

Refreshments will be provided and registration is required.

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24.08.2025 20:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Interested in providing feedback on the native plant / ecological themes of an upcoming film on environmental activism? Join us at 2pm on Tuesday 8/26 at the Capen House of the Albin Polasek Museum in Winter Park.

24.08.2025 20:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Central Florida lakes are struggling. Engineers behind this new sensor system want to help Engineers hope the new, autonomous lake monitoring technology they’re developing will help keep Central Florida lakes clean — starting with the home of a historic open-water swim.

Another great article by Molly Duerig at Central Florida Public Media featuring a map by yours truly! www.cfpublic.org/environment/...

14.08.2025 01:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

OPINION: As long as developers in Florida run the show, rampant growth will continue Lawmakers say they are for "states’ rights” but SB 180 tramples on cities’ rights and efforts to rein in overdevelopment.

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11.07.2025 12:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Reporter Staci DaSilva of Channel 8 News / WFLA covers the negative impact that construction of the Central Polk Parkway could have on the endangered mint that only lives in one park impacted by current routes. We have been monitoring Blushing Scrub Balm (Dicerandra modesta) on this site since 2018.

16.06.2025 17:00 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

An endangered mint needs your help. FDOT is planning a toll road that would destroy the only remaining wild population of Blushing Scrub Balm in the world. There's a virtual meeting Monday & an in-person meeting Wednesday. Please attend one or both. Full alert with maps: www.fnps.org/news/alert/c...

03.05.2025 17:13 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

Monday we wrote a letter to the current Commissioner of Agriculture, Wilton Simpson with the subject: Continuing Lack of Resolution to Proposed Withlacoochee State Forest Parcel Swap. You can read our letter here: tr.ee/BDBAYK40K9

07.03.2025 23:06 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

I held an L-sit for longer than five seconds for the first time last week after working on it since spring of 2020

02.02.2025 14:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Watching the highlights of stage one and stage two of the Tour Down Under, the first cycling event to offer equal prize money to men and women ✊

19.01.2025 14:08 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Does fact-checking work? What the science says Meta’s planned shift away from third-party fact-checking on Facebook in favour of a crowdsourced approach has perplexed those who study the spread of misinformation.

Based on discussions I see on Facebook, threads, and Instagram, this decision by Meta is the catalyst for the people I know moving to Bluesky as an alternative social media platform.

13.01.2025 18:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It was smart, compelling, entertaining, insightful, and incredibly fun to read. Lesley has set up a website for the book, ordering is on Amazon, unfortunately. www.returntolakelulu.com & www.amazon.com/Return-Lake-...

09.01.2025 00:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Lesley describes 'Return to Lake Lulu' as a Florida murder mystery. Based on my knowledge how Florida politics work a la the environment, the mystery part of that wasn't all that strong. Despite this, I ran through the book like water through a sieve. [2 of 3]

09.01.2025 00:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Usually when handed a book written by a friend I feel more than a hint of trepidation. Seeing the author as the brilliant and somewhat eccentric lawyer Lesley Blackner whom I have worked with on environmental advocacy issues lessened my concerns. [a thread of skeets, 1 of 3]

09.01.2025 00:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0