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The Art of Life | Margaret Ross Tolbert April 6-21 at Thornebrook Gallery

Take time to enjoy the beautiful work of local artist Margaret Ross Tolbert, who specializes in massive-sized paintings of Florida’s freshwater springs. Many of her paintings features the mythic goddess of the springs, Sirena, whom she has also captured on film, screened recently at our Cinema Verde Environmental Film and Arts Festival. Come see whether [...]

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Cinema Verde film festival wrap-up

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The Cinema Verde Film and Arts Festival once again presented some real film treasures on the big screen here in Gainesville. No doubt some people might think that movies about the environment must be painful to watch and depressing, and so a person might hesitate to see these movies. True, they ALL remind us or [...]

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Come to the Cinema Verde Celebration!

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LAST DAY! Come Help Us Celebrate Cinema Verde!
Today’s events – Friday, March 2
4 pm YERT – Your Environmental Road Trip
5-7 pm Superfund Art Project, with a short film by Deep Green Director Matt Briggs AT Thomas Center, 302 NE 6 Ave. FOLLOWING THIS [...]

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Cinema Verde Environmental Film and Arts Festival returns | Gainesville.com

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Twenty-five films, eight days and one cause. Directors, artists, scientists and filmgoers will come together starting this weekend for Gainesville’s third annual Cinema Verde Environmental Film and Arts Festival.
via Cinema Verde Environmental Film and Arts Festival returns | Gainesville.com.

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Cinema Verde

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Cinema Verde 2012 will be held at Villa East, 301 N. Main St., Gainesville, FL. Plan to do dinner and a movie with us – food and beverages available from Celebrations Catering!
2012 Festival/Film schedule
2012 Film Trailers
VIP Passes and Tickets
Sponsorship Opportunities
Cinema Verde is a wonderful chance for us to celebrate the beautiful nature that is so [...]

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City Farmer: DIY Sourdough Starter and Chestnuts A’Plenty

Illustration of the American Chestnut by Krissy Abdullah.

Nov. 2011 City Farmer: How to make your own sourdough starter! PLUS: All about the American Chestnut. A bimonthly Fine Print column by Krissy Abdullah. Includes beautiful illustrations.

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Coming Back Down To Our Fragile Oasis – Images of Earth

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While still onboard the ISS, Peter Gabriel and I brainstormed some ideas for using this type of imagery to help tell the Fragile Oasis story. The possibilities are truly exciting, and I can’t wait to see where this leads. I hope it will help people follow our missions not as spectators, but as fellow crewmembers, [...]

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Green Drinks Nov. 2 at Prairie Creek Lodge!

Greetings Green Drinkers and Environmental Film Fans!

I hope you’re enjoying the fall as we are. It’s a nice time to cuddle up with a good movie, eh? I’m enjoying rolling into fall. I just spent a week on the road – an odyssey that took me to Miami for the Society of Environmental Journalists [...]

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America’s Next Eco-Star – Enter to Win!

Join the search for America’s Next Eco-Star!
Are you an eco-savvy individual? Do you have a friend or know someone that could be the nation’s future energy leader? If so, show us!
It’s simple. All you have to do is nominate yourself, a friend, or someone you know between the ages of 16 and 26 that you [...]

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Art in the Environment

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Mary Catherine O’Connor is following Christo’s progress with an art project:
In 1992, during a location-scouting trip, landscape artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude fell in love with the section of the Arkansas River that winds from Cañon City to Salida, Colorado. They imagined a series of large translucent canopies suspended over nearly six miles [...]

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“Play Again” Screening Again October 15!

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Cinema Verde and Paynes Prairie State Preserve will present a viewing of Play Again, a film about kids whose lives are immersed in technology getting out to the woods. We’ve selected this film as a complement to the local appearances of Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods, at and Prairie Creek [...]

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Students and Pros: Submit Your Environmental Film Now!

Cinema Verde will reward students who complete environmental projects with passes to our environmental film and arts festival.
We invite all Alachua County students to participate in our art, literature, film and conservation projects – contact us if you’re interested in learning more: Contact@verdefest.org. Thanks!
Florida, National and International High School and College students:
Cinema Verde has [...]

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Youth Environmental Summit

Join Cinema Verde at the Environmental Youth Summit on Satuday, October 8th, 1 – 4 p.m.
“We will be encouraging youth involvement in environmental issues and the arts at Environmental Youth Summit at Mt Carmel Baptist Church, 2505 NE 8th Ave., Gainesville.
High School and college students are invited to attend the 2nd Annual Youth [...]

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Monkeys’ business documented in new film

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The Hippodrome Theatre has gotten into some monkey business, and Nim Chimpsky is the source of it.
Starting today, the documentary film “Project Nim” will screen at the Hippodrome Cinema and run until Thursday. The film, directed by James Marsh, tells the story of Nim Chimpsky, a chimpanzee who was raised and nurtured like a human [...]

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Authors To Universities: Give Up Your Google Books | paidContent

In a surprise move, authors’ groups slammed their one-time university partners with a lawsuit demanding that the schools’ surrender digital collections and stop working with Google (NSDQ: GOOG). The lawsuit opens a new phase in the fight over digital libraries and comes the same week that Google’s controversial books settlement is expected to die in [...]

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HUGE CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

Huge Congrats to our own friend and colleague Christine Heinrichs, whose story Death Before Dawn, about the 2008 elephant seal shootings at Piedras Blancas, California and the ensuing investigation by NOAA was awarded third place in the Reported Narrative category at the 2011 Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference – which she highly recommends for all journalists [...]

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FILM: Economics of Happiness TONIGHT!

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Good morning, Gainesville!

I hope we’ll be seeing you ce soir at Paynes Praire for an encore screening of Cinema Verde’s Best in Show winner: Economics of Happiness, 7 – 9:30 p.m., tonight, August 13, 2011.

PLEASE NOTE: There will be only ONE screening of the film, beginning at 7 p.m., followed by a discussion until 9:30 [...]

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Safe Planet Campaign Uses the Arts to Explain Chemical Threat – Miller-McCune

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Check out my story on Safe Planet – TR:
Telling someone they’ve been poisoned in ways that could reshape their DNA and be carried on to their descendants — possibly causing cancer, neurological illness, mental deficiency, birth defects, brain damage and death — isn’t easy. But that’s Michael Stanley-Jones’ job.
via Safe Planet Campaign Uses the Arts [...]

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