My friends and I spent yesterday hiking 14 miles roundtrip to remove 95 pounds of trash from the Coastal Prairie Trail, one of the Everglades’ toughest and most remote trails
My favorite part about Miami’s ongoing Trump indictment protests are all the out of town Trumpers complaining about hearing Spanish everywhere when sooooo many of those speaking Spanish are also diehard Trumpers
According to the
@washingtonpost
, rent increased 26.3% in Miami Dade County since 2019. We are the most rent-burdened metropolitan area in the country but thank God for all those crypto conferences, stadiums, spider bridges, and luxury high rises
This was one of my hardest mangrove cleanups in years: 380 pounds of trash removed from several abandoned camps that included solar panels, long-dead battery arrays, a chainsaw, umbrellas, fishing rods, and tarps. 24,625 pounds removed over 143 days
Marine rope does terrible damage to Florida's sensitive marine environments and is one of the most common types of trash I find in the mangroves. 25,840 pounds of trash removed over 146 days.
I’ll say it again for the people in the back. Stop. Releasing. Balloons. They don’t go to heaven. They don’t go to space. They fall in the ocean and mangroves where they kill local wildlife.
My buddy and I removed 510 pounds of trash from the mangroves yesterday. If you want to help, join us next Saturday for a group cleanup in Historic Virginia Key Park
Today I accomplished something I had on my bucket list since I was a teenager: bike 102 miles the length of the Oversees Highway from Key Largo to Key West
My picks for the former FTX Arena’s new sponsor: 1. Santa’s Enchanted Forrest 2. Valsán 3. Florida Center for Cosmetic Surgery 4. Churchill’s (RIP) 5. Alex Hanna 6. ¡Ño Qué Barato! 7. ¡Ño Qué Caché! 8. Rainbow 9. Palacio de los Jugos 10. Café la Llave
I've removed literal tons of trash from this protected beach more than a dozen times, but boaters keep trashing it. I'm worried about what it'll look like after Memorial Day weekend. If you're a boater, please pick up any trash you see, even if you didn't leave it.
I’m currently standing on a spoil island with 385 lbs of trash I spent the day collecting and no way to get to shore bc some asshole stole my kayak. Waiting on a county boat to pick me up. Also, it’s raining.
I've cleaned Bear Cut's pocket beach more than a dozen times. Signs are posted every 30 feet that say "No Trespassing." Yet, every weekend, you'll find dozens of boats unloading hundreds of people who absolutely trash this fragile nature preserve.
Yesterday, I removed 310 pounds of trash from an abandoned camp in the middle of Bear Cut Nature Preserve. This is illegal dumping in an off-limits habitat, but it happens all the time. 24,970 pounds removed over 144 days in total.
If Miami’s economy depends on tourism and the tourism sector depends on service workers, then where in the good Lord’s name are they going to live if we keep demolishing affordable housing to build luxury condos?
Yesterday I found a homemade raft in the mangroves. As the son of Cuban refugees, this hits especially hard. I just hope that whoever used it got to their destination safely
In Miami, affordable housing programs for struggling locals is communism but dropping billions of taxpayer dollars to build socialized stadiums for professional sports teams is capitalism
I’m getting pretty tired of saying it, but STOP RELEASING BALLOONS. They don’t go to heaven. They fall in the ocean or mangroves where they kill animals living there
I truly appreciate
@nbc6
and
@MyriamT51
highlighting my efforts to combat the deterioration of Miami's mangrove forests by removing 24,000 pounds of trash from these sensitive keystone habitats