Broward Directory Blog

This is a site dedicated to help the people of Tibet. 

The music is amazing and beautiful by Tibetan Singer, Dechen Shak Dagsay

http://www.for-the-people-of-tibet.net/ 

Geshe Yeshe Phelgey
Drepung Loseling Monastery, Inc.
1781 Dresden Drive
Atlanta, GA 30319
(404) 982-0051
www.drepung.org

The 43-year-old filmmaker will move to New Zealand for four years to make the films back-to-back with executive producer Peter Jackson.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies

He wrote and directed Pan's Labyrinth and directed the upcoming sequel – Hellboy II: The Golden Army.

For Residential use Only – No commercial vehicles
New Program – Saturdays Only – April 5 – September 27, 2008 from 8:00am – 4:00pm

Recycle branches, palm fronds, tree limbs and trimmings for free!

Disposal Locations:

North Residential Trash Transfer Station
2780 N. Powerline Rd., Pompano Beach
(North of Copans Rd.)

Central Residential Trash Transfer Station
5490 Reese Rd., Davie

South Residential Trash Transfer Station
5601 W. Hallandale Beach Blvd.,West Park
(East of U.S. 441)

For more information, call 954-765-4999 or visit Broward.org/waste

Program includes free disposal of yard waste, woody waste such as fencing and lumber, and bulky waste including large items such as sofas, chairs, mattresses, appliances and carpeting.

Free disposal is available to the residents of all Broward County cities except Pembroke Pines, Parkland, Pompano Beach and Hallandale Beach.*

*A current driver’s license/photo ID with a utility bill (water, electricity, cable, telephone) and/or tax notice are required as proof of residency (name and address must match). Any users without the required proof of residency will be denied access; residents without the required proof of residency will be required to contact their City for an Authorization Certification to be allowed access.

Water managers vote to ease water restrictions
By Andy Reid |  Sun-Sentinel.com
11:55 AM EDT, April 10, 2008

South Florida water managers today voted to ease restrictions and allow twice-a-week yard watering starting April 18.

Two months of above normal rainfall and a wet start to April buoyed water supplies and prompted the district to stop the once-a-week watering limits, in place since Jan. 15.

Under the new restrictions, odd numbered addresses would be allowed to water on Wednesdays and Saturdays and even numbered addresses would water on Thursdays and Sundays. Watering would be allowed between 12 a.m. and 10 a.m. or between 4 p.m. and 11:59 p.m.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/

By Ken Kaye |Sun-Sentinel.com

Saying conditions have become more favorable for hurricanes to form, Colorado State University forecasters William Gray and Phil Klotzbach on Wednesday called for 15 named storms, including eight hurricanes, with four of those being intense – or what would amount to a well-above average season.

Read the complete story from the SunSentinel: 

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/

There is a website called National Priorities Project. National Priorities Project analyzes and clarifies federal data so that people can understand and influence how their tax dollars are spent.

http://www.nationalpriorities.org/

How NPP began 

The National Priorities Project began in 1983 to help community groups understand and respond to federal budget cuts in Massachusetts communities.

Hampered by a lack of information on how federal policies affected local communities, NPP built a coalition of community groups in western Illinois that created the first-ever analysis of the impact of spending policies at the congressional district level. They found that over a two-year period, the First Congressional District had lost over $54 million in housing, education, health care and other monies.

Another website to look at is "The Cost of the Iraq War" to each US Citizen
http://costofwar.com/

I listened to CNN  about this site. It was mentioned that each American Citizen will pay $200 per month to support this Iraq War, but that does not include the debt that has accrued.

The Cost to Floridians – this will surprise you:

http://www.nationalpriorities.org/tradeoffs

Wikipedia.org offers more information about the National Priorities Project (NPP)

The National Priorities Project (NPP) offers citizen and community groups tools and resources to shape federal budget and policy priorities which promote social and economic justice. NPP is a nonpartisan and nonprofit, 501(c)3 organization. Greg Speeter is the founder and executive director of NPP. To read more about this project visit the link below:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Priorities_Project

In a triumph of special interests over public interest, the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, one of the most significant and popular conservation measures in U.S. history, was repealed by the Bush administration in May 2005. Issued in January 2001 following the most extensive public rulemaking in history, this landmark conservation initiative protected 58.5 million acres of wild roadless areas in our national forests from most commercial logging and road building. With more than one-half of America's national forests already open to logging, mining, and drilling, the rule was intended to preserve the last third of undeveloped forests as a home for wildlife, a haven for recreation, and a heritage for future generations.

The Roadless Area Conservation Rule was enacted following more than two decades of broad debate and three years of official review and public participation. It provided a national policy for national lands that was hailed for refocusing resources on maintaining roads while protecting wildlife habitat, clean air, and water quality.

The Administration's New Policy

The new roadless policy issued in 2005 left millions of acres of our last wild forests at risk from logging, mining, drilling, and other harmful activities. It replaces environmental protection with a voluntary process that allows governors to petition for protection of roadless areas in their states — or for more logging, mining, or drilling. In the end the policy does not ensure any type of federal protection for our heritage public lands.

One justification of the administration's repeal of the 2001 rule was that its fate was tied up in the courts. Defenders of the 2001 rule point out, however, that the administration has refused to defend it in court cases brought by the timber industry and its allies, breaking its promise to do so.

Most conservationists were not surprised by the administration's action. The repeal was consistent with a set of policy positions that favored resource-extracting interests through generous giveaways to corporations. The most egregious example, prior to repeal of the Roadless Rule in its entirety, was when the administration exempted the nation's largest national forest, Alaska's Tongass, from the Roadless Rule.

As a result of the new rule, millions of acres of public forest are now at risk of being opened to development. These include:

    * Alaska's Tongass National Forest, where the administration has proposed to increase logging in the world's largest remaining temperate rainforest;

    * Idaho's Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, where the administration has announced plans to open the largest swath of wild forest in the Lower 48 states to logging and mining;

    * Colorado's Rocky Mountains, where the administration plans to open to development a majestic landscape with trout streams, rock-ribbed trails and diverse wildlife that make it a premier destination for outdoor recreation.

For more information: 

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org

Learn more about how you can help save the forests

http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/ 

Without the everglades – life in South Florida will become a wasteland. It seems the State Government in all it budget cutting wisdom is going to cut any hopes of a restored Everglades.

 I read about it in the SunSentinel Political blog….

“The Florida House and Senate recommendations to cut…vital Everglades funding are shocking and irresponsible acts which completely fly in the face of the state-federal Everglades restoration partnership,” the joint statement reads.

http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/broward

I know we need money for Government, schools, and a host of other programs, but not working on this critical project is only going to cost all South Floridians in the long run.

Our Florida Legislature needs to get a strong grip on reality, I guess our long term survival is not politically important  – keep balancing the budget.

By the way, where does all the money go and to whom?