Low Impact Living is lifting off on Monday, March 3 at 10 am during a ceremony at Ted Moorhead Lagoon House visitor and environmental learning center and regional gateway. The Lagoon House, atop Ais Lookout Point and overlooking the vast Indian River Lagoon, is home to Marine Resources Council (MRC), and a developing Low Impact Living regional showcase.
“Low Impact Living will provide people, organizations, and whole communities with environmentally friendly ways to reduce their negative impacts on the Indian River Lagoon and surrounding region,” explains MRC Executive Director Dr. Laura Wilson. Low Impact Living will be featured at LoveTheIRL.org, and will be supported by the MRC Development Committee, charged with developing a regional network and resources to support the group’s mission and vision.
The new initiative supports a regional community vision: By 2050, the Indian River Lagoon, the environmental and economic lifeblood of the globally important east-central Florida region, will be restored to sustainable balance, providing an example to the world of what’s possible when people collaborate.
According to recent regional research, many people think the lagoon is a river, don’t know what a lagoon is, are unaware that historic progress is being made, and don’t think that there is much that they can do to help. “Low Impact Living will help unite the community to change that and empower more people to help,” said Dr. Wilson.
The vast Indian River Lagoon parallels 40 percent of the state’s Atlantic coastline from Daytona Beach to West Palm Beach and supports one of the most biodiverse habitats in North America. Unfortunately, by the mid-1980s, the 156-mile-long Lagoon and its regional habitat were severely threatened by fast-paced development and pollution. Manatees, dolphins, all types of fish and other marine life, mangrove forests, seagrass beds and birds were dying as a result.
In response, Marine Resources Council was formed in 1983 as a grassroots group of people dedicated to charting a SEA Change: Science + Education + Advocacy.
MRC is people working together to protect, restore, unite, and promote the IRL coastal community of east central Florida. Learn how and become one with the Lagooniverse at LoveTheIRL.org.
Ken Parks, Director of Development
Marine Resources Council, MRC
(321) 725-7775
People charting a SEA Change since 1983:
Science + Education + Advocacy
So that east central Florida may become one with the Lagooniverse
