The Florida Coalition for Peace and Justice is developing a Sustainable Living Center in Hampton, about 20 miles north of Gainesville toward Starke. They have built a Peace Education Center and two eco-homes.
Their board recently approved a project that would harvest the pine trees on the property in order to establish a longleaf pine ecosystem demonstration project. When the harvest occurs [...]
Come join us to learn more about cohousing and take a tour of the site of our future cohousing community!
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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 [...]
To lead a healthy life, we all need a healthy planet. As I do my spring cleaning this year, I’m trying to keep that simple principle in mind.
It turns out that many cleaning products are far from earth-friendly. But my writing pal Trish Riley, an environmental journalist and coauthor of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Greening [...]
A more efficient and unobtrusive solar cell could be made with fewer materials and less energy, according to University of Michigan research. Silver nanoparticles added to a restructured and thinner silicon layer inside the solar cell captured more light and improved electricity flow. The cell efficiency improved by 8 percent. Solar panels put on roofs [...]
By Robert Rogers
Contra Costa Times
Posted: 04/04/2013 12:33:40 AM PDT
Updated: 04/04/2013 03:38:41 PM PDT
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Document: PG&E Letter to the Public Utilities Commission
RICHMOND — With clean energy upstarts cutting into its vast market share, electrical utility Pacific Gas & Electric filed a letter this week with the state Public Utilities Commission retaining the right [...]
The Lancaster, California City Council unanimously approved changes to the city’s zoning code that require housing developers to install solar with every new home they build.
This is the latest piece in what Republican Mayor R. Rex Parris described at the City Council meeting as a plan to make Lancaster “the solar capital of the universe.”
Lancaster’s [...]
Trish Riley has written a great deal of information to educate people about living green. Some of her most notable are the books The Complete Idiots Guide to Green Living and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Greening Your Business. These books provide an abundance of green living tips to help anyone have a greener, healthier life.
Trish began her writing [...]
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.
‘Of course, the powerful utility companies are threatened by the idea of a mainstream solar power market in which you and I are able to generate our own energy. They, along with the fossil fuel industry, are fighting us every step of the way.
“Since the Million Solar Roofs initiative began, the total installed cost of [...]
A year ago, Dave and Sandy Spencer were paying $500 a month in utility bills for a 2,700-square-foot, four-bed, three-bath home in Haile Plantation.
After semi-retiring and downsizing to an 1,800-square-foot, three-bed, two-bath home in Newberry’s Belmont subdivision, they are getting paid by Clay Electric for creating more energy than they use through the solar panels [...]
Old Gainesville Depot Tour!
April 26th, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Please come visit the rehabilitation of the old Gainesville Depot, a City of Gainesville/Gainesville CRA (Community Redevelopment Agency) project. Project members will be available to talk about LEED elements including the recycling and sustainability features. Speakers will include the CRA project manager (Diane Gilreath); the [...]
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 [...]
Let’s get the New Year off to a fresh start by tackling this sickening situation. In public spaces across the country, including offices, stores, restaurants, airports, and schools, air "freshener" is being forced upon us. Daily we are subjected to known carcinogens, endocrine disruptors, and other toxic substances. Sounds like a horror film, but it [...]
A new 1,600-square-foot split-level on Voluntown Road, it is the Builders Association of Eastern Connecticut’s answer to a market in which new construction faces stiff competition from the surplus of houses for resale. The prototype is meant to showcase assets rarely found in older homes: ultra-greenness and affordability.
The problem, said Paul Stone of Lombardi Realty [...]
Tour of a productive no-till (weedless) garden ; short documentary about positive adjustments in a post peak oil wolrd; discussion group(s). Light lunch provided.
Saturday, October 15 · 12:00pm – 2:00pm
Gaia Grove
21255 NW CR 237
Brooker, FL
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NPR reports that according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, this summer has been the second-hottest ever recorded in the United States, helping to push power demand in homes to record levels. As some worry that the growing use of fossil fuels to produce electricity for cooling is unsustainable, one [...]
Green Drinks Gainesville is pleased to coordinate with Linda and Ken McGurn of the Sun Center and Innovation Gainesville to host the September meeting of Green Drinks. Join us September 7, [...]
I can’t believe the feds are giving these unsafe things to the Indians. the trail of tears just goes on and on. when will our country honor those whose lands we stole? –tr*
Wanda Tiger and her husband needed a new home after a long-term house-sitting arrangement came to an end. But for members of their [...]
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