Water versus Chocolate: Comfort Food Without the Calories
A study released last week might convince you to ditch the chocolate and replace emotional eating with emotional drinking, of water that is.
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Sugar Futures Up, as Drought in India Threatens Supplies
The price rose to a three-year high of 19.4 cents per-pound.
Here’s Something New in Australia: A Plan That Takes Water from Agriculture
At First Aghast, Victoria Grower Leads Campaign in Support of Water-Saving Construction The sun-dried expanse between Shepparton and Deniliquin, New South Wales, is dotted with irrigated hay, wheat and other crops by Keith Schneider Photographs by J. Carl Ganter Circle of Blue Reports Northern Victoria is so flat that it takes a few days for […]
Florida Passes U.S. Sugar Purchase
WEST PALM BEACH, Florida — The board of the South Florida Water Management District just passed a deal to buy around 300 square acres of land from U.S. Sugar. They voted four to three in favor of the purchase, with one abstaining. But the deal is far from finished. The district’s bid of $1.34 billion […]
U.S. Sugar Deal Bittersweet, Florida Lawmakers & Growers Believe
As the state of Florida plans to spend $1.34 billion to buy land from U.S. Sugar, key legislators and businessmen cast their doubt before their ballot on the efficacy of the purchase. State lawmakers are set to meet, to discuss whether the plan can accomplish restoration of the Everglades or is merely a corporate bailout. […]
Everglades Get Sweet Deal in U.S. Sugar Contract
The U.S. Sugar Corporation has approved a $1.34 billion sale of 180,000 acres of land to the South Florida Water Management District. The management board is set to vote on the contract mid-December. According to the South Florida Business Journal, the deal should allow the creation of a waterway running from Lake Okeechobee to the […]
Australian States Legislate Rescue Team for Murray-Darling Basin
Victoria, the final state to sign a water bill that allows the Commonwealth to manage the river basin waterways, finally consented. According to the Australian Broadcast Corporation (ABC), the bill gives the Commonwealth the right to establish a Murray-Darling Basin Authority to control funding that should aid the drought-stricken region. Victorian Water Minister Tim Holding […]
Competition for sugar daddy: New bid may thwart government purchase of U.S. Sugar
As U.S. Sugar seeks to sell segments of its land, multiple interests are now wrangling for a bite from a plate the state of Florida thought it had almost already secured. A deal that has required years of red tape and fiscal creativity currently faces competition from a farming company from Tennessee whose bid may […]
Sugarcane plant, production, to remain as bid to save Everglades is scaled back
MIAMI — After months of speculation and planning on the part of Florida’s Governor Charlie Crist, a scaled back deal was finally reached Monday to help restore Florida’s Everglades. The agreement between U.S. Sugar and the State of Florida would keep the company’s basic operations intact for at least a decade. The proposal, reduced from […]
The River of Grass: Florida’s Everglades, clean energy, and sugar
WEST PALM BEACH, Florida — Efforts to restore portions of the Everglades to more historic conditions have prompted the state government to buy up United States Sugar and its 187,000 acres of land. Under the proposal, U.S. Sugar would continue operating as usual for the next six years, before turning their land over to officials. […]
Sugar-soaked Everglades deserve restoration, Florida governor decides
OKEELANTA, Florida – The golden days for sugar giants in Florida, who have made their profit at the peril of the Everglades, may soon be waning, reports Reuters. A long-time subsidizer of sugar barons, the U.S. government is paying more attention to the consequences its sweet tooth has visited upon one of the nation’s most […]
Everglades wrapped in red tape, significant restoration unlikely
WEST PALM BEACH, Florida — What seemed like a light on Florida’s ecological horizon has dimmed significantly. After years of equivocation, the state’s plan to purchase land in the Everglades from US Sugar will likely produce no change for yet another decade. In the end it may only rescue 150 square miles from cultivation. In […]
