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 [...]
By Dylan Klempner
During the September 1, 2010 Green Drinks meeting in Gainesville, Mike Amish of Indigo Green Building Solutions, the U.S. Green Building Council and Jacob Cravey of Earthbuilders described their project—Barrels of Hope —and offered community members an opportunity to help them build shelters for earthquake victims in Haiti using inexpensive earthbag construction.
Those [...]
Simply appalling. The money to help move us toward a sustainable world is sitting in the state bank account, but citizens can’t access it. Use your vote to create the government that reflects your values.
“Thousands of Florida homeowners who have installed – or who are planning to install – solar power and/or new, energy-efficient heating [...]
Getting rid of odors the non-toxic way
Trish Riley is the author of the award-winning Complete Idiot's Guide to Green Living (Penguin/Alpha Books 2007) and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Greening Your Business (with Heather Gadonniex, Penguin/Alpha Books 2009). Trish was gracious enough to talk about how we can take care of getting rid of odors [...]
Denise Robinette, owner of Healthy Living Interiors, designed this room and is helping me with the green renovation of my little cottage! Kudos, Denise!
“Merkiyah Jones can now breathe easier thanks to a Healthy-N-Green Bedroom Makeover.Jones, a fourth-grader at Watkins Elementary School in West Park, was treated to the makeover after she won the Asthma Awareness [...]
A new study that measures levels of endocrine-disrupting chemicals in homes in two cities found similar levels of the chemicals in both settings. These results indicate that exposure to the compounds is widespread.
The health impacts of endocrine disruptors, which mimic naturally occurring human hormones, are still being studied. But concern is mounting that these chemicals [...]
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What Is Your Water Footprint?
Take a water tour with [The Green Guide] through your home, garden, diet, energy use, and your stuff! Then, pledge to cut your water footprint by 20%.
via Water Footprint Calculator – National Geographic.
These stunning detailed pictures magnified by over a million times reveal the true face of the hidden horrors in your home.
Seen through an ultra-powerful Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), these tiny creatures are some of several types of insect living undetected right under our noses.
One of the images taken using the [...]
Riley recently co-directed the First Annual Gainesville Environmental Film and Arts Festival, which was in collaboration with GoGreenNation.org. She admits she was so overwhelmed with festival-related tasks that promoting her site fell by the wayside. But the festival embodied the greater mission of GoGreenNation.org: to build a community of concerned citizens with a heart and [...]
I slashed the plastic wrap around the mattress. I was soon overcome by a sweet and pungent chemical smell.
…Because flame retardants don’t break down easily, they remain for years in the tissues of birds, aquatic organisms and mammals, including us, albeit in small quantities. An endocrine disruptor and neurotoxin, the retardants are [...]
So Teddi’s cough was really getting bad and I had always known that our home had a potential danger from the laminate floors. Ever since I’d moved in, I was often bothered by a sickeningly sweet smell in the mornings – after the house had been closed up all night – and I suspected that [...]
Paul Holland and Linda Yates thought it only natural, when they set out to build a luxury home six years ago, that theirs would be the world’s greenest. In Silicon Valley—where Holland works as a venture capitalist and Yates as a management consultant—even competition is environmentally conscious.
The couple’s 5,600-square-foot home will be outfitted with a [...]
Join USGBC for an enjoyable evening of great conversation, music, and delicious dining, and help celebrate the green building community in our region.
At this event, we’ll introduce our new Board members, recognize those who have contributed to green building in our region, review our activities thus far in 2010, and discuss what lies ahead.
6:30 – [...]
If you’re not one of GRU’s select customers (and even if you are), you can sign up to track your energy/water/waste monthly to compare against yourself and your neighbors at the GoGreenNation Conservation Challenge!
“40,000 randomly selected Gainesville Regional Utilities (GRU) residential customers will be mailed comparative home energy reports as part of a three-year pilot [...]
My knees hurt.
I’m creating an environmentally healthy and efficient home out of my cute little 34-year-old cottage.
I realized I needed to do this because my sweet little dog, Teddi, has exhibited some health concerns over the three years that we’ve lived here. I love my little house, but i don’t want to sacrifice her health [...]
Help Us Celebrate our 3rd Anniversary Party!!!
Last year we said that it goes without saying that a business cannot survive without patrons, but an entire movement cannot survive without passion. We have found that the citizens of Gainesville and surrounding areas are not only full of passion but also an unending [...]
Gainesville Regional Utilities will host the second annual GRU Community Energy Fair on May 15 to help customers take control of their energy use and save money. The fair will take place from 11 AM to 1 PM in the Martin Luther King Jr. Multipurpose Center.
GRU Partnering Contractors at the fair will demonstrate the latest [...]
Yup. Now’s our chance to say, “NO!” to oil and “Yes!” to independent wind and solar. Check out your rebates and make the break!
“And maybe, just maybe, the disaster will help reverse environmentalism’s long political slide — a slide largely caused by our very success in alleviating highly visible pollution. If so, there may be [...]
“Walk into any Home Depot or Lowe’s and you’ll see evidence that the $31 billion really is boosting the economy, and to greener ends. At the chain hardware stores, advertisements for energy-efficient windows and doors and other weatherization measures are tapping into the revised tax credit for energy-efficient existing homes: Under the Recovery Act, the [...]
U.S. builders say they have received offers of for a Chinese drywall settlement from Knauf Plasterboard Tianjin Co. Ltd. KPT, a German company with Chinese drywall subsidiaries. While some builders say that the offers are far too low, it has started negotiations that could potentially result in a resolution of the claims. KPT officials say [...]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency made available Monday two tools that let computer users “see” air quality information on a virtual globe.
via EPA unveils air quality check tools.
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