Resources and Links

Join us in keeping Port St. Lucie Beautiful! 

Check out the following links and resources:

Keep America Beautiful Links
1) Keep America Beautiful
2) Toolbox for Community Change
3) Litter Prevention
4) Waste Reduction
5) Beautification and Community Involvement

State of Florida Links
Charlie Crist, Governor
Jeff Kottcamp, Lt. Governor
1) Florida Department of Environmental Protection 
2) South Florida Water Management District
3) Water Conservation: Recycle the Rain
4) State of Florida official web site address

 

 

 

 

 

 1) St. Lucie County Recycling 
 2) America Recycles 2006
 3) Welcome to Recycle Florida Today
 4) Earth 911 – Making Every Day Earth Day
 5) Green Shopping Tips – Save Money and the Environment 
 6) Computer Recycling and Reuse
 7) Motor Oil Recycling and Reuse
 8) How to Recycle in Your Office 
 9) Battery Recycling

For Kids
1) Clean Sweep U.S.A.
2) Water Conservation:  Kid’s Page

Litter

1) Litter Hotline:  772-871-7000
2) Port St. Lucie Litter Ordinance 
3) Florida Litter Law 
4) Adopt-A-Highway

Landscaping

 1) Florida Friendly Landscaping 
 2) Plant Selection and Information
 3) Native Landscape Plants for South Florida 
 4) Native Wildflowers on Roadsides of Central and South Florida  
 5) Landscape Mulches:  What are the Choices in Florida?
 6) Low-Maintenance Landscape Plants for South Florida
 7) The Florida Native Plant Society
 8) National Gardening Association
 9) USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map
10)Florida Aquatic Plant Management Society

Trees and Shrubs
1) Selecting and Planting Trees and Shrubs
2) Pruning Landscape Trees and Shrubs
3) Native Trees for South Florida
4) National Arbor Day Foundation 
5) Trees Are Good

Palm Trees

1) Care and Maintenance of Landscape Palms in South Florida
2) Ornamental Palms for South Florida
3) Transplanting Palms
4) Virtual Palm Encyclopedia

 

Florida's Pests
1) Florida’s Invaders: Exotic Pests   
2) Florida Division of Forestry –  South Pine Beetle
3) Florida Department of Agriculture, Entomology, Nematology, and Plant Pathology
4) Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council

People and Nature
1) Audubon of Florida
2) Butterfly Gardening

Storm Water Runnoff
1) City of Port St Lucie, Storm Water Pollution Prevention