Hoping to start composting but not sure where to begin?
Already composting but not getting the results you want?
Want answers to your composting questions?
Come to Cymple Gardens (formerly Gardener’s Edge) Sunday May 19 for an intimate, 1-hour workshop led by Compost Experience Officer Chris Cano of Gainesville Compost.
You’ll learn in one hour what has taken us [...]
The U.K.’s two largest water companies warned today that sewer flooding would worsen should people flush wet wipes in toilets and wash grease down sinks.
United Utilities Plc (UU/), the biggest publicly traded water utility in Britain, spends 20 million pounds ($31 million) a year on 53,000 blockages, it said in a website statement. Thames Water Utilities [...]
Living on Earth explores the cost of not regulating pollution”
Critics argue that EPA regulation is costly to business and the US economy. But a new report from OMB shows that the financial benefits of environmental regulation outweigh the costs ten-fold. Harvard Professor Joe Aldy talks with host Steve Curwood about benefits of EPA rules
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CURWOOD: From [...]
Greetings, Green Gainesville!
We’re pleased to announce that our next
Green Drinks meeting will be held at the new
The Brew Spot Café
1000 NE 16th Ave.
May 1, 6 – 8 p.m.
When was the last time you did a chemistry experiment? Jeff Keaffaber, co-owner of The Brew Spot Café, has a treat for you and anyone who wants [...]
The U.S. military spent $5 million on incinerators at a base in Afghanistan that never became operable, forcing troops to use a type of open-air burn pit that has been linked to serious respiratory problems among veterans, according to a government report.
The Pentagon banned burn pits at large war-zone bases after facing a flurry of [...]
Want to help keep your community clean? Come out the Hogtown Creek Cleanup this Saturday! Cleanups of the creek have been going on since March, but this one will take place at Forest Park, 4501 SW 20th Ave. Volunteers are asked to meet at 9 a.m.
CITY HALL — If it’s hard and plastic, recycle it.
That’s the message Mayor Michael Bloomberg sent Wednesday as he announced the city’s biggest expansion of its recycling program in 25 years.
“Rigid” plastics like yogurt cups, take-out food containers, toys and CD cases that were previously unable to be recycled can now be tossed into the same bin as [...]
For Earth Day, Jennifer Weeks reflects on some places that were saved for Slate:
Storm King Mountain on the banks of the Hudson River in New YorkCourtesy of Ahodges7/Wikimedia Commons
The first Earth Day, in 1970, was inspired by anger. The nation was a mess. Four million gallons of oil from a blown offshore well were smearing [...]
Take a dip in the Great Lakes these days, and you might get more than you bargained for. That’s because, in addition to the water, fish and plant life you might normally expect, the region’s waterways are increasingly clogged with plastic debris, according to researchers.
The phenomenon is nothing new. For years, scientists have looked on in alarm [...]
For 174 members of Gainesville organizations and families, Saturday was a chance to help the community get stuff done. At the Great American Cleanup, citizens claimed an area of land to clean by picking up trash, pulling weeds and carrying out other beautification projects.
Keep Alachua County Beautiful, a local nonprofit organization, annually hosts the event, [...]
Want to help keep your community clean? This Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., join the local non-profit Current Problems at the Lowe’s Home Improvement Store at 2564 NW 13th Street to clean up Hogtown Creek. If you’re interested in signing up or for more information, call 352 264-6827.
We are holding a Gainesville Compost Network Bike Tour on Saturday, April 13th. We will bike to GC’s different community locations around downtown and explain how the network functions! It will start at noon and last for a few hours, ending with a potluck at the co-op courtyard.
The facebook event explains more: https://www.facebook.com/events/578858392126373/
The Student Compost Cooperative will be hosting an open house this
friday April 12th from 4pm to 6pm at the UF Energy Research and
Education Park. The address is 2610 SW 23rd Terrace Gainesville, FL.
This time around we are showcasing home gardening of the potted,
vertical, and hydroponic varieties. We will be building a hydroponic
window farm, a potato [...]
The Obama administration is inching ahead with a plan that would allow wastewater from fracking to be shipped on barges, fueling a debate whether it is safer than other transportation modes or risks polluting drinking water.
The Coast Guard last month quietly sent to the White House’s Office of Management and Budget a proposal to allow [...]
More than 50 countries have banned asbestos, a toxic mineral used in building materials, insulation, automobile brakes and other products.
The United States isn’t one of them. Last year, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, 1,060 metric tons – more than 2.3 million pounds – came into the country, all of it from Brazil. “Based on current trends,” [...]
YAKIMA, Wash. — Underground tanks that hold a stew of toxic, radioactive waste at the nation’s most contaminated nuclear site pose a possible risk of explosion, a nuclear safety board said in advance of confirmation hearings for the next leader of the Energy Department.
State and federal officials have long known that hydrogen gas could build [...]
19-year-old Boyan Slat has unveiled plans to create an Ocean Cleanup Array that could remove 7,250,000 tons of plastic waste from the world’s oceans. The device consists of an anchored network of floating booms and processing platforms that could be dispatched to garbage patches around the world. Instead of moving through the ocean, the array would span the radius of [...]
The California Report updates Erin Brockovich’s Hinkley:
Nearly 20 years ago, Pacific Gas & Electric paid hundreds of millions of dollars to settle legal claims that it had poisoned the Mojave Desert community of Hinkley by dumping industrial waste into the ground. But that David and Goliath triumph — portrayed in the movie “Erin Brockovich” — [...]
Chris Cano and Steven Kanner cycle through Gainesville regularly, collecting garbage that they turn into gold.
Black gold, that is.
It’s a term some gardeners use when referring to compost, and it’s created by mixing the right amount of brown material, such as dried leaves, with green material, such as plant-based food scraps.
The result is nutrient-rich, dark, [...]
Temple Grandin has advocated for years that all animal business operations put 24-hour cameras on their sites, for all to see. That’s such a great idea, providing protection for the animals and transparency for the public. Too bad the industry is heading in the other direction.
Mother Jones reports on ag-gag bills:
What’s it like inside a [...]
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