Excellent video from the Everglades Foundation re South Florida's fresh water supply -with a cameo by HB Comm. Keith London- that really puts things into perspective for South Florida residents, present and future

Everglades Foundation video: Everglades Summit: Water Supply in South Florida, 

February 1, 2012. February 12, 2012. http://youtu.be/UYP35yT8gFI

This film is one in a series created by the Everglades Foundation that is now at their YouTube Channel, http://www.youtube.com/user/EvergladesFndtn/ which I have since subscribed, has terrific production values and really puts things into perspective for South Florida residents, present and future.

One of the interview suspects, Michael Grunwald of TIME magazine, is based out of Miami and is the author of the critically-received book, The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise (Simon & Schuster, 2006)

See also:
GOVERNING Magazine

The Price of Greening Stormwater

Philadelphia officials hope the city’s redesigned stormwater fees will lead to imaginative private financing that will help rehabilitate watersheds.

By Tom Arrandale, April 20, 2012

http://www.governing.com/topics/energy-env/price-greening-stormwater-philadelphia.html


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When local govt. over-reaches: When asked why fake grass would continue to be allowed in backyards, but not in the front?, "officials had no answer"

KCAL-9-TV News video: Turf War? Glendale Bans Fake Grass. November 17, 2011 12:49 AM

When local govt. over-reaches: When asked why fake grass would continue to be allowed in backyards, but not in the front?, "officials had no answer"

Because that would affect people who 'putter' around?

IU grad and former WPLG-TV/Channel 10 weekend anchor Rob Schmitt has the details on this curious zoning decision re sustainable gardening from the belly of the beast out in Cali -Glendale, California. That's a city that gave us one of the first real S&L/Thrift debacles, an

investigation I worked on in Washington, D.C.

Los Angeles Times

LA Now blog

Glendale residents ordered to remove fake grass from front yards

November 16, 2011, 2:17 pm

Some cities offer rebates for residents who install water-saving artificial lawns in their front yard. But in Glendale, city leaders approved a ban on the faux grass and have begun issuing warnings to violators.

Read the rest of the post at:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/11/glendale-residents-forced-to-remove-artifical-turf-from-front-yards.html

*My personal experience is that the LA Now breaking news blog of the LA Times is very informative and often provides a perspective that the MSM doesn't provide to LA-based stories that I hear about elsewhere.

So how come the Miami Herald and the South Florida Sun-Sentinel have nothing like it? http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/

See Artificial Turf Demonstration Project - SYNLawn on the City of Glendale website: http://www.ci.glendale.ca.us/planning/artificialturfSYNLawn.asp

City of Glendale, California Comprehensive Design Guidelines, Final Draft of October 17, 2011, includes photos:

http://www.ci.glendale.ca.us/planning/NorthGlendale/comprehensive%20design%20guidelines%20Sept28-post%20print%20corrections.pdf

Glendale Zoning Code, Chapter 30 -deals with artifical turf:

http://www.ci.glendale.ca.us/gmc/Zoning_Code/Chapter30-31.pdf

KABC-TV video: Turf war over fake lawn in Newport Beach. Jan. 23, 2008.

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local&id=5910717

The Cost of the Savings and Loan Crisis: Truth and Consequences

by Timothy Curry and Lynn Shibut*

FDIC Banking Review, 2000

http://www.fdic.gov/bank/analytical/banking/2000dec/brv13n2_2.pdf

http://www.fdic.gov/bank/analytical/working/

http://www.youtube.com/user/GlendaleCityzen

http://www.youtube.com/user/GlendaleCitizen#p/u