REMINDER: Cardboard, a film by North Carolina high school student Tara-Nicole Azarian, won “Best Young Filmmaker” at Cinema Verde this year and Carbon for Water, also a Cinema Verde 2012 Official Selection, will both be screened at the Civic Media Center as a benefit for the Home Van Pet Care Project, which provides pet food [...]
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 [...]
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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, [...]
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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*
Green Drinks will meet at the new AlliGator Brewing Co.
Join us for another round of cheer and green success stories with Tall Paul Evans at his new pub, AlliGator Brewing Co, 10 SE 2nd Ave. in downtown Gainesville. Paul will tell us a bit about his new business, we’ll recap Cinema Verde, and we [...]
Right now, I am writing from the second annual Cinema Verde Environmental Film @ Arts Festival taking place in Gainesville, Florida between March 18th and 27th. Never say a group of dedicated and passionate people can’t pull off a huge undertaking. Led by former South Floridian, Trish Riley, the festival’s vision is to educate and [...]
If St. Patrick's Day didn't give you enough green, then consider attending the Cinema Verde Environmental Film Festival, which kicks off Friday.The 10-day festival will run through March 27 and showcase 25 films at 10 venues, an all-day EcoFair on Saturday at the Bo Diddley Plaza, an Eco Art Walk on March 25 and more.
via [...]
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 [...]
TOKYO — Copies of the 2010 Oscar-winning film that depicts the slaughter of dolphins in the Japanese fishing village of Taiji have been delivered free to its residents, compliments of the director.Louie Psihoyos, director of "The Cove," said Monday the film dubbed in Japanese was delivered via regular mail over the weekend to all households, [...]
Cinema Verde Environmental Film and Arts Festival to release film schedule March 2 at Green Drinks
via Films Announced at Green Drinks March 2! « | Cinema Verde.
UF College of Journalism and Communications
Don’t miss “Our Town,” a special presentation Monday, March 7 at 8 p.m. on WUFT-TV.
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Attention all young filmmakers, there is another opportunity for you to showcase your creativity and passion for the environment, the 1 Minute To Save The World film competition.
The international film competition is asking for films centered on regional climate change, no longer than 60 seconds. These will be shown on the Internet, at targeted political [...]
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