EastBay is a new community focusing on energy efficient living, protecting the environment surrounding the development (as much as they can anyways), and a simple lifestyle that is just extremely appealing to me. Food for thoughts anyways...

McDonald's has decided to stop branding report card envelopes in a program that gave kids in Florida free food as a reward for good grades after a backlash from parents concerned about exploitive marketing.

Out of all 50 states Florida had the highest cost of living increases. Florida had a 6.0 inflation rate the cost of everything from gas to food has rose dramatically

Jack Davis is only 11, but he had a pretty grown-up idea: He was disturbed to learn that Florida restaurants throw out food that could be given to the hungry and the homeless -- because the restaurant owners could be sued if anyone who ate the food became ill or developed food poisoning.

A Brazilian berry popular in health food contains antioxidants that destroyed cultured human cancer cells in a recent University of Florida study, one of the first to investigate the fruit’s purported benefits.