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Editorial: What Have We Learned? September 3rd, 2005
Editorial: Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace August 17th, 2005
Editorial: What Is a Consultant to Do? July 5th, 2005
Editorial: Six Land Use Petitions in Play June 25th, 2005
Editorial: Poaching & Plagiarism June 13th, 2005
Editorial: Upward and Onward in 2005 May 24th, 2005
Editorial: Farewell Maureen May 17th, 2005
Editorial: Speaking About Speak Out May 10th, 2005
Editorial: Informed Voters Wanted March 26th, 2005
Editorial: Health Needs Survey Well Received February 12th, 2005
Editorial: Fire Protection, Fire Insurance and Tax Justice January 25th, 2005
Editorial: Cedar Key Health Service Survey January 14th, 2005
Editorial: New Year`s Resolution December 31st, 2004
Editorial: Do We Need Better Healthcare in Cedar Key? December 16th, 2004
Editorial: Help Defend Us October 29th, 2004
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Editorial: Earth Day 2010 | Editorial: Earth Day 2010Editorial Earth Day 2010 Earth Day, April 22, marks the fortieth year that people have set aside a day to recognize the need for stewardship of the communal home that we share on Earth. That stewardship was recognized by a very early tourist that arrived in Cedar Key in 1867, namely John Muir. Muir later founded the Sierra Club and persuaded Presidents to protect the natural resources and beauty of our country. The conservation movement, begun by Muir and other far-sighted souls, has expanded far beyond preservation of wild lands. We now see the need to protect our rivers and beaches from pollution. Game laws, fishing limits and endangered species legislation are now recognized as necessary to counteract selfish and thoughtless assaults on nature. Recall the whaling industry`s excesses or the pollution of an Ohio river to the point it caught fire. Both cases relate to human demand for energy, in the form of whole oil and kerosene. The conservation movement has grown to include efforts to dampen if not stop the population explosion and establish a sustainable life style. Populations have stabilized in most "developed" nations, a sign of progress. Mountains of trash in the form of sanitary land-fills demonstrate that a sustainable life style is an ideal not yet attained. The Cedar Key Commission has taken a step toward a sustainable life style, and our reputation as a green city, by voting to try once-a-week garbage collection. Once-a-week collection encourages recycling of waste. Furthermore, once-a-week collection reduces the volume of waste taken to the dump and cuts fuel consumption by lumbering garbage trucks. On April 22, Earth Day, we need to give thanks to John Muir for National Parks and wildlife refuges. We need to thank the founders of Earth Day for the expansion of the conservation ethic to the many ways to keep the Earth inhabitable. |
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