H₂O Zone

If there’s a theme to this month’s H₂O Zone then it’s probably the impact that changes in climate and weather can have on the places we call home. Not just Florida, but the actual bricks and mortar, timber and concrete we live in. 

Our latest H₂O Zone contains a collection of contrasting stories. While there’s always plenty to talk about when it comes to some of the extreme weather events we experience in the Sunshine State, you’ll know they aren’t the only items of interest we like to bring your way. 

There’s quite a lot of building going on in this month’s H₂O Zone, underlining the fact that, done properly, construction projects can have a key role to play in protecting the natural environment, rather than simply being imposed upon it.

There are lots of living creatures in this month’s H₂O Zone which is only right and proper. After all, many of the impacts of a changing climate tend to show up in the animal and plant kingdoms first, and efforts to protect wildlife can lead to solutions that make life better for us all. 

This month’s H₂O Zone is an intriguing mix of large scale projects designed to help protect and preserve the delicate eco-system of Florida, and smaller scale individual efforts aimed at making changes one step at a time.

In this month’s H₂O Zone we’ve rounded up a mixed bag of stories looking at sustainability across Florida, with many of them emphasizing the positive role that top down action can have in attempts to deal with the potential impact of climate change. 

In this month’s H₂O Zone we present a selection of positive stories highlighting the difference that can be made through a combination of ingenuity, hard work and political will. The political will takes the form of a renewed commitment to tackling red tide algal blooms, and the result of sustained state wide action can be seen in a report into the positive impact of the creation of the Florida Wildlife Corridor. 

This month’s H2O Zone is amongst the most positive we’ve ever pulled together, with stories from across the month highlighting a combination of scientific ingenuity, natural resilience and the positive role that can be played not just by committed individuals but also by bodies such as legislators and even the military. 

The February H2O Zone is packed with good news stories about sustainability and conservation in Florida, highlighting the varied ways in which we can all interact with nature and how that interaction can offer practical steps forward in the fight against some of the effects of our changing climate.

In the first H2O Zone of 2024 we cover a broad range of the type of stories which we like to bring you across the year. In other words, it’s a mix of the positive and the not so positive – with the emphasis on the former.  We're reminded of the amount of change a determined individual can bring about and examples of the power of technology to help us solve the kind of environmental problems that technology of every kind has often helped to cause.

In the final H₂O Zone of 2023 we round up a range of stories covering how the changing climate affects the availability of water for us all - the way we use it and the way we plan to use it in the future. As always, it's a rich tapestry of action and inaction, good decisions and not-so-good decisions. Here we go!

Many issues impact on matters of conservation and eco-friendliness in a place like Florida so it can be easy to forget something as fundamental as the water we all rely on. It's the reason we launched the H2O Zone! This month we focus entirely on water, from water usage warnings in drought stricken S.W. Florida to ground-up campaigns to secure clean drinking water for all Floridians and protect the natural springs so many of us use for leisure.