Union of Concerned Scientists
By Elliot Negin
[Editor's note: Elliott Negin, director of news and commentary at the Union of Concerned Scientists, shows how the U.S. news media routinely fail to inform the public about the fossil fuel industry funders behind climate change contrarian think tanks. Negin provides recommendations for how journalists can better serve the public [...]
The City of Gainesville Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs Department is proud to introduce Gainesville’s first Florida “Get to Know” nature-based youth art contest. “Get to Know” invites all youth (19 and younger) to get outdoors and “get to know” their natural world! Head to www.gettoknow.ca to submit art, writing, photography, video or music inspired by your [...]
Denver, CO – Even though sex and global warming are rarely discussed in the same sentence, much less in the same film, the long ignored truth was recently explored in the award- winning environmental documentary Mother: Caring for 7 Billion. In celebration of Earth Day, the filmmakers of Mother announced the Internet release of the “Director’s Cut” of Mother that [...]
The Conservation Trust for Florida is hosting a screening of the Florida Wildlife Corridor Expedition movie at the Hippodrome Cinema in Gainesville. The first showing will be at 6PM followed by a VIP reception from 7 – 8PM and the second film will start at 8:15PM. General admission tickets are $10. VIP tickets are $25 [...]
Truthout talks to Ozzie Zehner about Green Illusions:
Every day, the news about climate change and the harms that are sure to accompany it gets worse and worse. To many environmentalists, the answer is simple: power shift. That is, shift from fossil fuels to clean, green, renewable, alternative energy. Well-meaning concerned citizens and activists have jumped [...]
A long time ago, Florida attracted writers from across the country who waxed poetic about its natural beauty — haunting, unspoiled and profuse. Gradually, then rapidly, natural Florida was bulldozed under and paved over. Writers looked to unspoiled places elsewhere.
Now the national press is again paying attention to natural Florida. And the appraisal is not [...]
by Sally Ince
With eyes fixated on the large screen in front of them viewers saw the good, the bad and the ugly.
Each night for six nights Cinema Verde, an environmental film and arts festival, focused on a specific sustainable topic. The event focused on energy, animals, sustainable business and government, nature, water and even held [...]
Mass Visual Arts: Underground. March 29-April 7th 2013.
Gainesville, FL
Mass Visual Arts announces the opening of a new 10 day long art exhibition featuring artists from throughout the United States. This annual event presents a different theme each year based on input from artists and the general public.
This year’s theme is “Underground” and the artists were selected by [...]
Many believe “Chasing Ice,” the powerful climate change film nominated for an Oscar for its haunting original song, ”Before My Time,” should have made the cut for Best Documentary Feature too. But if you haven’t seen the virtuoso film directed by Jeff Orlowski, you still may have time to run to the nearest theater to watch it on the big screen. You may [...]
Trish Riley has written a great deal of information to educate people about living green. Some of her most notable are the books The Complete Idiots Guide to Green Living and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Greening Your Business. These books provide an abundance of green living tips to help anyone have a greener, healthier life.
Trish began her writing [...]
This film is a part of the Spring Film Series on sustainability presented by Sustainable Santa Fe. This documentary follows artist Vik Muniz to the world’s largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs a group of “catadores”— pickers of recyclable materials. Together Muniz and the catadores [...]
That’s the title of an ad that was turned down for the Super Bowl, but you can watch it here.
Coming up at Cinema Verde Feb. 13 ….
Never will theatre-goers view a glass of clean water in the same way; never will coal be called “clean” again.
Sitting aside one of the beautiful headwaters in the great Appalachian mountain range, framed by the deciduous forests of life, a former coal operator hauntingly confesses to the enormity [...]
The lineup of the fourth annual Cinema Verde Environmental Film & Arts Festival, which starts Saturday and runs through Thursday, offers a wide range of feature-length films, documentaries and shorts over the course of its six days.Screenings and events are planned at Jolie, 6 W. University Ave., with a variety of ticket options available including [...]
Canada’s economic boom depends on tearing up 54,000 square-mile of pristine Alberta wilderness.
Development of the world’s third largest oil supply is proceeding rapidly. It already represents a $3.5 billion annual paycheck to the Canadian government and 75,000 immediate jobs.
But many are aghast at the project, which is also the fastest growing source of greenhouse gas in Canada.
When [...]
Dan Fagin, a long-time member of the Society of Environmental Journalists, has a new book out: Toms River. From his web site:
One of New Jersey’s seemingly innumerable quiet seaside towns, Toms River became the unlikely setting for a decades-long drama that culminated in 2001 with one of the largest legal settlements in the annals of [...]
For decades, Gainesville photographer John Moran has tried to capture the unique beauty of Florida’s nature through his photographs. In that same time, however, he turned a blind eye to the less picturesque signs of environmental changes.
That changed more than a year ago when he set out to document those changes, specifically to the state’s [...]
The fourth annual Cinema Verde Environmental Films & Art Festival kicks off Feb. 9 and continues through Feb. 14. The festival features more than 30 films that hope to inspire individuals to adopt more sustainable lifestyles, said Riley, the event director.
via Cinema Verde Environmental Film & Arts Festival | Gainesville.com.
Christopher Cook reviews the new book for SF Gate:
Foodopoly, by Wenonah Hauter, The New Press, 355 pages, $26.95
What a frightful spectacle our food has become. Human sustenance has been reduced to a corporate portfolio item – one whose success rides increasingly on sheer size and market control. In the name of profit, everything else gets [...]
Do you remember seeing the film Living Downstream at Cinema Verde 2011? Then you’ll remember Sandra Steingraber…. – tr*
“…The people who come after us are going to be inheriting a planet that’s not suitable for life.
I’ve been moved by some of the writings of an environmental attorney, Joseph Guth, who wrote that a functioning biosphere [...]
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