Environment 
SEC fingers SIB man in $30 mil ‘green’ investment fraud scheme(0)
The federal Securities and Exchange Commission has sued a Sunny Isles Beach man, charging he is one of the key players in a $30 million scheme to bilk people nearing retirement out of their savings.
According to a report by the Reuters news agency, Wayde McKelvy, 46, of Sunny Isles Beach and Donna McKelvy, 43, of [...]
Aventura library will be in ‘green’ home in 2012
A 26,000-square-foot building set to break ground later this year in Aventura will include eco-friendly construction and sustainable materials to create the county’s first “green” public library.
When it opens in early 2012, the Miami-Dade Public Library System’s new Northeast Branch will be the first of its kind in Florida to obtain certification under the U.S. [...]
Ocean’s rise slower, but still troubling for Aventura, SIB
Low-lying cities like Aventura and Sunny Isles Beach got some limited good news May 15 with a report in the journal Science saying the threatened collapse of the Western Antarctic ice sheet likely would raise ocean levels “only” 10 feet.
That’s about half the previously predicted rise but still enough to put much of South Florida [...]