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 – [...]
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 [...]
“Now for some good news about nature.
If you’re depressed about all the bad news circulating regarding nature and the environment, you might want to pick up Richard Louv’s new book, “The Nature Principle,” and come listen to him speak at Santa Fe College this Sunday at 2 p.m. in the new Performing Arts Hall…”
via Author [...]
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 [...]
Renowned Author, Richard Louv, to Speak at Santa Fe College Oct. 9
Richard Louv, journalist and author of the international bestseller Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder, will speak at Santa Fe College on the topic of “The New Nature Movement,” based on his new book, The Nature Principle.
The reading [...]
Greetings Green Drinkers!
The cool air is helping to stir up some fun… come join us!
Green Drinks will be hosted by The Midnight Cafe and Bar, 6 – 8 p.m., October 5. Beverley Webb, owner of The Midnight, will tell us about their efforts to be sustainable, and we hope that Chris Cano of Gainesville [...]
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 [...]
The 2012 Public Interest Environmental Conference (PIEC) Eco-Run will benefit the 2012 conference. The Fun Run/Walk Fundraiser will be held Oct. 8 at 7:45 a.m. at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. The run will start in the parking lot. The first 100 registrants will receive a free T-shirt.
Registration Information:
Advanced: $20
Advanced registration form [...]
The Hippodrome Theatre has gotten into some monkey business, and Nim Chimpsky is the source of it.
Starting today, the documentary film “Project Nim” will screen at the Hippodrome Cinema and run until Thursday. The film, directed by James Marsh, tells the story of Nim Chimpsky, a chimpanzee who was raised and nurtured like a human [...]
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 [...]
Hello! Check out my story on community gardening! – tr:
Considered by some to be a sexy subversive social movement, guerrilla gardening is an interesting evolution of activism among artists, horticulturalists, social reformers, and foodies who choose to react against harsh concrete jungles by helping blighted lands return to a semblance of Eden.
via Subaru Drive [...]
Please come to an Open House on Monday, August 29, 2011
at the Alachua County Health Department Auditorium
224 SE 24th Street, Gainesville
Stop by anytime at your convenience between 3:00 and 8:00 p.m.
Come to learn more about our review of soil and sediment test results, cancer data
and other site-related information
Please share your health concerns for us to [...]
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 [...]
The Southern Environmental Law Center says, “demand from existing and proposed [biomass] plants for wood fuel could easily outstrip the supply of available wood waste, meaning the facilities will need standing trees to meet the demand.” Scientific research suggests that growing trees for fuel would create more carbon pollution than allowing forests to absorb and [...]
As construction begins on the Gainesville biomass facility, there is one important aspect that I believe has not been adequately scrutinized nor explained: The claim that the plant’s energy will be produced by burning wood waste left over from forestry and tree-clearing operations
Has the real volume and availability of this material and the economics of [...]
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 [...]
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