A decade-old Cal Poly program that provides organic produce to about 170 households will end at the end of this month, according to a letter sent this week by the university’s Horticulture and Crop Science Department.
The letter to subscribers — who pay between $20 and $26.50 per week for boxes of produce, depending on size [...]
Consumers and businesses wary of toxics and eco-unfriendly chemicals have new places to research cleaning, cosmetics, automotive, food storage and other products.
San Francisco’s Environment Department on Monday powered up a website that offers guidelines on everything from hand sanitizers and auto antifreeze to light bulbs and garden hoses.
The site, SFApproved.org, was originally designed for the [...]
Great story for a college town!
“Imagine a retirement where you could have an extra $1million to $3 million in the bank with basically no effort. Now imagine telling your kids that you aren't going to send them to college. And, you go on, you want them to immediately start a business or get to work [...]
Poor people are more likely to live in contaminated communities, too, which can have a negative effect on IQ. -tr
“Studies emerging from around the nation are showing that growing up in a low-income household can have a direct impact on the organization and function of the brain.
Living in a poor home has been linked to [...]
Film maker Wes Skiles, who entertained Gainesville Environmental Film Festival attendees with his films, tales and wit last March, died while diving off Boynton Beach, Florida, on Wednesday. Skiles’ death is a great loss, and our thoughts are with his family.
“Photographer and Florida springs advocate Wes Skiles died Wednesday while filming off the coast [...]
In another nod to science and the practice of putting health and safety over profits…
“Columbia University has quietly suspended research at a nationally prominent brain-imaging center and reassigned its top managers after federal investigators found that it had routinely injected mental patients with drugs that contained potentially dangerous impurities.”
via Brain Center at Columbia Gave Patients [...]
Alachua County, in partnership with Florida Organic Growers, Abundant Edible Landscapes, UF Young Entrepreneurs in Leadership and Sustainability, and the Downtown Rotary Club, will plant an organic demonstration garden Saturday, July 10, 2010, beginning 10 a.m., at the County Administration Building on the corner of University Ave. and Main St. in Downtown Gainesville. The public [...]
The United States Green Building Chapter invites you to join us for a full-day workshop on Pathways to Certification.
“Students at Loga Springs International Academy on Northeast 16th Avenue showed off the fruits of their labors this week during a Sustainability Fair, highlighted by a wind turbine they built, along with solar-powered cookers for hot dogs and cornbread.”
“…we’re raising an entire generation who haven’t learned (in public school at least) how things work…and how to work with things. (We’ve also not been very good about teaching how to work with others, or even not to see others as things…but that’s a rant for another day.)”
Join USGBC for an enjoyable evening of great conversation, music, and delicious dining, and help celebrate the green building community in our region.
At this event, we’ll introduce our new Board members, recognize those who have contributed to green building in our region, review our activities thus far in 2010, and discuss what lies ahead.
6:30 – [...]
“Without a coastline in sight, the Santa Fe College Teaching Zoo is celebrating World Oceans Day on Saturday and Sunday by showing how landlocked citizens impact the ocean.” – The Gainesville Sun
“The Transition Movement started in England when a group of concerned friends got together and asked themselves the following questions: How can we respond in intelligent, adaptive, resilient ways to the challenges we are likely to face in the near future? We see these problems as the end of cheap oil, more severe weather events, water shortages, unstable world economies and more human conflict and violence.”
Loga Springs Academy will be hosting a fair highlighting environmental sustainability and clean energy projects this Thursday.
US Courts will soon pass judgment over a legal battle between a filmmaker and a corporation over an investigative documentary. Our First Amendment freedoms hang in the balance.
We were thrilled with the response and excitement generated by the 2010 festival and we are beginning to plan on next year’s festival. Our 2011 festival will continue to bring informative and inspiring environmental films to Gainesville and we look forward to expanding our reach to the community at large, helping [...]
Opening Plenary and Reception, featuring Elizabeth Grossman. Ms. Grossman is the author of Chasing Molecules: Poisonous Products, Human Health, and the Promise of Green Chemistry (Island Press, September 2009), High Tech Trash: Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human Health, Watershed: The Undamming of America, and Adventuring Along the Lewis and Clark [...]
Analysis of Gulf Oil Spill coverage…. readers must learn to discern the news:
The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig that exploded on April 20, causing the massive oil spill currently unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico, sank two days later, on the fortieth anniversary of Earth Day.
Given that a 1969 spill from an oil platform off the [...]
The topic of our Environmental Journalism panel at the ASJA Writers Conference April 25 was the importance of vetting your science and being informed about environmental issues. Panelists Dale Willman, Executive Editor of Field Notes Productions; David Biello, Associate Editor at Scientific American; John Mecklin, Editor in Chief at Miller-McCune; and Roger Witherspoon, freelance journalist [...]
WRITING GREEN? GET IT RIGHT!
Environmental Journalism Panel at American Society of Journalists and Authors Conference, New York City
Familiarize yourself with environmental issues before writing about them. The future of the planet rests in our pens because we have responsibility for helping the public become aware of what the issues are and what we need to do about them.
Trish Riley moderates panelists from Scientific American, Fieldnotes Productions, Miller-McCune and The Metcalf Institute. Join Us!
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One of a kind vintage finds for girls with sunny auras and kitten souls.
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A citizen's introduction to the local Superfund Site.
Go to Gainesville Farm Fresh for information on local sustainable food.
Learn about Gainesville's city parks and natural areas here
A listing of vegetarian restaurants in the Gainesville area
The BUY LOCALLY, GAINESVILLE! group is intended to draw attention to all local businesses.
Find out what's recyclable and where you can take your recycling materials
Find out where to take your hazardous waste
