Cycle to the High Dive to celebreate National Bike Month with ACEL’s Bikes de Mayo social event!
ACEL Bikes de Mayo is a fundraiser for ACEL’s advocacy initiative to have air pumps installed at or around the new bike racks currently planned for downtown Gainesville!
Profits from the ACEL Bikes de Mayo event will fund the equipment [...]
Every Thursday Ryan of The 8th Ave Bike & Coffee House will be leading a Ride and Dine. This social ride is open to anyone with a bike and an interest in having some dinner. All ride levels welcome as this will be an easy paced ride to the restaurant of choice. The plan is [...]
There’s never been a better time to consider walking, public transportation — or the greenest, most efficient form of transport: cycling.
Once a novelty of the Industrial Revolution, bicycles now supply millions of people with efficient, healthy, pollution-free daily transportation. Bicycles can reduce traffic congestion and noise. You can park a dozen bikes in the space [...]
Noise from honking cars and police sirens can disrupt sleep, but it also may increase the chance of developing diabetes, according to a large study from Denmark.
The researchers compared noise levels from road traffic to the incidence of diabetes in 57,000 people. As the noise levels increased so did the risk for developing the disease. [...]
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PublicInputSurvey-Transportation
via Alachua County Communitywide Transportation Summit Survey.
The Alachua County Board of County Commissioners is hosting a community-wide Transportation Summit at the Gainesville/Alachua County Senior Recreation Center, 5701 N.W. 34th Street, Gainesville. The summit is an opportunity for the County to receive public input on the future of the County’s transportation system, what that system will look like, and the steps needed [...]
Public transit doesn’t have to be a total bummer if you’ve got a nice enough hub for it all to connect to. That seems to be the logic behind the upcoming 1.5-million-square-foot, San Francisco Transbay Transit Center. Some are calling it the city’ “Grand Central,” and if it lives up to the plans, it’ll certainly be grand.
Designed [...]
Greetings, Green Gainesville!
We’re proud to announce our next Green Drinks meeting will be held at the new Gainesville’s Sweetberries!
505 NW 13th St.
April 3rd, 6-8pm
We’ll learn how this new restaurant is sustainable and we’ll sample some delicious frozen custard. The Guiness Float has been recommended! Also, we’ll hear about an environmental volunteer opportunity coming up in [...]
Every Thursday, Ryan of the 8th Ave Bike & Coffee House will be leading a Ride and Dine. This social ride is open to anyone with a bike and an interest in having some dinner. All ride levels are welcome, as this will be an easy paced ride to the restaurant of choice. Lights and [...]
By WILLIAM J. BROAD reports in the NY Times
Published: December 10, 2012
When a hurricane forced the Nautilus to dive in Jules Verne’s “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,” Captain Nemo took the submarine down to a depth of 25 fathoms, or 150 feet. There, to the amazement of the novel’s protagonist, Prof. Pierre Aronnax, no [...]
carbon nation is an optimistic, solutions-based, non-preachy, non-partisan, big tent film that shows tackling climate change boosts the economy, increases national & energy security and promotes health & a clean environment. The film’s optimism and pragmatism are appealing across the political spectrum. While other good films have been about problems, blame and guilt, carbon nation [...]
Read these stories, and you will be well-acquainted with the environmental issues of the 21st century.
SEJ Awards for Reporting on the Environment
2012 Winners
The Society of Environmental Journalists is proud to present the winners of the 2011-2012 Awards for Reporting on the Environment. SEJ’s journalism contest is the world’s largest and most comprehensive awards for journalism [...]
LONDON, July 11 (Reuters) – Chevron Corp. left workers pleading to be evacuated from a gas exploration platform off Nigeria which kept drilling as smoke poured from a borehole until an explosion that killed two people as the rig became engulfed in flames, according to accounts from four of the platform’s workers.
Chevron, the second largest [...]
Here in the early stages of the Libor scandal — and, yes, this thing is far from over — there are two big surprises.Enlarge This Image Fred R. Conrad/The New York TimesJoe NoceraGo to Columnist Page »Joe Noceras Blog »Related NewsDealBook: Interest Rate-Fixing Scandal Puts Barclays at Risk With 2 Ratings Agencies July 5, 2012. [...]
Just a few things today.
1. In politics, as in comedy, timing is everything.
This week, the 1000 Friends of Florida announced it was giving Alachua County its coveted Better Community Award for the county’s commitment to “multi-modal transportation and sustainable patterns of development.”
Multi-modal being planner-speak for getting people here and there by bus, bike, car and [...]
JACK GILLUM and SETH BORENSTEIN checked the facts:
WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s the political cure-all for high gas prices: Drill here, drill now. But more U.S. drilling has not changed how deeply the gas pump drills into your wallet, math and history show.
A statistical analysis of 36 years of monthly, inflation-adjusted gasoline prices and U.S. domestic [...]
JASON DEAREN reports for the Associated Press
Auto dealers say California’s proposed rules to require carmakers to build more electric and other less-polluting hybrid cars and trucks by 2025 will cost consumers more money and will stifle the industry’s growth.
Consumer groups say customers might pay more for the vehicles but will save in lower fuel and [...]
The U.S. House of Representatives forwarded a bill on Friday that environmental leaders warn would undermine the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to curb air pollution and protect public health. Green groups are now urging the Senate and President Barack Obama to stand strong — and avoid a repeat of recent environmental health failures, such as [...]
The cost of America’s quiet billion dollar disaster in the Upper Midwest keeps rising as floodwaters decline.
Shortly before Memorial Day, a summer of unprecedented flooding from Montana to Missouri along the Missouri River started washing away interstate highway lanes and swamping rail lines as it routed thousands of people from their homes.
Flooding continues this Labor [...]
On Wednesday, October 6th the Port of San Francisco will take an impressive stride forward in green technology innovation and become the first port in California to provide shoreside electrical power for cruise ships at berth. There are 9,000 premature deaths in California every year from air pollution — shoreside [...]
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