links to resources
We have an extensive collection of resource links we are happy to share with you. Along with links related to *specific meeting topics* and important **actions needed**, we have compiled some quick lists of community resource materials, local nonprofits dealing with community-wide issues, important sites, video, publications, and blogs.
Please explore the links below and feel free to make suggestions for new listings.
more topics of interest
- Your Florida Legacy, a guide to protecting what's best about Florida
- A Push for Civics Education - Randall Reid and Emma Humphries
community resources
web sites with valuable community, neighborhood, homeowner, condominium, or
civic association information include:
- The Price of Sprawl
- Growth in Sarasota not paying its way - Tischler Bise study
- Beautiful Ponds - lake, pond, wetland, and preserve management
- The Future of the Neighborhood - Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk
- The Urban Design View of the Neighborhood - Andres Duany
nonprofit organizations with community interests
- Wildlife Center of Southwest Florida (Paul A. and Veronica H. Gross Wildlife Center)
educational resources
- Arithmetic, Population, and Energy - Albert A. Bartlett - full in five parts
- Sarasota Bay Watershed Field Guide - Sarasota Bay Estuary Program
- Sarasota Wateratlas - New College oral history project
- Historic Spanish Point - archaeological and historical museum
* specific CONA meetings
Sarasota could be a hub for organic food production
Steve Suau — February 9, 2015 CONA meeting no video available of the meeting
important meeting on community vision
Alternative visions of Sarasota
Better Government Association of Sarasota County
February 21, 2015 - moderator: Wade Matthews
panelists: Charles Hines, Jon Thaxton, Bill Zoller
Follow four links provided by Sarasota County Action Network to video segments of this forum. An officer of CONA, Bill Zoller, was on the panel and three other of our directors or officers were present and participated in the passionate discussion. In the last video, Jon Thaxton presented our award-winning 1981 comprehensive plan map we should have continued to follow—but haven't—we need to return to using it.
Urban farming and food sources
- Porter et al, University of Copenhagen, Global Food Security, Scientists map food security, self-provision of major cities
SCOPE - Sarasota County Openly Plans for Excellence
- web site - SCOPE
Making neighborhood water features beautiful, natural, and healthy
- web site - Beautiful Ponds
- Ecopsychology - Florida Native Plant Society, Laurie Sheldon, November 28, 2014
Historic preservation adds value to your home and community
- National Trust for Historic Preservation - Why do old places matter?
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Compatible development outcome
after fifteen years of wrangling on the bayou
Jim Bridges, Joel Freedman join Jennifer Ahearn-Koch, Kafi Benz, Don Farr, Yvonne Lacey, and Pola Sommers — March 14, 2016 CONA video
- Tahiti Park neighborhood presentation - Jennifer Ahearn-Koch
Neighborhoods are sacred, to New Urbanists, the neighborhood is completely fundamental to planning. — Andres Duany
notable videos
Sarasota County production
How we feed red tide
Justin Bloom, Suncoast Waterkeeper
- Brunch for the Bay, Suncoast Waterkeeper, March 3, 2019
The Bradenton Times video of the entire lecture by Larry Brand
City transportation plan coming to Sarasota
Colleen McGue, chief transportation planner
- Sarasota prepares to shape a new traffic plan — Barbara Peters Smith
Blue-green algae and red tide blooms in South Florida:
environmental causes and health consequences
- University of Miami scientist links increase in incidence of algal blooms to development in Florida — Rachel Brown Hackney, The Sarasota News Leader, Friday, June 13, 2019
- Advanced Waste Treatment vital to limit red-tide impact — Richard L. Smith letter to the editor, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Opinions, Saturday, June 15, 2019
- Summit to address public health risks of harmful algal blooms Fort Myers Beach Observer, Bulletin, June 12, 2019
- Cyanobacterial neurotoxin BMAA and brain pathology in stranded dolphins David A. Davis, et al, PLOS, March 20, 2019
- A changing tide — Rebecca Renner, Grist, June 18, 2019
- Toxic Puzzle panel video - Calusa Waterkeeper Water Summit 1 - August, 2018
- Researchers Explore Possible Connections Between BMAA and Neurodegenerative Disorders — Mike Kiniry & Julie Glenn, WGCU, July 9, 2019
- Calusa Waterkeeper Summit, documentary debut set for August 5 Fort Meyers Florida Weekly, Wednesday, July 31, 2019
- Troubled Waters panel video - Calusa Waterkeeper Water Summit 2 - August 5, 2019
- Calusa Waterkeeper Summit explores impact of algae on your health Gina Tomlinson, Wink News, Monday, August 5, 2019
- Documentary about algae and public health debuts to sold-out crowd Amy Bennett Williams, Fort Myers News-Press, August 7, 2019
- Fighting red tide with sawdust and wood chips - Steve Suau, John Thaxton Earle Kimel, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, August 8, 2019
- Scientists think toxic algae may be to blame for Florida's stumbling panthers, bobcats Chad Gillis, Fort Myers News-Press, August 21, 2019
- Ties between Mote and Mosaic Warrent Skepticism - Dennis Maley The Bradenton Times, Sunday, March 31, 2019
Columbia Journalism Review symposium held May 9, 2019
Red Tide exacerbation Jon Thaxton at Fogartyville - October 6, 2018
a good introduction to the human factors that exacerbate red tide through the disruption of natural systems and allowing the avoidance of taking the known actions that would return the natural balance that would prevent the massive and protracted occurrences that are killing wildlife, disrupting lives and health, and devastating the state economy.
- video by Karen Bastis
Flodia Department of Transportation (FDOT)
weekly
regional news .
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watch this workshop
about CONA
presented at the twentieth annual state convention
of neighborhoods
demonstrating the resources such an organization can do to help neighborhoods
** take action on **
clean water issues
red tide, algae blooms
** read **
neighbors
helping
neighborhoods
since 1961
We encourage you to take action in order to help the effort for clean water.
** Please sign the petition to have an amendment added to the state constitution.**
Signatures of registered voters are needed on the petition in order to get the proposal onto the 2024 ballot so the voters may grant the right to clean water to all Floridians.
local contact: ronaturek at gmail com
** Red Tide Forum **
2021 - Waterkeepers provide
all the important information you need to know about algae blooms and Piney Point in two hours: watch this full video
Steve Suau and Jon Thaxton
developed a guideline for how communities and homeowners
can reduce and remove nutrient pollution
that has been published by Shafer Consulting and
is made available through the Gulf Coast Community Foundation
use these principles on your property and in your community
encourage your local governments to adopt them
- a series, follow the feeds
