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DoomsdaysCW<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Composting" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Composting</a> program to provide <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Everglades" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Everglades</a> with soil for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CommunityGarden" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CommunityGarden</a>by Martin Vassolo, March 12, 2025"Your food scraps could be used to help support the Everglades through a new partnership between the village of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PinecrestFL" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#PinecrestFL</a> and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MiccosukeeTribe" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MiccosukeeTribe</a>."Instead of dumping <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FoodWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#FoodWaste</a> into crowded <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/landfills" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#landfills</a>, which produce <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/methane" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#methane</a> emissions, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EvergladesEarthCycleProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#EvergladesEarthCycleProject</a> will expand Pinecrest's residential composting program and deliver nutrient-rich soil to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Miccosukee" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Miccosukee</a> Tribe."Driving the news: The project, funded with a $400,000 federal grant and other contributions, calls for installing four new <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CompostingBins" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CompostingBins</a> in Pinecrest and three around <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MiamiDade" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MiamiDade</a> County District 7."The initial phase of the program will supply compost to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SwampyMeadows" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#SwampyMeadows</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CommunityGarden" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CommunityGarden</a>, which grows vegetables just outside the Miccosukee Indian School. "Another proposal that's been floated is adding new soil to the Everglades' tree islands, though that would need tribal approval, says the Rev. Houston R. Cypress of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LoveTheEverglades" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#LoveTheEverglades</a> Movement, a partner in the program."Cypress told reporters on an airboat ride through the Everglades last week that the tribe teaches 'the essence of being in harmony with nature is giving back to it.'"'With the Everglades Earth Cycle Project, we're giving back clean and healthy soil; we're giving products that might eventually improve the water quality out here, but we're also giving directly back to local indigenous communities here,' he said."Pinecrest already has two free public composting bins, one at the Pinecrest Public Library and another between the Community Center and Pinecrest Gardens."<a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/composting-program-to-provide-everglades-with-soil-for-community-garden/ar-AA1AKQrp" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/composting-program-to-provide-everglades-with-soil-for-community-garden/ar-AA1AKQrp</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Composting" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Composting</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CommunityGardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CommunityGardening</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FoodSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#FoodSecurity</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReducingFoodWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ReducingFoodWaste</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SolarPunkSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#SolarPunkSunday</a>

DoomsdaysCW<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SeminoleTribe" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#SeminoleTribe</a> gets federal disaster declaration for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HurricaneMilton" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#HurricaneMilton</a>October 11, 2024 Story by Dianna Hunt, Indian Country Today (ICT)"President Joe Biden has issued an emergency disaster declaration for the Seminole Tribe of Florida for recovery and relief efforts from damage wrought by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HurricaneMilton" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#HurricaneMilton</a>, which brought <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/rain" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#rain</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/tornadoes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#tornadoes</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/flooding" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#flooding</a> and high winds as it moved across Central Florida after making landfall late Wednesday."The declaration, released Tuesday, Oct. 8, will allow the Federal Emergency Management Agency [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FEMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#FEMA</a>] to coordinate disaster relief efforts with the tribe and will provide funding to help with recovery, according to the declaration."It is the fourth emergency declaration for the Seminole Tribe in the last four years, including declarations for hurricanes Nicole and Ian in 2022 and for the pandemic from 2020-2023."A statement from the White House said that Biden administration officials had also been in touch with the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MiccosukeeTribe" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MiccosukeeTribe</a> of Indians of Florida, the only other federally recognized tribe in the state. The tribe had not received a disaster declaration as of Thursday, though the tribe did receive a declaration in 2022 for Hurricane Nicole."Both Seminole and Miccosukee lands were in the path of Hurricane Milton, which made landfall from the Gulf of Mexico south of Tampa, Florida, and quickly moved across the center of the state before exiting into the Atlantic Ocean."The extent of the damage to the tribal areas has not been clear, though news reports indicated a tornado was spotted near the Miccosukee Service Plaza, a popular stop for food, bathrooms, and gas on the highway that stretches from Miami to Naples." [I've been there a few times as a youngster...]<a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/seminole-tribe-gets-federal-disaster-declaration-for-hurricane-milton/ar-AA1s3zcG" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/seminole-tribe-gets-federal-disaster-declaration-for-hurricane-milton/ar-AA1s3zcG</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Seminole" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Seminole</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DisasterAssistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#DisasterAssistance</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ClimateCrisis</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Florida" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Florida</a>

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