Hello Green Drinkers of Gainesville!
We had a good meeting at Warehouse on August 4 – great food and drinks and wonderful space – THANK YOU Richard and Ryan! The only drawback was that it was a bit difficult to hear those who needed to share information with us, and I apologize for that to Robert [...]
EPA – Cleanup Not Coverup Koppers Superfund Site!
Thursday, August 26th, 7PM – 8:15PM, Have-Some-Fun-and-Get-It-Done Speed-Commenting Party!
More productive than speed dating! More fun than a meeting! More important than anything! Dramatic surprises and refreshments!
Parkview Baptist Church, 3403 NW 13th St, Gainesville 32609
Monday, August 30th, 5PM on, Joint City/County Commission Meeting on Koppers
City [...]
Looking for something to do tonight? Check out the trailer below:
Gasland: “Halliburton has developed a way to get more natural gas out of the ground—a hydraulic drilling process called hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking” for short. Energy companies across rural America are attempting to lease property from residents in order to drill for natural gas.
Filmmaker Josh [...]
Nia Master Class at GHFC in Thornbrook on Thursday evening, September 2, from 7:30 - 8:30! Finally, Nia is coming to Gainesville!! The cost is free to members, and $10.00 to non-members. Then, I will be teaching an 8 week Nia session there from September 23 – November 11……each Thursday evening from 7:30 [...]
Biomass incinerators are rarely, if ever, factually represented by the many sales pitches we see issued by the energy industry sector that promotes them. In fact, the marketing language that has now become de rigueur is reminiscent of George Orwell’s 1984. “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”
To the point, biomass incineration is [...]
Ron Cunningham celebrates the Blue Path:
“And here’s the bottom line message of Blue Path:
“Florida’s springs are degrading at an alarming rate as a direct result of our collective over-pumping of the ground water and adding too many nutrients to the groundwater,” says Annie Pais, director of Florida’s Eden, the organization that assembled the exhibit. “Simply [...]
“These folks want to have a much more extensive cleanup than EPA has first put on the table, and I’m going to certainly try to help them with that,” the Democrat told the crowd.
The EPA’s plan calls for…polluted soil from around the rest of the site and the surrounding neighborhoods would be placed [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The Alachua County Environmental Protection Department, Gainesville Regional Utilities, Alachua County Health Department, Gainesville City Manager’s Office, and technical consultants will hold the first of two public meetings to discuss proposed comments to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed cleanup plan for the Cabot-Koppers superfund site on Tuesday, Aug. 17 at 6 [...]
Taught by Stefanie Samara Hamblen, owner of Hogtown HomeGrown, participants will take a tour of the market, learn to cook at least two meals from seasonal produce and taste everything! In addition to all the hot weather veggies, there will be at least one kind of pesto!
Saturday, [...]
Gainesville residents can present their art to an audience while drinking coffee and meeting new people during PechaKucha night. A worldwide event that brings artists and local people together, PechaKucha night in Gainesville will take place in Volta’s Coffee, Tea & Chocolate on Aug. 13 from 8 to 10 p.m.
What: PechaKucha night brings [...]
NATIONAL “PUBLIC LANDS” DAY, September 25, 2010
September 25, 9am-noon – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park, Alachua Co, FL – Farm Day
Help clean up along the trails, paths and around the historic buildings at the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings historic farm, a National Historic Landmark. The work includes weeding and hoeing paths to the farmyard and [...]
August 12 through December 12, 2010
The Blue Path provides visitors a view of Florida’s water through the window of North Florida’s freshwater springs. This region is home to more springs–over 700 discovered so far–than any other place on Earth. The Exhibit examines how rapid degradation of Florida springs signals much bigger [...]
FYI: “Bates and Joyner were two of many plaintiffs in the 2003 Sabrina Abernathy v. Monsanto Company case, in which a $300 million settlement — 40 percent of which went to attorneys’ fees — was awarded in compensation for west Anniston residents’ exposure to PCB contamination. Monsanto made PCBs from 1929 [...]
EPA’s Public Hearing on proposed Koppers Superfund Cleanup Plan
THURSDAY, AUGUST 5TH, RALLY AT 5:00, HEARING AT 6:00
Stephen Foster Elementary School, 3800 NW 6th Street, (corner of NW 39th Ave.)
Your presence is needed on the proposed cleanup plan for the Koppers Superfund site at 200 NW 23rd Ave, across from Ward’s Supermarket. Human and environmental [...]
Hello, Green Drinks Gainevillians!
We had a great July meeting at Town of Tioga! Thank you, Luis Diaz, Dorothy, Amber and all who made it possible as well as Melanie of Moksa Organics and others who told us about their interesting sustainable businesses and projects.
Our next meeting will be held August 4, 6 – [...]
In Memory of
WESLEY C. SKILES
Memorial Celebration and Service Wednesday, July 28, 2010 at Ginnie Springs
The memorial service will begin at 6:00 pm followed by a celebration of Wes’s life. Ginnie Springs will be open to our guests all afternoon. The celebration will last into the evening. You may want to bring the beverage of [...]
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 [...]
What another great Green Drinks we enjoyed! Many thanks to Luis Diaz, who hosted us at the Town of Tioga, providing drinks for all. And thanks to Tioga property manager Dorothy Cayce, who organized the event and shuttled delicious pizzas and salads from Blue Highway in the Tioga Town Center.
It was great to see [...]
In Massachusetts and elsewhere, environmentalists are questioning the clean and renewable energy claims made by developers of biomass power.
“Whether you call it biomass or simply chopping down trees, it’s still deforestation,” said Franz A. Matzner, climate legislative director for the Natural Resources Defense Council in Washington, which supports the sensible use of biomass power. “Burning [...]
Alachua County, in partnership with Florida Organic Growers, Abundant Edible Landscapes, UF Young Entrepreneurs in Leadership and Sustainability, and the Downtown Rotary Club, will plant an organic demonstration garden Saturday, July 10, 2010, beginning 10 a.m., at the County Administration Building on the corner of University Ave. and Main St. in Downtown Gainesville. The public [...]
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