Florida legislators regard the trees as storm buffers and coastal habitat, and the Mangrove Preservation and Trimming Act safeguards mangroves and forbids their trimming by anyone lacking arborist certification. More than 500 violations have been issued since the legislation passed in 1995, with some businesses and residents hit with fines of tens of thousands of dollars each.
Read MoreWalking along a wooden path winding through Nease Beachfront Park in St. Augustine, Danny Lippi pointed to coastal trees sprouting from the shrubbery around him. The exotic species were brought here by warming temperatures — bringing business opportunities for the local arborist.
“All of these are mangroves,” Lippi said, surrounded by the young perennial plants, blooming with hues of green and golden yellows. “You can actually see that line where the upland vegetation just stops.”
Read More“It was like, akin to a murder mystery when you're trying to figure out AWS,” says Jadavji.
It was then that the CEO realized how colossal of a problem cloud costs could be. With the responsibility for infrastructure fractured across individual developers and development teams, it was tough enough to identify where fluctuating spend may come from. Another major issue had to do with predictability: how much would every new customer end up costing? This also proved to be tricky to predetermine because of the variability involved.
Read MoreWith 2020’s United States presidential election looming ahead, all eyes are turned to those who have announced their intention to run, and those expected to join in on the big money race. While deep pockets are an unspoken requirement for the contest, when push comes to shove in the final stretch, other deciding elements come into play.
Read MoreAbout four times a year, Clarence White loses customers from his auto repair business in South Wilmington because flooded roads prevent anyone from getting close. Consistent flooding in Southbridge has meant nearly 19 years of learning the best detours or skipping a trip to the grocery store for Diana Dixon.
Read MoreWhen Hurricane Irma destroyed the house that Tom Davitt was renting on Jacksonville’s Westside, it also wrecked tens of thousands of dollars worth of his uninsured possessions and forced him to find a new home. “I rolled out of bed because I thought it was my alarm and it was a tornado warning - and I stepped into a foot and a half of water,” the yacht broker said.
Read MoreWe live in a world where automation is swiftly becoming a given. Such a mindset is what Jerry Ting has embraced in his role as CEO and cofounder of 30 Under 30 Evisort; a cloud-based contract management system that uses artificial intelligence to extract legal terms and relevant data. In the span of six seconds, the application can pull out key information from a 30-page contract.
What these systemic failures do is steal away years of life from individuals caught in the crosshairs of a flawed criminal justice practice. Since 1989, 67 people in the state of Florida have been exonerated for wrongful conviction. Among those, 27 individuals were exonerated from death row.
Read MoreFor 30 Under 30 alumni Raza Munir, things have come full circle. The former Goldman Sachs employee founded Climb Credit - a company that offers ROI lending for collegiate students.
Read More“We're humans, and we like people that look like us, right? We feel immediate comfort and connection with people who look like ourselves. And that's where we look at the space in venture funding. We're not seeing a lot of people that look like me,” Anna Hu says.
Read More$9 million is on the line for those competing in America's richest horse race this year in Hallandale Beach. Launched in South Florida in 2017, the Pegasus World Cup attracts throngs of thoroughbred racing fans to assemble for a weekend of booze, bets and one of the biggest purses in the game.
Read MoreHeart failure is what landed Fort Lauderdale Airport wheelchair attendant Sandra Smith in the hospital three years ago. In an alarming brush with death, she slipped into a seven-day coma. It was in that single week that her overnights and treatments racked up thousands of dollars in hospital bills. Unable to afford her employer's health insurance on her salary, Smith woke up from her coma to find that she had not been covered by a policy at the time.
Read MoreFloor covering doesn’t exactly scream "hot" investment opportunity. At least at first glance. Perhaps that’s why the $60 billion dollar American industry is virtually unexplored by technology.
Read MoreMachine intelligence like this wouldn’t merely do pattern recognition, but would need to have a true understanding of what's going on. Only, how would that work? Is such a level of cognition woven into our everyday technology feasible?
Read MoreHistory was made on Friday, December 21, by Rise, a 30 Under 30-founded nonprofit advocating civil rights for sexual assault survivors. The team celebrated a crucial accomplishment: their lobbied Sexual Assault Survivors' Bill of Rights was signed into law by New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo.
Read MoreUnlike her peers, venture capitalist Masha Drokova isn’t best known for her daring investments or big exits. She’s recognized for something a bit more controversial: her past as a pro-Putin youth activist.
Read MoreSplashed across the sidewalk outside Hustler Hollywood is a long row of handprints and footprints in swaths of worn cement. A closer look reveals names belonging to visionaries. Iconic musicians such as Rick Springfield, Charlie Daniels, Peter Frampton, ZZ Top, Ted Nugent, and Jaco Pastorius have all left their mark on the stretch of pavement outside a store that now sells sex toys.
Read MoreTwo months ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a report that made the world pay attention to the trajectory of global warming, and what needs to be done to prevent harrowing outcomes. Increased risks of drought, floods, heat and climate-related poverty are projected to afflict millions if the temperature reaches 2°C above pre-industrial levels, with 1.5°C the implored limit to strive for.
Read MoreWe live in uncertain times. But through all the ups and downs, one man has remained reliable, if only in his inconsistency. That man is Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr., better known as Snoop Dogg.
Deliciously chill, Snoop answers to no one and nothing. His is a brand that has left a timeless legacy, defying shifts in popular music and aging generations. Loved by fans for being refreshingly devil-may-care, Snoop is someone who says what he wants and gives zero thought to consequence.
Read MoreImmigration has become a hot issue on a local, state, and national level. But Natalia Martinez-Kalina thinks the conversation, largely focused on undocumented residents and nationalistic tendencies, is missing robust economic insight. So she founded Immigrant Powered, a grassroots campaign launched earlier this month that uses a window decal to encourage community dialogue.
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