The Marjorie is Florida’s independent news outlet dedicated to social justice and the environment We are not a breaking news organization.
We know that to be a Floridian is to feel and face extraordinary environmental challenges. Impacts from the climate crisis, pressures from unbounded population growth, increasing tourism, intensive agriculture, extractive industries, habitat fragmentation, legacies of bad policy, and myriad other factors threaten our state’s ecosystems—and their abilities to support us. We also know that the conse
quences of these impacts are felt unequally and inequitably, depending on race, class, ability, access to resources, and other socioeconomic factors. Our mission is to report on Florida’s deeper human story, recognizing that the crises we face are not simple scenarios with straightforward solutions. We embrace the gray area, with all of its messy nuance and complex history. We believe that doing so helps break through the partisan noise, and helps Floridians make empowered, well-informed, and reparative decisions. As a woman-owned nonprofit, we prioritize underserved perspectives and feature overlooked experiences. Our name channels the fire, intelligence, and passion of Florida’s three iconic Majories: author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, conservationist Marjorie Harris Carr, and advocate Marjory Stoneman Douglas. We specialize in telling in-depth stories about Florida’s environment that consider human values as well as important historical and cultural contexts. As the stakes get higher, the demand grows for new and better ways to tell stories. We meet that challenge with an ever-evolving media landscape that is rooted in reclaiming Florida’s deeper story.
12/11/2025
Independent journalism is essential to Florida’s future. 🌿
For eight years, The Marjorie has told Florida’s deeper story. One rooted in nuance, equity, and the interconnectedness of our people and places. From the edges of our disappearing coasts to the tangled roots of our mangrove forests, we’ve traced how the climate crisis ripples through Florida’s landscapes. And the hearts of those fighting to protect them.
This work continues only with your support.
Through , every donation made between now and December 31 will be doubled, helping us reach our $10,000 goal and power our newsroom into 2026.
Together, we can sustain independent reporting that goes beyond headlines. Journalism that connects justice, environment, and the future we share. 🌱
Eight years ago, we launched The Marjorie with a simple idea: that Florida’s environmental stories deserve care, depth, and heart. Since then, we’ve grown into a community of readers, writers, photographers, and advocates committed to honoring this state’s people, places, and natural wonders.
Through hurricanes and heat waves, restoration projects and grassroots victories, we’ve stayed true to our mission: to tell the stories that reveal what’s at stake and what’s worth fighting for in Florida. 🌿
As we celebrate this milestone, we’re also kicking off , our biggest reader-powered campaign of the year. From now through December 31, every donation to The Marjorie is matched dollar for dollar, doubling your impact and helping us continue independent, women-led journalism that keeps Florida’s stories in focus.
♥️ Thank you for reading, sharing, and standing with us. Here’s to the next chapter together. 🌱
🔗 Double your impact today: https://themarjorie.org/donate-today/
🎶: Prism by Say She She
06/11/2025
🌿 𝘈 𝘎𝘰𝘥𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘴 by CD Davidson-Hiers
Candy Feller is a decades-long teacher, student, and illustrator of mangroves, and these coastal keystones' increasing need for protection keeps her marching. At 77, she’s still wading through the swamps, guiding new generations of scientists and reminding us why these forests matter.
Known as the “Godmother of Mangrove Ecology,” Feller has spent decades documenting and defending the tangled roots that hold our coasts together. Her story reminds us what we stand to lose. And the resilience that remains when we listen closely to the natural world.
This piece was supported by the Schooner Foundation and readers like you.
Now through December 31, your donation to The Marjorie goes twice as far through — helping us continue to tell stories that honor Florida’s people, places, and natural wonders.
This season, your support can go twice as far for The Marjorie. ♥️
From now through December 31, every dollar you give will be matched, helping us continue to tell the stories that connect Florida’s people, places, and environment. 🌱
In a time when Florida’s climate, communities, and democracy are all on the line, nonprofit reporting outlets like ours are essential. Your contribution helps us shine light where others won’t — documenting resilience, accountability, and hope across the state we call home.
