Beauty for Green Cove Springs
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My Earth Exchange was in Green Cove Springs, Florida, for the land, groundwater, and waterways poisoned for decades by the Solite Corp. and now targeted for a housing development. It is now an amazingly beautiful wetlands full of pine trees, cattails, swamp mallow, ferns, tiny wildflowers, turtles, frogs, and birds, where the Earth is performing her own cleansing, and a gentle rain fell as I wove a RadJoy bird and a heart into the padlocked gates. Neighbors came to see what I was doing and joined in. All around the area are new housing developments, where woods and wetlands are being replaced by large air-conditioned houses and green lawns. Ironically, the hazardous waste that poisoned this land may end up saving it and all its creatures from a similar fate (because so many neighbors have risen up to oppose development). I came away rain-soaked, but this magical place bestowed far more gifts than I could ever return.
My Earth Exchange was in Green Cove Springs, Florida, for the land, groundwater, and waterways poisoned for decades by the Solite Corp. and now targeted for a housing development. It is now an amazingly beautiful wetlands full of pine trees, cattails, swamp mallow, ferns, tiny wildflowers, turtles, frogs, and birds, where the Earth is performing her own cleansing, and a gentle rain fell as I wove a RadJoy bird and a heart into the padlocked gates. Neighbors came to see what I was doing and joined in. All around the area are new housing developments, where woods and wetlands are being replaced by large air-conditioned houses and green lawns. Ironically, the hazardous waste that poisoned this land may end up saving it and all its creatures from a similar fate (because so many neighbors have risen up to oppose development). I came away rain-soaked, but this magical place bestowed far more gifts than I could ever return.
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