An idea whose time has come from The Ecologist:
The Ecologist office is set in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty within a United Nations Biosphere Reserve. Hartland peninsular is dotted with steep, wooded valleys where bluebells, early purple orchids and woodpeckers abound.The hills afford breathtaking views across the Bristol channel to Lundy Island, itself a nature [...]
Companies are starting to consider the value of natural resources in making business decisions, a practice that will become increasingly important as those resources become further constrained, corporate representatives say.
The practice, called natural capital accounting, is a way for companies to accurately assess and manage risk, maintain their social license to operate, manage or lower [...]
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 University of Alberta has a great program to bring heritage breed chicken eggs to consumers, while focusing attention on five standard breeds and bringing them back to popularity. This participant blogs about her experiences:
My husband and I first read about the University of Alberta (U of A) Heritage Chicken Program in The Tomato’s All [...]
The lineup of the fourth annual Cinema Verde Environmental Film & Arts Festival, which starts Saturday and runs through Thursday, offers a wide range of feature-length films, documentaries and shorts over the course of its six days.Screenings and events are planned at Jolie, 6 W. University Ave., with a variety of ticket options available including [...]
David Roberts writes for Grist:
Every year, I am drawn inexorably to the ads that play during the Super Bowl. Every year, when I am exposed to the stew of crude misogyny, cornpone nostalgia, martial sentiment, and the overweening assumption that all of life’s meaningful moments are tied to commercial products, I despair for humanity. But [...]
The fourth annual Cinema Verde Environmental Films & Art Festival kicks off Feb. 9 and continues through Feb. 14. The festival features more than 30 films that hope to inspire individuals to adopt more sustainable lifestyles, said Riley, the event director.
via Cinema Verde Environmental Film & Arts Festival | Gainesville.com.
By Juliet Eilperin in the Washington Post:
Roy Derrick maneuvered his forklift with a pallet of neatly boxed expired produce and flowers and dropped it into an industrial compactor at Safeway’s cavernous return center in Upper Marlboro. As the compactor hummed, compressed food and floral scraps spilled through a chute into a 40-foot trailer, one of [...]
A recyclable-centric business park planned for east Gainesville is still in early development, but it could generate jobs boasting solid pay and benefits for local residents without advanced degrees.
The Alachua County Resource Recovery Park would offer a home to businesses that create products from recycled materials. These companies could purchase material processed at the county’s [...]
Since 2009, Cinema Verde Director Trish Riley has worked to showcase the outside world to Gainesville while showcasing Gainesville to the outside world. Riley’s brainchild—a six-day environmental and social film festival—is set to run Feb. 9 to 14 at Jolie in downtown Gainesville.
Riley shared her thoughts on the festival, which she hopes will encourage people to embrace [...]
Additional comments on this news on my blog.
CHICAGO—New Research reveals its turkey, not chicken, that’s taking the lead in poultry sales. Research from Mintel on the U.S. poultry market reveals that turkey, duck and other specialty birds grew 6.5 percent in one year, reaching $7.1 billion from year 2011 to 2012.
Growing from $6 billion in [...]
Join us on Wednesday December 5, to help celebrate our 4th anniversary
at Bombay Restaurant and Lounge,
12 W. University Avenue; December 5, 6 – 8 p.m.Our Anniversary Party will be a fundraiser to support Cinema Verde.
A Huge Thank You To:
David Pais of Pais Landscaping and Pais Realty for beer and wine (Happy Birthday, David!)
Carrie Reed of [...]
Marcin Jakubowski
In 2008, I dropped my theoretical physicist’s chalkboard and began developing the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) — an open source, collaborative project. The GVCS is a modular, DIY, low-cost, high-performance platform that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 different industrial machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable civilization with [...]
Greetings, Green Gainesville!
We’re pleased to announce that our next
Green Drinks meeting will be held at
Cindy Pagel’s Artwoman Studio
Wednesday, November 7, 6 – 8 p.m.Join us Nov. 7 to learn about Greening your Art, buy gifts, enjoy delicious dinner and to celebrate the results of the national elections!
Where: Cindy’s Artwoman Studio
Located at her home in [...]
Mother Jones takes a look at California’s Prop 37:
You’d be forgiven for not noticing—unless you live in California, where you’ve likely been bombarded by geotargeted web ads and TV spots—but this election could spur a revolution in the way our food is made. Proposition 37, a popular Golden State ballot initiative, would require the labeling [...]
Care2 Make a difference reports:
Remember the Farm Aid concerts from the 1980s? Did you know this year’s concert took place last weekend in Hershey, Pennsylvania, where Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young and Dave Matthews gathered to perform? Farm Aid is the longest running benefit concert series in America, but they’re not getting the press [...]
Green Drinks and Alachua AudubonWelcome Belize Avian Specialist
Oct. 3 at Bombay Restaurant & Lounge
“Local Effforts Toward Tropical Rainforest Conservation”
The recent re-discovery of wild Harpy Eagles in southern Belize by BFREE, (a Gainesville-based non-profit) has been the catalyst for the development of a dynamic bird conservation program run by BFREE and supported by multiple universities and [...]
Submit your Environmental Films to Cinema Verde 2013!
Deadline for submissions is November 8th, 2012
The deadline to submit films for the Cinema Verde Environmental Film & Arts Festival is November 18th, 2012. There will be an extension for Withoutabox members until November 18th, 2012. Issues addressed in films may include food, water, waste, energy, chemical contamination, [...]
Juan Sostheim has built this community as a place for people to connect—with like-minded others, with the land and with our own inner voices. You can’t come here and experience this farm’s rhythms without beginning to question things. Here, possibility blossoms into reality with a force matched only by Mother Earth herself.
via True Terroir at [...]
During the early morning hours of April 15, with a steady breeze blowing down Colorado’s Front Range, the state’s biggest utility set a U.S. record — nearly 57% of the electricity being generated was coming from wind power… Utilities have long been wary of placing too much finicky renewable power on the grid.
via Wind power [...]
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