Greetings, Green Drinkers and Cinema Verde Fans!
We had a great January candidates forum at Blue Water Bay – thanks to Shawn Sheppard and Jason Fults, as well to all of you who joined us! And now it’s time for some more fun next week…
Green Drinks (www.gogreennation.org/category/green-drinks/) will be held 6 – [...]
Here’s another interesting story I wrote this year..what a cool biz: Recycling humans and animals!-tr
RTI Biologics employs 700 people worldwide, 500 of these at the Alachua headquarters. The spotlessly clean facility operates 24/7, with receiving facilities always ready for gifts of human donated tissue, which are quarantined in freezers on first arrival, while testing and [...]
Amidst the obstacles presented by poverty and deforestation, dedicated travelers are sowing the seeds of ecotourism in Haiti’s rugged terrain.
Show Your Community Connections with the Chamber Video Challenge
The Gainesville Area Chamber of Commerce wants to know what Gainesville means to you or your business. At the 2011 Business of the Year Awards, Chamber President and CEO Brent Christensen announced a video challenge to learn how a connected community not only supports Gainesville, but promotes [...]
Green Drinks hosts Gainesville City Commission Candidate Forum January 4th
Green Drinks invites the community to attend a candidate forum for the upcoming Gainesville City Commission election. The forum will take place at Blue Water Bay (http://www.thebluewaterbay.com/), at its new Gainesville location (12 SE 2nd Ave.) on Wednesday, January 4, 2012 from 6-8pm.
Numerous [...]
March 2011 marked the beginning of a preemptive lawsuit, with 83 plaintiffs joining forces against corporate giant Monsanto. Florida Organic Growers, a nonprofit organic certification and sustainable farming outreach group based in Gainesville, joined the fight in July. The 83 plaintiffs, representing a coalition of more than 270,000 farmers, are filing this lawsuit against Monsanto out of fear.
Greetings Green Drinkers and Environmental Film Fans!
I hope you’ve enjoyed the autumn and had a lovely Thanksgiving holiday. Although I missed seeing my kids (Portland and Denver are too far away!), I relished the quiet chance to catch up on some work and enjoyed a delicious dinner with friends. I’ve made so many lovely friends [...]
Nov. 2011 City Farmer: How to make your own sourdough starter! PLUS: All about the American Chestnut. A bimonthly Fine Print column by Krissy Abdullah. Includes beautiful illustrations.
Greetings Green Drinkers and Environmental Film Fans!
I hope you’re enjoying the fall as we are. It’s a nice time to cuddle up with a good movie, eh? I’m enjoying rolling into fall. I just spent a week on the road – an odyssey that took me to Miami for the Society of Environmental Journalists [...]
7th Annual Bat Festival
What: Festival with educational presentations, bat-related arts and crafts, and vendors.
When: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Saturday
Where: Lubee Bat Conservancy, 1309 NW 192nd Ave.
Cost: Free
Info: www.batconservancy.org
“The free event, which will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the conservancy on Northwest 192nd Avenue off County Road 231, offers an opportunity [...]
“I drove 150 miles just to see it.”
Dorothy Carswell, a 60-year-old photographer from Jekyll Island, Ga., made a trip to UF to see Gainesville’s extension of the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef, a worldwide project that uses yarn to pay tribute to the Great Barrier Reef off the northeast coast of Australia.
The colorful exhibit on display [...]
Duane Schwingel, a neatly dressed father of two, identifies as a pro-life Christian conservative. He also writes defiant songs about the struggle to “tear down wall street” and restore democracy. If not for Schwingel, “Occupy Gainesville” may never have made international headlines on Oct. 14.
President Ron Chandler of The Conservation Initiative for the Asian Elephant said he encourages supporters to write to Rep. Eric Cantor, VA-07, and oppose his intent to cut U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service funding for the Asian Elephant conservation. While he said it is not a huge sum of money, it has helped the Asian [...]
Chris Cano gives 5-gallon buckets like these to businesses to fill with scraps. Cano runs Gainesville Compost out of his home.
Waste: It’s what we do every day.
One local resident is doing his best to turn waste into something valuable.
Turning food leftovers into topsoil, Chris Cano, a 23-year-old UF graduate, started Gainesville Compost: From Waste to [...]
Ellas Anthony McDaniel, 56, son of the legendary rhythm and blues musician Bo Diddley, was arrested Thursday night for civil disobedience on behalf of “Occupy Gainesville.” The story was picked up by The Guardian and mentioned on The Countdown by Keith Olbermann.
It began with an article in Ad Busters calling for a popular uprising against corporate greed and corruption, inspired by a wave of insurrections across the world. The occupation that started in Wall Street continues in Gainesville, Florida.
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania has filed for bankruptcy, and according to the City Controller, their trash-to-energy incinerator is a hundred percent to blame.
"It’s easy to say now, that was a big mistake," said Dan Miller, Harrisburg’s City Controller.
Eight years ago, the city borrowed $125 million to upgrade the incinerator to meet EPA standards.
via Will Gainesville Be The [...]
“They say it’s a good deal, but they won’t say how it’s a good deal,” said attorney Ray Washington, representing “Gainesville Citizens Care,” the group opposing the city’s biomass project.
“The citizens of Pennsylvania said almost exactly what my clients have been saying for six months now,” he said.
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania has filed for bankruptcy, and according [...]
“Everyone’s doing it — or nearly everyone. According to a recent report, a whopping 91 percent of kids and teens between the ages of two and 17 play video games. That’s an increase of nine percent since 2009, which adds up to over 64 million young gamers!”
Is this what we want for our kids? Let’s [...]
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