Visioning Florida's Future
The Century Commission for a Sustainable Florida is to envision the future of Florida. The task before us is to help our citizens and state leaders prepare for a continued increase in population and to craft a plan that meets the challenges and opportunities this presents. Our success and future depend upon your involvement.
With your help, our members will think boldly to develop innovative ideas. Our members must think practically to ensure that our vision becomes reality – so that it serves as a guide to leaders in the state capital on down through our counties, cities and communities throughout the state.
What will make our efforts truly visionary is the integration of your thoughts and comments. As citizens of Florida, it is your voice that our governor and legislators will listen to as we plan for our state’s next fifty years. Join us in our journey and help create a brighter future for us all.
Rick Baker, Chairman, and the Commission Members
Exploring the Gulf for Energy Options
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The Century Commission has been tasked by the Florida legislature to facilitate a dialog on offshore oil drilling and its impact on the state. Learn more about this important economic and environmental issue and how you can get involved.
Participate in the "Question & Answer" discussion format and provide your comments to the four researched categories.
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This report builds on guiding principles adopted in the Commission’s First Annual Report released in 2007. Work continues to help define a vision for our collective future and offer recommendations about how to achieve our fullest potential as a state. Recommendations offered in this report are as follows:
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Convene a Fact Finding Process to Discuss the Potential Impacts of Oil and Gas Exploration in the Gulf of Mexico
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Follow Up on Recommendation to Design Sustainable Communities and Buildings
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Follow Through on Florida’s Water Congress and Convene a Second Water Congress
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Continue the Identification of Florida’s Critical Lands and Waters and Pursue New Conservation Methods
Visit the Recommendations page to view the previous annual reports. |
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President Obama to Open Offshore Areas to Oil Drilling for First Time
President Obama's announcementto open vast expanses of water along the Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the north coast of Alaska to oil and natural gas drilling, much of it for the first time has added to the statewide discussion about oil and gas drilling in the Gulf.
Readthe recentCollins Center report on the potential impacts to Florida of offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Check our our extensive research on the subjecti and offer your ideas and opinions.
You can also read the full text of the president's speech or watch the news conference.
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