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 – [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
Cinema Verde and Paynes Prairie State Preserve will present a viewing of Play Again, a film about kids whose lives are immersed in technology getting out to the woods. We’ve selected this film as a complement to the local appearances of Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods, at and Prairie Creek [...]
Cinema Verde will reward students who complete environmental projects with passes to our environmental film and arts festival.
We invite all Alachua County students to participate in our art, literature, film and conservation projects – contact us if you’re interested in learning more: Contact@verdefest.org. Thanks!
Florida, National and International High School and College students:
Cinema Verde has [...]
Join Cinema Verde at the Environmental Youth Summit on Satuday, October 8th, 1 – 4 p.m.
“We will be encouraging youth involvement in environmental issues and the arts at Environmental Youth Summit at Mt Carmel Baptist Church, 2505 NE 8th Ave., Gainesville.
High School and college students are invited to attend the 2nd Annual Youth [...]
Wonderful grant opportunity for teachers who’d like assistance engaging their students in Cinema Verde’s Environmental Arts, Literature, Conservation and Film Projects! Let us know how we can help you if you should choose to apply for these funds! –Trish@Verdefest.org
NGA is delighted to announce that The Home Depot Garden Club continues as the Youth Garden Grants [...]
OUR NEXT FILM will be Garbage Warrior, Saturday, Sept. 17, 7 – 9:30 p.m. at Paynes Prairie Visitor’s Center, Paynes Prairie State Preserve. See the trailer here: http://www.garbagewarrior.com/trailer.html
Thanks so much to those of you who came out to see Economics of Happiness with us at Payne’s Prairie State Preserve Visitor Center on August 13. We [...]
My friend and I surveyed the sweeping landscape from the patio atop the hillside – fields of luscious grapes winding in every direction for miles below. We raised our glasses of sparkling pink wine and toasted the spectacular, clear blue fall day in California’s Napa Valley. “Did you ever imagine we’d be here, sipping champagne [...]
VOTE to see your favorite Environmental Film!
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, [...]
Good morning, Gainesville!
I hope we’ll be seeing you ce soir at Paynes Praire for an encore screening of Cinema Verde’s Best in Show winner: Economics of Happiness, 7 – 9:30 p.m., tonight, August 13, 2011.
PLEASE NOTE: There will be only ONE screening of the film, beginning at 7 p.m., followed by a discussion until 9:30 [...]
Check out my story on Safe Planet – TR:
Telling someone they’ve been poisoned in ways that could reshape their DNA and be carried on to their descendants — possibly causing cancer, neurological illness, mental deficiency, birth defects, brain damage and death — isn’t easy. But that’s Michael Stanley-Jones’ job.
via Safe Planet Campaign Uses the Arts [...]
Hello, All! I am headed to Glacier National Park, and you can bet I’ll be looking for moonbows! Never even heard of them before! Thanks, HuffPo! –tr
>>According to The Guardian, lunar rainbows or ‘moonbows’ are created by the light of the moon, making them best viewed during a full moon. They form on the part [...]
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 [...]
As an environmental journalist and author, I encounter many stories that rarely reach the public consciousness. Every day I learn about communities dealing with contaminated Superfund sites leaching arsenic, benzene, dioxin and hexavalent chromium into their air, soil and water supplies. Quite often, the companies that operated the offending industrial plant have long ago left [...]
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*
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