By Nathan Crabbe
CITRA — Billionaire auto parts magnate Frank Stronach said high school bands usually welcome him at openings for his factories, so he “felt a bit bad” about being met by protesters at Tuesday’s dedication of a University of Florida conference center named after him.
Stronach donated $1.5 million to fund construction of the center at [...]
The Center for Biological Diversity is campaigning against lead ammunition:
Toxic lead was taken out of paint and gasoline years ago, but lead from hunting ammunition still kills millions of birds and other wildlife every year. Lead poisoning is taking a terrible toll on bald eagles, peregrine falcons, loons, condors, herons and even wolves, bears and [...]
From the Washington Post:
By Juliet Eilperin, Published: April 1
The smallest fish in the sea are more than twice as valuable when they’re eaten by bigger fish than when they’re caught by humans, according to a report released Sunday by a scientific task force.
The 120-page analysis by the Lenfest Forage Fish Task Force — a group of [...]
The first study conducted in a natural environment has shown that systemic pesticides damage bees’ ability to navigate
The Ecologist reports:
Common crop pesticides have been shown for the first time to seriously harm bees by damaging their renowned ability to navigate home.
The new research strongly links the pesticides to the serious decline in honey bee numbers [...]
Greetings, Green Gainesville!
So, we made it through another Cinema Verde! I hope you were all able to join us – we had a fabulous time in a beautiful venue – Villa East (thank you Leah Sherer and all at Celebrations Catering!) – with an amazing sound system (thank you Paul Brachhold [...]
It was only a matter of time…. Let’s hope this changes our relationship with animals…-tr*
Researchers at the Bonobo Hope Great Ape Trust Sanctuary in Des Moines, Iowa, are developing an app that acts as a human-ape translator, allowing both species to communicate with one another using a tablet.
All seven of the bonobos at the [...]
Nonprofit Friends of the Elephant Seal and California State Parks now have a live web cam that lets you watch Northern Elephant Seals on the beach at Piedras Blancas from the comfort of your office.
Watch every day for changes. Follow my blog for information about what is happening and why the seals are there. In [...]
Inadequate enforcement means current Colorado oil and gas development is irresponsible
Published: March 20, 2012
By: Lisa Sumi
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From the report:
The Colorado General Assembly created the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission to “foster the responsible development of Colorado’s oil and gas natural resources.”To do so, the COGCC developed and implemented regulations to govern the oil [...]
Rep. Cliff Steans R-FL, a birther, one of the leaders of the Solyndra witch hunt and defender of subsidies to Big Oil companies, told constituents at a town hall meeting Belleview, Florida, on February 25 that “we don’t need any more national parks in this country” and that we need to “actually sell off some [...]
Greetings, Green Gainesville!
Please accept my apology for sending this info on Green Drinks so late…. As you may know, we had a fabulous Cinema Verde and I am still, five days later, a walking zombie. This just slipped my radar. I hope that you plan to attend and that the following [...]
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 [...]
From Feb. 24 to March 2, activists, filmmakers, artists and students will showcase environmental issues and solutions from all over the world in the third annual Cinema Verde Environmental Film and Arts Festival.
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.
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 [...]
Forest communities are fighting increasing incursions onto their land by US oil companies. Now the Belizean government is seeking to reverse a court ruling preventing them allowing oil exploration, logging or mining. Robin Llewellyn reports from Belize
In a wooden hall built on stilts in the Belizean rainforest a man is speaking in Q’eqchi’, a language [...]
Late last week, internal documents went public showing Canada is fretting over its sullied reputation for unfettered fossil fuel development, while resorting to poisoning wolves rather than fixing the problem. NWF released a paper today showing tar sands, oil and gas development in Canada is contributing to the decline in caribou herds. Rather than [...]
What drew me to Gainesville? The lovely tree canopy and respect the city showed for its trees. Now they want to slash and burn these living lungs that clear our air and cool our breezes…. find out the value of trees in your neighborhood:
The Tree Benefit Calculator allows anyone to make a simple estimation of [...]
“We are but a speck…”
After two years of trying to track it down, amateur astronomer Alex Cherney has captured the unadulterated color and beauty of Aurora Australis, also know as the Southern Lights.
Red Aurora Australis from Alex Cherney on Vimeo.
On his Vimeo page, Cherney explains that the red color captured in this time lapse "is [...]
WASHINGTON: The first ever “wall-to-wall” map of carbon storage of tropical vegetation in Africa, Asia and South America has shown that it stores 21 percent more carbon than estimated.
Scientists from Woods Hole Research Centre ( WHRC), Boston University, and the University of Maryland produced the map using a combination of remote sensing and field data.
Reliable [...]
Sharon Guynup reports for Blue Ridge Press:
A natural gas drilling rush is on in rural North Dakota. And with it, residents are reporting growing numbers of respiratory ailments, skin lesions, blood oozing from eyes, and the deaths of livestock and pets.
Elsewhere, Wyoming and Pennsylvania residents who thought they’d hit the lottery by signing gas drilling [...]
The United States has a topsoil problem.
About 75 percent of it is gone, primarily because the large, single-crop farms that dominate American agriculture rely on chemicals and synthetic fertilizers to produce their harvests, depleting natural soil systems in the process.
John-Paul Maxfield thinks compost can help solve this problem. Environmentalists love compost for several reasons, including [...]
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