✨ Double your impact today. Your gift fuels the stories that matter most to Florida’s future.
🔗 themarjorie.org/donate-today
01/11/2025
Today we’re kicking off our biggest reader-powered fundraiser of the year: NewsMatch a nationwide campaign to support nonprofit journalism. There’s never been a more critical time to protect independent newsrooms like ours — newsrooms that provide an essential public service to the state of Florida.
From now until December 31, we have an opportunity to boost the impact of donations to The Marjorie, which will help power our newsroom into 2026. Here’s how it works:
The Miami Foundation and will match your new monthly donation 12 times or double your one-time gift, all up to $1,000. That means that, through NewsMatch, we can meet our goal of $10,000.
If you’ve been thinking about becoming a donor to The Marjorie or increasing your monthly donation, this is the best time to do it. Your support will get our NewsMatch campaign off to a solid start and help keep us going strong.
You’ve seen the difference our coverage makes — holding power to account, uncovering untold stories, and keeping you informed. Now, we need you with us to keep it going.
Will you make a gift today and double your impact? ➡️ themarjorie.org/donate-today
30/10/2025
We’re so grateful to Cameron Glymph and Planet Forward for this thoughtful feature on The Marjorie and our mission to tell Florida’s climate stories.
As Florida faces rising seas, intensifying storms, and disappearing landscapes, we remain committed to documenting the people, places, and histories shaping this moment.
Read Cameron Glymph’s full story on Planet Forward: planetforward.org/story/marjorie-florida
📸 The Marjorie’s founders — Hannah Brown, Anna Hamilton, and Rebecca Burton — carrying on the legacy of Florida’s Marjories: Douglas, Rawlings, and Carr.
📝 Quotes by The Marjorie Co-Founder & Editorial Director, Dr. Hannah Brown. ♥️
✨ Starting Saturday, November 1, you’ll have a chance to support and double your impact through our NewsMatch campaign, a nationwide effort to strengthen independent journalism. Every dollar you give will be matched, helping us continue to tell the stories that matter most for Florida’s future.
22/10/2025
🌌 For centuries, night skies have been backdrops upon which we ponder our past and future. Stars, planets, and distant moons have propelled us to explore daunting questions about our place in the universe. But all over the state, and country, visible stars are winking out. Light pollution, the hazy skyglow caused by human light sources that hangs like an artificial aura over most urban areas, is increasing by nearly 10% each year. Unnatural light spills into our lives in unwitting ways, disrupting natural rhythms in our biology and in the environment.
In 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘋𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘛𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘴 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘭, writer Sarah Henry follows photographers, scientists, and dark-sky advocates who are fighting to preserve what’s left of the night — those rare stretches of sky where the Milky Way still spills in silver light across the Everglades.
From Groveland’s community-led dark-sky protections to the new light domes threatening Big Cypress, the story asks: What do we lose when the night is no longer dark?
Longtime outdoor writer, photographer, and fishing guide Tommy Thompson has spent a lifetime fostering love for Florida’s wild side. Through his writing, photography, and work as a trusted advisor, he’s brought the beauty and importance of Florida’s wild places—too often seen as land for the next subdivision—into focus. 🌱
In her latest story, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘢 𝘚𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘯, our co-founder and communications director Becca Burton reflects on meeting Tommy more than a decade ago through her work with Florida Sea Grant, a coastal education and research organization based at the University of Florida. It didn’t take long for her to realize that among those passionate about conserving Florida’s wild side, particularly in north Florida, Capt. Tommy Thompson was a household name.
Becca’s story captures how Tommy’s lifelong dedication to storytelling, stewardship, and connection has inspired generations to protect what makes this state extraordinary. ✨
Don’t miss this Saturday’s Florida Climate Stories panel in Tampa, featuring our co-founder and development director, Anna Hamilton. ✨
This in-person conversation brings together educators, researchers, and environmental journalists to explore how storytelling builds climate literacy, connection, and belonging across Florida communities. 🌴
There’s still time to join the week’s remaining free virtual and in-person events, from expert panels to community actions across the state.
