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 [...]
Joe Fassler writes in The Atlantic about Edible Education 101. Joe Fassler, a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, teaches creative writing at the University of Iowa. In 2011, his work for TheAtlantic.com was nominated for a James Beard Foundation Award in Journalism. He hosts The Lit Show on KRUI radio and litshow.com.
This fall [...]
Green Drinks hosts Gainesville City Commission Candidate Forum January 4th
Green Drinks invites the community to attend a candidate forum for the upcoming Gainesville City Commission election. The forum will take place at Blue Water Bay (http://www.thebluewaterbay.com/), at its new Gainesville location (12 SE 2nd Ave.) on Wednesday, January 4, 2012 from 6-8pm.
Numerous [...]
Nov. 2011 City Farmer: How to make your own sourdough starter! PLUS: All about the American Chestnut. A bimonthly Fine Print column by Krissy Abdullah. Includes beautiful illustrations.
I’m in Miami at the Society of Environmental Journalists conference, and I thought I’d post a few of the places I’m looking forward to revisiting for my SEJ friends and colleagues. The following are excerpts from The Explorer’s Guide to South Florida, which I co-authored with Sandra Friend. Fair warning: if something sounds interesting, please [...]
Consumers can expect to see a jump in prices for pasta, meat, vegetable oil and many other grocery items in the coming months as a pair of new government reports forecast on Thursday that a brutal mixture of heat, drought or flooding has taken a toll on the corn, soybeans and wheat grown on American [...]
Seafood fraud is the practice of misleading consumers about their seafood in order to increase profits. Along with ripping off shoppers, these actions can have negative impacts on marine conservation efforts and human health.
Types of seafood fraud include substituting one species for another without changing the label, including less seafood [...]
Studies have shown that eating locally grown food improves health, supports local economies, promotes the biodiversity of crops and reduces the environmental impact of shipping food around the world. Here are 5 convenient ways to eat local in Gainesville (and elsewhere).
Angelines Moncha Alba Lamb <angelines@slowfoodusa.org>, program manager for campaigns and projects, announced that Slow Food USA has launched Farmarazzi, a photo campaign and petition to rally public opposition to pending legislation introduced in Iowa, Minnesota, and Florida that would criminalize the act of taking photos of farms.
To highlight the hypocrisy of the introduced legislation [...]
Meatless Mondays are becoming usual fare around the country:
Sodexo, the world leader in quality of daily life solutions, has launched the Meatless Monday initiative nationwide, by promoting and adding the option of a plant-based entrée to its menus each week. Sodexo expanded the initiative to its more than 900 hospital client accounts across the country [...]
The Friends of the Elephant Seal, http://www.elephantseal.org/, a nonprofit organization that provides education and advocacy for Northern Elephant Seals at Piedras Blancas, California is entirely funded by donations and grants. It holds one major fundraising event annually. In 2011, it will be
A GRAND OLE’ SOUP-ABRATION: A Jubilee of Central Coast Restaurants Competing for the Best [...]
By Dylan Klempner
At Volta Coffee & Chocolate in downtown Gainesville, Florida, sustainability has been a primary goal since the company’s inception, said owner Anthony Rue. While hosting a recent Green Drinks meeting at his coffee shop, Rue outlined the steps he has taken over the years “to be as sustainable as possible.”
There are many different ways to interpret sustainability, [...]
Biodynamic Grapegrowing and Winemaking Short Course December 2
Sponsored by Demeter USA and the University of California Cooperative Extension, the full day session offers a comprehensive look at Biodynamic® farming and winemaking from local practitioners and winemakers along with an open forum for questions. The event will be held at the historic Rutherford Grange from 8:30 [...]
A third of the 2,000 chefs surveyed by the National Restaurant Association named gardens the top trend. Chris Moyer, who leads sustainability programs for the group, said it costs restaurants less to grow their own produce than to buy it elsewhere and have it shipped. It also gives them more control over quality, he [...]
Bring your favorite local dish to share and join us for a local foods potluck at the Hippodrome Theatre tonight (March 24) at 5:30 p.m. The film “A Chemical Reaction,” will follow, with a Skype conversation with producer Paul Tukey. “What’s Organic about Organic,” will screen, followed by a discussion with producer Marty Mesh and [...]
Locally-owned restaurants, cafes and groceries.
via No Soup For You – Gainesville.
Join friends for a delicious dinner!
Just $1 and a VEGAN dish to share gets you a seat at the feast which takes place the first Saturday of every month.
Vegan Potluck, Saturday Sept. 5, 6:30 p.m., Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 4225 NW 34 St., Gainesville.
Veg4Life Gainesville.
GoGreenNation: Not into eating synthetic petrochemicals because you know they can be dangerous to your health as well as the environment? Appalled at stories leaking out about the treatment of animals on factory farms? Good thinking. Here’s some great information on why these are good decisions and why small, local farms are the best source [...]
Veg4Life will be hosting its monthly Vegan* Potluck at 6:30 p.m. Saturday June 6 at the Unitarian Universalist fellowship, 4225 NW 34th st. $1 and a vegan dish gets you into the scrumptious buffet!
*Vegan means no animal products – no meat, fat, eggs, cheese, milk or other dairy products, no jello, marshmallows or honey.
Veg4Life Gainesville.
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Gainesville's environmental film and arts festival.
GoGreenNation.org is a proud member of Green America.
One of a kind vintage finds for girls with sunny auras and kitten souls.
Join us for our monthly meetings the first Wednesday of each month.
A citizen's introduction to the local Superfund Site.
Go to Gainesville Farm Fresh for information on local sustainable food.
Learn about Gainesville's city parks and natural areas here
A listing of vegetarian restaurants in the Gainesville area
The BUY LOCALLY, GAINESVILLE! group is intended to draw attention to all local businesses.
Find out what's recyclable and where you can take your recycling materials
Find out where to take your hazardous waste
