Fakahatchee Strand hosts a diverse variety of ecosystems, from wet swamp prairies to dry hardwood hammocks and pine rock lands. Painter Margaret Tolbert captures the dramatic sweep of the prairie in December.
To View Video:
via Greater Everglades Conservation Atlas: Fakahatchee Strand
- YouTube.
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 [...]
Downward Dog, Upward Fog
By Meryl Davids Landau
What a treat to find a book that gently guides those of us who know there’s more to life but haven’t found the route to it…. Meryl Davids Landau has penned a fictional novel reflecting her own quest to a spiritual life that celebrates our personal power rather than [...]
In the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, BP sought and obtained permission to use dispersants, detergent-like compounds, to break up the 200 million gallons of Louisiana sweet crude, into tiny droplets that would mix throughout the water column, trying to lessen the immediate impact of the oil slick on fragile coastal ecosystems.
via Impact [...]
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 [...]
April 30, 2011
Homestead, Fla. – – At a mock emergency evacuation followed by a press conference today, diverse local groups and citizens expressed their concerns about the public health, financial and environmental risks that Florida Power & Light’s (FPL) costly proposal to build two additional nuclear reactors imposes on South Florida residents. The concerns voiced [...]
The day after the Florida House passed a bill to ban implementation of water quality standards set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Administration, Gov. Rick Scott on Friday asked the agency to rescind a January 2009 determination that the federal rules are necessary for Florida.
Opponents of the federal requirement say the state is better equipped [...]
Aubrey Hampton: An Organic Legacy for our Future
By Trish Riley
Our world has lost a treasured pioneer who spent his life not only fighting chemical contamination and animal injustices, but forging a safer path into the future for both humans and animals. Aubrey Hampton died in Tampa Florida on May 9.
I had the great pleasure to [...]
Studies have shown that eating locally grown food improves health, supports local economies, promotes the biodiversity of crops and reduces the environmental impact of shipping food around the world. Here are 5 convenient ways to eat local in Gainesville (and elsewhere).
Slow Food Gainesville is going to Cedar Key, and you’re invited! You will learn about the sustainable and innovative clam industry in Cedar Key through various activities, including:
Presentation by Leslie Sturmer at the FWS Marine Lab
Tour of the clam facilities
Potluck dinner at Peg and Russ Hall’s home, featuring local clams. Everyone is invited to bring [...]
The 2011 Eat Local Challenge begins May 1st. The event is a challenge to eat local seasonal food throughout the entire month of May. A list of locally owned restaurants participating in the event is available online. The event is hosted by Hogtown HomeGrown founder, Stefanie Hamblen. For more information, visit Hogtown HomeGrown’s website at [...]
As a resident of Vermont studying the impacts of the McNeil biomass power incinerator in Burlington, VT, I was surprised to hear former Gainesville Mayor Pegeen Hanrahan holding up McNeil as a “model” for a 100-megawatt incinerator proposed for Gainesville. Her quote that McNeil has “operated successfully, and helped sustain healthy forests in that part [...]
Santa Fe College is offering 17 new courses for the Spring 2011 Community Education term. Classes will begin by Saturday, Apr. 9.
Community Education includes a wide selection of unique courses from computers and technology to gardening and the outdoors. To view a complete list of courses, visit http://dept.sfcollege.edu/ce/ce_indexA.html.
One of the new courses, taught by Stefanie Hamblen, founder [...]
The Obama administration has taken back the $2.4 billion allocated to Florida for high-speed trains and is inviting other states to apply for the money, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Friday.
The project, which would have connected Tampa and Orlando with high-speed trains, was rejected by Florida Gov. Rick Scott, a Republican. He said he didn’t [...]
“I have critically high levels of chemicals in my body,” 33-year-old Steven Aguinaga of Hazlehurst, Mississippi told Al Jazeera. “Yesterday I went to see another doctor to get my blood test results and the nurse said she didn’t know how I even got there.”
Aguinaga and his close friend Merrick Vallian went swimming at Fort Walton [...]
The Stephen Foster neighborhood in northwest Gainesville is no ordinary stretch of suburbia. Just before night falls, sunlight passes through a canopy of leaves, illuminating the walls of not-so-perfectly aligned houses. Backyards reveal forests and creeks, invisible to those who drive by on the street. At the core of the neighborhood, there’s a 90-acre toxic wasteland, concealed by bushes and barbed-wire fences, known as the Cabot/Koppers Superfund site. No one agrees on the extent of the pollution or what needs to be done about it. The EPA released their Record of Decision, which details their plans to clean the site, on Feb. 2. Have we finally reached the end of the road?
Protect Gainesville’s Citizens, a local advocacy group, mobilizes a task force of artists around town to capture the science and emotions associated with a toxic Superfund site and to document the struggle of those who live nearby.
In what has become an annual exercise, the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) along with other agencies, yesterday presented to the Legislature reductions they would make if ordered to reduce their budgets by 15%. In a year when the state faces a nearly $4B shortfall, this is likely to be more than just an exercise; [...]
Unknown to most Americans, a surprising number of U.S. cities have drinking water with unhealthy levels of chemicals and contaminants. In fact, some organizations and state environmental agencies that collect and analyze water data say the level of chemicals in some Americans' drinking water not only exceeds recommended health guideline but the pollutants even exceed [...]
Coconut Grove, FL (January 14, 2011) – A symposium on Ethnobotany: a 17th-Century Vision of our 21st-Century World, will be held Saturday, February 5 at the Kampong of the National Tropical Botanical Garden (NTBG) , 4013 S. Douglas Road, Coconut Grove, Florida.
The information contained in the encyclopedic Herbarium Amboinense, is considered a gold mine for [...]
The Lake County Water Authority is seeking applications for more than $300,000 in stormwater grants designed to help Lake cities lessen the impact of stormwater runoff going into local lakes.Removal of pollutants — including grease, pesticides, heavy metals and animal wastes — from stormwater provides an important benefit by reducing pollution that causes excessive algae [...]
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