Citizen’s Co-op is seeking a student representative to serve on its board of directors. The Student Representative holds a non-voting seat of the board of directors. The position is responsible for being the liaison between the student, faculty, and staff at the University of Florida and the Board. This requires engaging the university population on [...]
Cinema Verde Environmental Film Festival and Green Drinks Gainesville will be jointly sponsoring monthly screenings of Cinema Verde films at the newly opened Oak’s Mall Plaza’s Gator 4 Cinema beginning June 5. This new venue will provide a big screen experience, more and better seating, and easy parking. Also, Celebrations Catering will offer drinks and dinner during the Green Drinks Gainesvile meetings [...]
Cinema Verde Merges with Green Drinks to Present Film at Gators 4 Cinema
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
May 23, 2013
CONTACT: Trish Riley, 352-327-3560, Trish@CinemaVerde.org
Cinema Verde Environmental Film Festival merges with Green Drinks to feature environmental films at Gators 4 Cinema in the Oaks Mall Plaza, slated to reopen its doors this month. The first Cinema [...]
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 [...]
Gainesville Raw Food Potluck is a group of people (everyone is invited) that meet monthly to share fellowship, food, recipes, and information about raw foods and related topics. RAW FOOD includes all un-cooked fruits, vegetables/leafy greens/herbs, un-roasted nuts, seeds, whole grains & seaweed. From these basics, we can make a variety of specialty foods, including [...]
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 [...]
More than 30 people came out to Green Drinks at Gainesville’s new Sweetberries to discuss sustainability initiatives in Gainesville and beyond. The co-owner of Sweetberries, Jane Osmond, spoke about preserving the history of their building, previously Books, Inc., by refurbishing the original furniture and promoting sustainable practices by using locally sourced tempeh and produce in [...]
Sarah Laskow
posted a map of Food Deserts on Grist:
USDA
The USDA’s new Food Access Research Atlas is a map of all the places in the country where people live in food deserts — places where it’s difficult to access fresh food. There they are, above. (Click through to go to the interactive map.)
The green spots are [...]
Andy Fisher reflects on the food movement for civileats.com:
The past year or so has brought some dramatic changes to key organizations in the community food arena. Organizations like the Community Food Security Coalition, Food Alliance, Organic Farming Research Foundation, and Slow Food have gone through either challenging leadership transitions, substantially downsized, and/or closed down. The [...]
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 [...]
Implementation of the sweeping law, signed two years ago, has been bogged down by the its complexity and cost.
(Photo: Richard Pipes, Albuquerque Journal, via AP)
From USA Today:
Story Highlights
Proponents of law say nation’s food supply at high risk
CDC: Foodborne illnesses strike one in six Americans each year
Tougher rules for imported foods also delayed
WASHINGTON — With thousands [...]
The Kansas City Star, in a yearlong investigation, found that the beef industry is increasingly relying on a mechanical process to tenderize meat, exposing Americans to higher risk of E. coli poisoning. The industry then resists labeling such products, leaving consumers in the dark.
The result: Beef in America is plentiful and affordable, spun out in [...]
Aug 21 (Reuters) – Americans throw away nearly half their food every year, waste worth roughly $165 billion annually, according to a study released on Tu esday.
“As a country, we’re essentially tossing every other piece of food that crosses our path. That’s money and precious resources down the drain,” said Dana Gunders, a scientist with [...]
Catch up with Central California Coast events in the newsletter.
June 23rd, 6pm
A Taste of the Future
Fundraiser Dinner
for the Cal Poly
Center for Sustainability
at the Hearst Ranch
100 Hearst Castle Rd
San Simeon
June 24th, 11am
Slow Sunday Morning
with Slow Food and Slow Money
A warm-up event for
Pallet to Palate at Vintage Organics
6015 LOVR
San Luis Obispo
Both events featuring guest speaker
Woody Tasch, Director of
Slow [...]
Please join Gainesville Compost and Grow Gainesville for a “Waste-to-Food Workshop” at Tempo Bistro to Go this Saturday at 1pm!
We will be demonstrating how we turn Tempo Bistro’s food waste into black gold for Gainesville gardens, including the vertical garden we are building for Tempo Bistro itself.
Come grab a soup, sandwich or beverage and get [...]
Portland: What a Trip!
–Trish Riley
My daughter Rachel moved to Portland shortly after graduating from college and she’d been raving about it ever since. “You’ve got to come here, Mom, you’ll love it. Everybody here is doing what you’ve been talking about and writing about all my life!” She sent me local magazines to whet my [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Greetings, Green Drinkers and Cinema Verde Fans!
We had a great January candidates forum at Blue Water Bay – thanks to Shawn Sheppard and Jason Fults, as well to all of you who joined us! And now it’s time for some more fun next week…
Green Drinks (www.gogreennation.org/category/green-drinks/) will be held 6 – [...]
Greetings, Green Drinkers and Cinema Verde Fans!
We had a great January candidates forum at Blue Water Bay – thanks to Shawn Sheppard and Jason Fults, as well to all of you who joined us! And now it’s time for some more fun next week…
Jan. 30 Sponsor Reception: Don Davis will host a reception to thank [...]
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