Table of Contents Beaches Local Food Network ..................................................................................................................................... 3 City Beautiful Jax ............................................................................................................................................................ 4 City of Jacksonville Environmental Protection Board ....................................................................................... 5 Duval Audubon Society ................................................................................................................................................ 6 Duval County Extension ............................................................................................................................................... 7 First Coast Invasive Working Group ........................................................................................................................ 8 Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Northeast District ........................................................ 9 Florida Department of Environmental Protection -Northeast Florida Aquatic Preserves ................. 10 Florida Native Plant Society, Ixia Chapter ........................................................................................................... 11 Florida Water Star ....................................................................................................................................................... 12 GREENSCAPE OF JACKSONVILLE, INC. ................................................................................................................... 13 Green Team Project ..................................................................................................................................................... 14 Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve (GTM Research Reserve) ........... 15 Jacksonville University .............................................................................................................................................. 16 Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens .................................................................................................................................. 17 JumpingFish ................................................................................................................................................................... 18 Keep Jacksonville Beautiful ...................................................................................................................................... 19 Marine Science Research Institute Jacksonville University .......................................................................... 20 National Park Service - Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve ......................................................... 21 Native and Uncommon Plants .................................................................................................................................. 22 Northeast Florida Green Chamber ......................................................................................................................... 23 North Florida Land Trust .......................................................................................................................................... 24 Public Trust Environmental Legal Institute of Florida, Inc. .......................................................................... 25 River City Eco Fest & Challenge ............................................................................................................................... 26 Sierra Club Northeast Florida Group ..................................................................................................................... 27 St. Johns Housing Partnership ................................................................................................................................. 28 St. Johns River Alliance .............................................................................................................................................. 29 St. Johns Riverkeeper ................................................................................................................................................. 30 Surfrider Foundation, First Coast Chapter .......................................................................................................... 31 Teacher Supply Depot, Duval County Public Schools ...................................................................................... 32 The Girls Gone Green .................................................................................................................................................. 33 Timucuan Trail Parks Foundation ......................................................................................................................... 34 TransForm Jax ............................................................................................................................................................... 35 Tree Hill INC. .................................................................................................................................................................. 36 U.S. Green Building Council North FL Chapter ................................................................................................... 37 UNF Environmental Center ....................................................................................................................................... 38 Beaches Local Food Network Devon Ritch, Director Jarboe Park 301 Florida Blvd Neptune Beach, FL 32266 P.O. Box 50343 Jacksonville Beach, FL 32240 (904) 710-2022 [email protected] www.beacheslocalfoodnetwork.org Facebook: Beaches Local Food Network Twitter: @BeachesMarket Vision We aim to create healthy community spaces, where people of all ages and backgrounds can come together in order to share knowledge, seeds, resources, and passions that ultimately lead to nutritious food on the table. Mission The mission of Beaches Local Food Network is to address the long-term goal of local food security in our community by creating educational programs for children and adults, connecting farmers to consumers, and building community and school gardens. Short Description To work towards our mission, BLFN runs the Beaches Green Market every Saturday from 2-5pm, year round, rain or shine! We also run the Beaches Organic Community Garden, and a Children's Garden, through which we do outreach programs. 3 City Beautiful Jax Alicia B. Grant, President PMB #352 1650 Margaret St Suite 302 Jacksonville FL 32204-3869 904.388.1063 [email protected] www.citybeautifuljax.org Vision City Beautiful Jax is a non-profit, citizen coalition committed to creating, maintaining and supporting beauty and civic pride in Jacksonville. Mission City Beautiful Jax collaborates with communities to specifically identify projects and programs to be executed through public and private partnerships. CBJ helps raise awareness of the visual pollution problems that plague our communities, both business and residential. CBJ demonstrates that solutions are available and facilitates successful problem solving by neighborhood organizations. CBJ is firmly committed to the following goals ... I. Increase public awareness of the City's needs; II. Channel the community's demand for visual improvement into specific projects and programs; III. Encourage and support organizations devoted to beautifying the City; IV. Encourage local and state government to adopt programs which enhance the visual quality of the City; V. Advocate vigorous enforcement of City ordinances that pertain to visual enhancement such as signage, property maintenance, zero tolerance for litter, and landscaping ordinances; VI. Promote the importance of Downtown and Urban Core to increase the overall vitality of the City; and VII. Advocate policies which enhance and improve the visual and constructed environment. Short Description City Beautiful Jax (CBJ), founded in 1989 as JaxPride: A Coalition for Visual Enhancement, provides leadership and advocates for a superior quality of life in Jacksonville through visual enhancement of the natural and built environment. The community's demand for visual improvements are channeled into specific projects and programs within the organization through partnerships with the public and private sectors. CBJ advocates vigorous enforcement of ordinances pertaining to visual enhancement such as sign, property maintenance and landscape and zoning ordinances. While CBJ promotes visual enhancement of the entire City, it has a strong commitment to the improvement of the downtown's aesthetics due to its importance to the vitality of the entire City as the employment, cultural and entertainment center of Jacksonville. 4 City of Jacksonville Environmental Protection Board James Richardson, EPB Program Administrator 214 N Hogan Street 5th Floor Jacksonville, Fl 32202 (904) 255-7213 [email protected] www.coj.net/epb Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/epbjax Twitter: @epbjax Vision The EPB does not have a stated vision for itself at this time. However, through our actions we work to acheive a city where residents are taking advantage of the beauty the natural environment has to offer and they are doign whatever they can to preserve and protect the natural environment. Mission The mission of the EPB is to “Improve the quality