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 [...]
Mark Bittman writes in the New York Times:
If you’re interested in taking a step away from the big (and often overwhelming) picture and remembering all the little things people are doing to improve our food system, consider Exhibit A: Just Food, a nonprofit that does terrific food justice work in New York City, [...]
The cost of solar photovoltaic systems could become cheaper than even fossil fuels over within the next ten years, according to technology advancement association IEEE.But IEEE said that to achieve this cost parity, the solar industry must continue to improve the efficiency of photovoltaic cell technologies and create economies of scale“Solar PV will be a [...]
CHINATOWN — Thousands of bees swarmed a streetlight on a busy stretch of Mott Street Monday afternoon, forcing police to close down a section of the block while onlookers stopped to gawk at the spectacle.
The latest swarm — the third spotted in Manhattan in as many weeks — clung to a streetlight between Bayard [...]
Join Your USGBC Local Chapter for a Free Social and CEU Course at the Perry Construction Institute, 6/16, 5:30-7:30. Light supper provided.
The Course Title: LEED 254: The Costs and Benefits of Green Building: Putting the Research into Practice.
Anyone can attend… member or not. To attend the course is FREE. If you want the credits through [...]
A proposal to develop Grover Beach, California’s community garden into low-income housing was defeated last week.
The City Council voted 3-2 to sell the 6,620-square-foot parcel, but the proposal failed because the council needed a four-fifths vote for it to pass after some local residents lodged protests to the proposal. Councilwomen Karen Bright [...]
The government is moving to ban the sale of some popular rat and mouse poisons such as D-Con and Hot Shot in an effort to protect children and pets.
The Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday it is taking the step to reduce the thousands of accidental exposures of children that occur every year from rodent-control products.
“Today’s [...]
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).
Q&A: Environmental journalist Trish Riley
by Jeff Holman
26th April, 2011
According to Trish Riley, it’s absurd to think that individuals can save the planet – only big business has the clout to make a real difference. Utter nonsense or perfectly sensible? Jeff Holman caught up with her to find out
read more Q&A: Environmental activist and writer, Trish [...]
Do you know someone who still doesn’t get the whole sustainability thing? Help turn them onto the path to a brighter future by giving them a sampling of items to help reduce their energy and water usage, their chemical exposure, and their carbon footprint with the GoGreenGift – the Original EcoStarter Kit.
The kit includes a [...]
Don’t forget to join Cinema Verde and Green Drinks here to enjoy fabulous food and lots of Swamphead beer! Bring your hats, blankets and water bottles! –Trish*
Cinema Verde and Green Drinks will see you at Swallowtail Farm Spring Festival on Sunday, April 10 – Noon ’til late…see you there!
With remnants of once-legal lead paint, leaded gasoline and other pollutants from the nation’s industrial past tainting land in U.S. cities, soil researchers warn that the growing number of urban farmers and community gardeners need to test their dirt and take steps to make sure it’s safe.
They point to cities like Indianapolis, where nine out [...]
Cinema Verde Has Arrived!
Our ten-day Environmental Film and Arts Festival has loads of educational fun in store for everyone: 25 films at 10 venues, an all-day EcoFair, EcoArts, Community Conversations and much more! Come enjoy with us! Here are a few special events to look forward to (click here for more):
We will kick off our [...]
Rooftop solar energy thrives in the Southland. But efficiency measures play a large role in satisfying California consumers’ demand for power. Using renewable energy better is one way to sell more rooftop panels.
On Jan. 12, 2010, a devastating earthquake hit Haiti, highlighting the population’s vulnerability after years of political corruption and ineffective or nonexistent building codes and water treatment facilities. 1.5 million people were left homeless. Thousands are still living in “tent cities,” where 30 to 40 percent have no access to toilets or drinkable water. Barrels of Hope (BOH), a local non-profit, is directly addressing housing and sanitation issues by training workers in Haiti and organizing volunteers in Gainesville to construct earthbag houses for victims of the earthquake.
The Secretaries of Energy and Interior have decided to move the national Solar Decathlon—a solar energy home design competition–off the National Mall when they hold the next event in the fall, says Bill Line, a National Park Service Washington Region spokesman, reports Chemical & Engineering News.
Students aren’t taking that without comment, though. The following statement [...]
Biodiversity begins with a Bee (according to Scottish Natural Heritage)
The Ecologist
27th January,2011
Scottish Natural Heritage launch a new film in the name of safeguarding biodiversity, complete with with sword-fighting and motorcycling bees…
Scottish Natural Heritage have just released this one minute video in the name of safeguarding biodiversity, complete with with sword-fighting and motorcycling bees. Biodiversity begins [...]
with RePower America, http://tinyurl.com/45sna3v.
“Everywhere you look, communities, businesses, cities and states are taking positive steps to address the climate crisis. From schools and churches installing solar panels or working to become more energy efficient to city councils and state legislatures adopting climate-friendly policies, we’re seeing considerable progress in communities across the country.
“As 2011 begins, Repower [...]
Coconut Grove, FL (January 14, 2011) – A symposium on Ethnobotany: a 17th-Century Vision of our 21st-Century World, will be held Saturday, February 5 at the Kampong of the National Tropical Botanical Garden (NTBG) , 4013 S. Douglas Road, Coconut Grove, Florida.
The information contained in the encyclopedic Herbarium Amboinense, is considered a gold mine for [...]
A small but growing number of families and homeowners across the country who say they have learned the hard way that wind power — a clean alternative to electricity from fossil fuels — is not without emissions of its own.
Lawsuits and complaints about turbine noise, vibrations and subsequent lost property value have cropped up in [...]
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