The NY Times reports:
SAN FRANCISCO — On the Chinese calendar, this week ushers in the year of the dragon. But here, it feels a lot more like the year of the wolf.
Richard Cockle/The Oregonian, via Associated Press
John Stephenson, a biologist, measured the stride of the gray wolf known as OR7 in Crater Lake [...]
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.
Kathy Johnston reports in San Luis Obispo’s New Times on a project that needs some laws to change
Using fish heads and fish carcasses to help crops grow well—an ancient practice that pre-dates the Pilgrims—is an idea that recently caught on in San Luis Obispo County.
People enthusiastically jumped on board this fall to make a fish-composting [...]
Progress Energy’s disastrous do-it-yourself upgrade to the Crystal River nuclear plant was such a risky idea that the company’s own internal report warned against it.
The company’s lack of expertise and experience “outweigh strengths and opportunities,” the report said. “Those weaknesses cannot be changed to strengths in sufficient time to plan and implement” the project.
The report’s [...]
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 [...]
A billion-dollar project by SolarCity to stick solar panels on military housing across the country will proceed solely with private financing, after the federal government backed out in the wake of Solyndra’s bankruptcy.
SolarCity, based in San Mateo, will report today that it has reached an agreement with Bank of America Merrill Lynch to fund the [...]
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.
Jonah Owen Lamb of the San Luis Obispo Tribune takes a look at local farms that collect federal subsidies, see below. The newspaper editorialized about the issue the following week. The report is welcome, now that we have a chance to spend time examining the Farm Bill, which had been shrouded in secrecy during SuperCommittee [...]
As reported in the San Luis Obispo Tribune:
A proposed state ballot initiative would force Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant, as well as California’s other nuclear plant, to shut down, causing electricity rates to jump and possibly resulting in rolling blackouts, according to a nonpartisan analysis.
The proposed Nuclear Waste Act of 2012 would require that no [...]
David Sneed reports:
A wide variety of opinions about climate change and how the county should respond — ranging from a belief that the county is not doing nearly enough to fight global warming to fears that the plan would be a step in turning the sovereignty of our country over to the United Nations — [...]
California Watch reports:
In a push to expand across California without interference, Wal-Mart is increasingly taking advantage of the state’s initiative system to threaten elected officials with costly special elections and to avoid environmental lawsuits.
The Arkansas-based retailer has hired paid signature gatherers to circulate petitions to build new superstores or repeal local restrictions on big-box stores. [...]
HuffPo reports:
Humpback whales shocked a bikini-clad surfer and two kayakers this past week when they leapt out of the water and lunged disturbingly close to the group in the waters off Santa Cruz, California.
According to the Los Angeles Times, the humpback whales are traveling unusually close to the shore in search of food. In turn, [...]
In the face of budget cuts and apathetic politicians, independent researchers fight to save Florida’s springs.
The warning came in an email to the supervisor of a complicated project at the Crystal River nuclear plant.”I just want to reiterate my concern … ”It was March 9, 2009. To replace aging steam generators, Progress Energy was about to cut a big hole in the concrete building that shields the nuclear reactor.Charles Hovey [...]
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 [...]
International environmentalist Bill McKibben spoke to a cheering “room full of people who are ready to go to work,” a sold-out crowd at the Fremont in San Luis Obispo on Oct. 30. It was an extra stop on his tour, “Brave New Planet: The Fight for a Livable Climate.” The San Luis Obispo Tribune’s environment [...]
At first glance, California’s vast Mojave Desert seems barren: mile after mile of dust, sand and scrubby creosote bush under a blistering sun. But the huge desert, which spans an area larger than West Virginia, is becoming speckled with gigantic solar power plants that are creating hundreds of construction jobs and, when complete, will generate [...]
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 [...]
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