All around Tampa Bay, it’s undeniable — this place is growing. Downtowns are growing. Lakeland’s growing. Brandon’s growing. USF is growing. The Tampa campus is one community where you can fully appreciate the transformative power of trees; the power to turn a school that students largely drove to to one they wanted to immerse themselves in as residents. Can you believe Tampa is the best tree city in the world?…
Community
Making the most of Arbor Day can be as easy as one, two, tree
A quick look in virtually any direction makes it clear: Florida is growing places. (As in trees are growing, plants are growing, gardens are growing…you get the picture.) That’s great for air quality, natural habitats, economic development and much more. And today, Arbor Day 2018, these are all things to celebrate. But Arbor Day is also an opportunity to spotlight a few important things you need to keep in mind…
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Community Environment
TECO team members stood atop the hill, looked around, and it was good
“I didn’t even know that hill was there until today!” said Christina Arenas, environmental program manager with Keep Tampa Bay Beautiful, as she surveyed the hard work by TECO volunteers and others to restore the natural habitat along the McKay Bay Greenway. Suddenly, with the removal of highly invasive lead trees and Brazilian pepper, new contours in the landscape revealed themselves – along with the power of teamwork to make…
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For Home
In natural Florida, building a bridge to a better habitat
Where were the volunteers? No sign of them from quiet Dickman Road in Apollo Beach. Did they vanish into the dense Florida wilderness? Pushing through the native scrub, clues were fleeting – signs of footprints, something resembling a trail. Wait. Amid the breeze in the branches and the calls of birds, the sound of conversation arose. Gradually it grew … until suddenly, there they were: Tampa Electric team members and…
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Community Environment For Home
A milestone of environmental stewardship expands to 100 acres
Just as Tampa Electric and partners pioneered a unique public-private partnership to restore Newman Branch Creek in Apollo Beach, TECO team members put the metaphorical cherry – native grasses, to be specific – on top. That was the scene on April 5 along a re-channeled estuary that soon will be teeming with fish and plant species that made the creek their home before development decades ago sealed it off from…
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