🔗 Learn more and register: https://floridaclimateweek.org/
06/10/2025
🌿 Florida Climate Week™ (FCW) kicks off this week! is an inspirational week filled with expert panels to hands-on actions.
We’re excited to share that our co-founder and development director, Anna Hamilton, will be joining the Florida Climate Stories panel this Saturday in Tampa.
This in-person conversation brings together K–12 teachers, university researchers, and environmental journalists to explore how storytelling fosters climate literacy and belonging in Florida communities.
As the climate crisis grows, it’s also a challenge of imagination. One that calls on all of us to deepen our connection to place and envision ourselves as part of the solution. 🌱
The news of Dr. Jane Goodall’s passing hit us hard yesterday. 💔
Her life and legacy reshaped how we understand the natural world, and ourselves. From her groundbreaking research with chimpanzees to her tireless advocacy for people and the planet, Jane showed us that conservation is inseparable from compassion, justice, and hope. Her work touched the heart of our shared humanity.
Just last week, our contributing writer Marlowe Starling had the privilege of witnessing Dr. Goodall speak at the Forbes Sustainability Leaders Summit, and captured this image [second slide] of her inspiring yet another room full of people to keep working toward a more hopeful future. 🌱
At The Marjorie, her influence runs deep. She has shaped how we approach environmental journalism — with curiosity, empathy, and determination to tell stories that move people to action.
💚 Thank you, Jane, for showing us what it means to live in service of the Earth. Your legacy will continue in every act of care for our communities and ecosystems.
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The Marjorie is a woman-owned reporting nonprofit that promotes a greater understanding of issues related to women and the environment in Florida through storytelling and community building.
Florida is facing unprecedented environmental challenges. We see our state’s vulnerabilities in climate change, which manifest in climbing temperatures, rising sea levels, worsening storms and the spread of emergent diseases. Coupled with the pressures from unbounded population growth, increasing tourism, intensive agriculture, habitat fragmentation and myriad other factors, our state’s natural systems are in a precarious balance.
Now more than ever, Florida deserves a publication that contextualizes and casts a critical eye on the environmental issues characterizing our state.
So: a warm welcome to The Marjorie, an online publication that fills the niche for in-depth, thoughtful and sustained reporting on the state’s environment, from the inside out. Part-blog, part-news magazine, part-commentary, part-community, The Marjorie is the brainchild of three journalists and Florida natives, Hannah Brown, Becca Burton and Anna Hamilton.
Here’s a little bit about what you can expect from us:
We write about people doing environmental work in Florida
We infuse our own sensibilities, opinions and experiences through editorial work
We curate important environmental topics/issues/reporting in Florida
We consider environmental issues through specific lenses, be they historical, feminist or humor, to shine a light on new angles and perspectives
A crucial aspect of The Marjorie is acknowledging the role women have long played in Florida’s environmental movements. Our name is a tip of the hat to three women whose work helped define contemporary environmental advocacy: author and journalist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings; journalist, feminist and Everglades advocate Marjory Stoneman Douglas; and conservationist and activist Marjorie Harris Carr.
We use the Marjories as jumping off points, guides and inspirations, and celebrate their commitment to wild Florida—but we also intend to explore and complicate their legacies to bring nuance to the discussion of what we mean when we say “environment,” to whom those spaces apply and how we can do better moving forward.
The Marjorie is dedicated to bringing people together in the name of protecting Florida’s lands, waters, animals and people. We invite you to join our community of environmental leaders by engaging with us and participating in the conversation.
The story of Florida’s environment is sometimes tragic, sometimes triumphant. Wherever we go from here, The Marjorie will be there, too, documenting the progress and missteps, and offering insight.
