Scientists are observing with increasing alarm that some very common hormone-mimicking chemicals can have grotesque effects.
A widely used herbicide acts as a female hormone and feminizes male animals in the wild. Thus male frogs can have female organs, and some male fish actually produce eggs. In a Florida lake contaminated by these chemicals, male alligators have [...]
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 [...]
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!
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 [...]
Two brothers in Nebraska boosted corn yields by 10 percent in non-irrigated conditions with moisture-conserving cover crops, and have launched a cover-crop seed business.
Within a year, knowledge gained from a three-day renewable energy training benefited more than 2,600 farmers across the South.
Former tobacco farmers in Kentucky are now cashing in on sweet potatoes—grossing up to [...]
The National Wildlife Federation has published a report on how we’re bearing in the face of climate change
Having the reality of the destructive forces presented by climate change fully register with people, so they will to act with the needed urgency, is indeed a challenge. And, while the physical and environmental effects of global warming [...]
It’s not just fishing in Morro Bay. The San Luis Obispo Tribune reports:
In 2003, the pastor of the Estero Bay United Methodist Church in Morro Bay, Steve Islander, and board member Lee Greenwalt proposed temporarily using some of the church’s vacant property as a community garden.
A meeting to discuss the potential garden attracted sufficient interest [...]
This is Part One of a Three-Part Series by Walter Brasch, Dissident Voice | News Analysis on Truthout:
A new Pennsylvania law endangers public health by forbidding health care professionals from sharing information they learn about certain chemicals and procedures used in high volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing. The procedure is commonly known as fracking.
Fracking is the [...]
Mother Jones checks into it:
There isn’t supposed to be much fracking in California. In the past, the state’s Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR) has said that it “does not believe that fracking is widely used” in the state. More recently, the division allowed that the practice is “used for a brief period [...]
The world is entering an era where injuries as common as a child’s scratched knee could kill, where patients entering hospital gamble with their lives and where routine operations such as a hip replacement become too dangerous to carry out, the head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned, in a story from the [...]
Tuesday, March 20, 6 PM (Potluck), 7-9 PM (Dialogue), Civic Media Center – 433 S. Main St.
“Working for Food Justice: A Community Dialogue on Integrating Social Justice and Sustainability from Farm to Table”
Please join us for a community potluck and dialogue. We will be joined by a number of well-respected activists working to increase food [...]
Gainesville’s Farmers Market produced a short on their experience with Cash Mobs. The one they held was spectacularly successful. They encouraged each person to spend $20 at the Farmers Market. That money stays in the community and fuels local jobs. It’s simple — that’s the beauty of it.
We each do a little. We all do [...]
Rolling Stone’s Jeff Goodell looks into the finances of Chesapeake Energy:
Aubrey McClendon, America’s second-largest producer of natural gas, has never been afraid of a fight. He has become a billionaire by directing his company, Chesapeake Energy, to blast apart gas-soaked rocks a mile underground and pump the fuel to the surface. “We’re the biggest frackers [...]
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 [...]
Food Democracy Now is campaigning for labeling on GMOs:
Today, an estimated 75 to 80% of processed food in the U.S. contains GMOs (genetically modified organism). For the past 15 years, Americans have been denied the basic right to know what’s in our food, despite the fact that more than 50 countries around the world already [...]
The Cinema Verde Film and Arts Festival once again presented some real film treasures on the big screen here in Gainesville. No doubt some people might think that movies about the environment must be painful to watch and depressing, and so a person might hesitate to see these movies. True, they ALL remind us or [...]
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.
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 [...]
Little did Willie Nelson know when he recorded “Crazy” years ago just how crazy it would become for our cherished family farmers in America. Nelson, President of Farm Aid, has recently called for the national Occupy movement to declare an “Occupy the Food System” action.
Nelson states, “Corporate control of our food system [...]
Organic farmers are trying their hardest to retain at least some portion of our food in its natural state, with DNA unmutilated. This isn’t the fight many are familiar with, or at least expecting.
In a way, this is the stereotypical “little guy vs. massive corporation” fight. But the “little guy” here includes more than just [...]
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