My co-editor Trish is a nice person with good intentions who wants to save the environment. Which is why she signed up a couple of years ago for Florida Power & Light’s Sunshine Energy program that was intended to support development of alternative energy sources. About 39,000 other Floridians joined Trish in adding an additional […]

My friend 82-year-old friend Renee (pronounced REE-nee, like it rhymes with “genie”) doing her part in the median of US-1 in St. Augustine

Is this the future for Florida?
A chemical tanker collided today with a fuel barge from one of three nearby refineries in the Mississippi River near New Orleans, causing the barge to split in half and spill 420,000 gallons of oil into the waterways.
A sheen at least 12 miles long spread down river, and the Louisiana […]

T. Boone Pickens has done the impossible. The billionaire Texas oil man changed my father, a man who listens to entirely too much talk radio, from saying that oil alternatives are so much flooey and we should get real and drill in Alaska, to saying we must look beyond oil for our energy future. This […]

Buck’s post on his family’s decision about which car to drive highlighted a question many people are asking. He and his wife chose wisely, according to an amazing web site everyone should use: www.fueleconomy.gov. Among other things, the site allows you to compare two vehicles side by side and see how much you can expect […]

I don’t drive much. I either ride a bike or walk to work, and confine my driving mostly to one day on the weekend when we run errands, do the grocery shopping and go to brunch at Burger Bob’s.
But we are a two-car family, though my wife also mostly walks or rides to work. The […]

On May 29, McCain said offshore drilling would have no effect in the short term. Just 18 days later, he said it would:
John McCain, June 16, 2008: Providing additional incentives for states to permit exploration off their coasts would be very helpful in the short term in resolving our energy crisis.
John McCain, May 29, […]

It’s like the old Charles Atlas ads where the big, muscle-bound bully of the beach kicks sand in the weakling’s face and makes off with his girl. Only in this case, the apparent injustice was well deserved.
Yesterday, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist probably expected a repeat of last year’s cheerleading session from California Gov. Arnold […]

Er, make that “snooze room.” Although I’m not able to attend the Serve to Preserve climate summit, Gov. Charlie Crist’s PR people are keeping my inbox full of the most up-to-date press releases about all the important, meaningful stuff that’s happening at the Hotel Inter-Continental.
Gosh, it’s almost like being there, but without having to pay […]