By NICOLE ZEMA
nzema@thewakullanews.net

A Wakulla County institution specializing in environmental studies must be organically designed to embody the biodiversity that surrounds it.
Construction of the first building of Tallahassee Community College’s newest entity – Wakulla Environmental Institute – will begin in June, and is projected to wrap in spring of 2015.
Bob Ballard, executive director of WEI, has worked with the board of trustees to plan a high-tech campus in an old Florida setting.