Category: Water

Encouraging Landscape Water-Conservation Behaviors #3: Developing Extension and Outreach Messages That Encourage Landscape Water Conservation Practice Adoption

by Samantha Murray
August 21, 2015

Message framing can be an effective tool for crafting messages for a target audience. This 5-page fact sheet explains how Extension can use gain and loss message framing to encourage Florida residents who irrigate their home landscape to adopt ... READ MORE

Category: Home Landscapes, UF/IFAS Extension, Water
Tags: Alexa Lamm, Courtney Owens, Department Of Agricultural Education And Communication, Joy Rumble, Laura Warner, Randall Cantrell, Sgrenrock, Water Conservation
Some home occupants are more bothered by their utility bill than others.

Using the Decision-Ade™ Segmentation Strategy to Better Understand Extension Audiences

by Samantha Murray
August 21, 2015

Decision-Ade™ is a tool Extension can use to better understand how residents with a range of household budgets feel about their utility bills. Analyzing households in terms of both income and utility bill "botheredness" creates a more ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Home Management, Money Matters, Natural Resources, UF/IFAS Extension, Water, Work & Life
Tags: Alexa Lamm, Family Youth And Community Sciences Department, Joy N. Rumble, Laura A. Warner, Randall A. Cantrell, Water Conservation
Figure 2. Ejemplo de fuentes comunes de perfluoro alkilos para el medio ambiente. En dirección de las agujas del reloj: (1) Sartén antiadherente (Teflón) (2) Tela impermeable, (3) espuma extintora de fuego, (4) envoltorios de comida rápida.

Contaminantes en el Medio Ambiente Urbano: Los Perfluoroalquilos

by Diana Hagan
August 5, 2015

Los perfluoroalquilos--los perfluorocarbonos (PFC) o, en inglés, perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs)--son los productos químicos artificiales más comunes y persistentes en el planeta. Algunos de los productos más comunes que ... READ MORE

Category: Health & Nutrition, Home Landscapes, Home Management, Natural Resources, Water, Work & Life
Tags: Contaminants In The Urban Environment Series, Gurpal S. Toor, Ignacio A. Rodriguez-Jorquera, Soil And Water Sciences Department
Figure 1. A photo of Lake Okeechobee, looking out over the western marsh region to the open waters of the large lake. Credit: South Florida Water Management District

Climate Change and Ecosystem Services of Florida’s Largest Water Body: Lake Okeechobee

by Diana Hagan
July 24, 2015

Future climate change could result in higher temperatures and greater evaporative water loss in Florida. If these changes are not compensated for by more rainfall, the state's largest water body, Lake Okeechobee, could experience prolonged periods ... READ MORE

Category: Natural Resources, Water
Tags: Climate Change, Florida Sea Grant, Karl Havens, Lake Okeechobee Drainage Basin
manatee

Third Grade Manatee Curriculum

by Diana Hagan
July 24, 2015

This 19 fact sheet curriculum series provides a series of individual lessons covering manatee biology and ecology, as well as highlighting some of the ways that humans impact and can protect manatees. The curriculum has been written at a third ... READ MORE

Category: 4-H & Youth, Curriculum, Natural Resources, Water, Wildlife
Tags: Curricula, Maia McGuire, Marine Wildlife, Ruth Francis-Floyd, Third Grade Manatee Curriculum, Threatened Or Endangered Mammals

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