Flagler College professor paddles 1,515 miles, sets record
An overgrown burial ground forty miles from civilization was not the most auspicious spot to meet a soon-to-be record-holder.
environment
Why I dive: Reclaiming food’s value and joy
It’s hard to see the value in food when you walk past aisles and aisles of it. The overwhelming volume of boxed, canned and processed items strip food of its value. There is more than one reason that local farmer’s markets, community gardens, heirloom fruits and vegetables and seasonal foods have gained in popularity. Meeting your food in this way creates a connection. It adds value that is lost in the industrial, consumerist agricultural system.
State Road 313 threatens St. Augustine’s Twelve Mile Swamp
A few miles northwest of Downtown St. Augustine is a pond shaped like a tear. If the Florida Department of Transportation gets their way, it will be sliced in half by a six-lane highway known as State Road 313.
The hopes and risks of starting a small business: ECO Ride
St. Augustine is the fertile ground which cultivates the growth of many unique small businesses. One particular local business, ECO Ride Taxi, is one.
Old city, modern concept: Sustainability as a new practice
Flagler College and the city of St. Augustine are following in the sustainable footsteps of several other Florida schools and cities as the “Green Movement” takes hold in the Nation’s Oldest City.
Local law enforcement says recent meth bust underscores growing epidemic
By Cal Colgan| jcolgan@flagler.edu
Davis Shores is a neighborhood in St. Augustine’s city limits littered with the towering-two story complexes and mowed lawns of middle class suburbia. But on Feb.17, police found that some residents of this community right across the Bridge of Lions had materials to make what some say is the worst drug in the world.