An island city’s billion-dollar route to climate resilience will need residential buy-in to succeed. Local places of worship could be pivotal.
Category: Florida
Posted inAlabama, Climate, COVID-19, Disaster Recovery, Florida, Gulf Coast, Louisiana, Mississippi, Public Health
‘Hurricane fatigue’: Gulf Coast emergency managers still rebuilding as they prep for more storms
Local officials are working to inform the public while still recovering from 2020’s record-breaking season—all on tight budgets.
Posted inFlorida, Food & Agriculture, Gulf Coast, Justice
How Pensacola’s Black grocers are providing access to fresh, affordable food
In a county with high rates of food insecurity, longtime residents are working to fill the gaps.
Posted inAtlantic Coast, Energy, Florida, Gulf Coast, Land, Water
Biden’s pause on new oil and gas leases may not apply in this Everglades preserve
An oil company wants to drill in Big Cypress National Preserve. Laws over mineral rights have complicated the fight to stop it.
Posted inAtlantic Coast, Climate, COVID-19, Florida, Justice, Public Health, Water
Racing the sea: Miami Beach’s housing crisis worsened by climate change
Nonprofits and city planners are working to create more affordable housing, but they’re up against legislation that rewards rampant development.
Posted inAtlantic Coast, Florida, Food & Agriculture, Gulf Coast, Justice, Uncategorized
The fruits of their labor
UF is just one of many public universities in Southern states that use prison labor in agricultural programs and on other parts of campus, or rely on products made by incarcerated people. Students and activists have pressured universities and companies to end these programs for years, but data on how public universities use prison labor is scarce.
Posted inCOVID-19, Economies, Florida, Food & Agriculture, Georgia, Justice, North Carolina, Public Health, South Carolina
‘Treated as expendable’: Migrant farmworkers fall through gaps in the rural South’s patchwork health system
The health care system and workplace safety regulations weren’t set up to help the people who harvest our food. The pandemic has only deepened the problem.