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 [...]
Amory Lovins has a new book out today. That’s worthy of a news story in itself, since many of his previous works — books and papers going back to the 1970s — have spurred radical new thinking in energy, transportation, and building systems. And not just thinking: an impressive list of companies and governments around [...]
It is that easy being green — at work
October 18, 2011 21:10:37
Monica Weymouth
Metro World News
At home, most of us wouldn’t think about leaving the air-conditioner on full blast while leaving town for a couple days. Or tossing a luncheon’s worth of plastic bottles directly in the trash. Or using individually packaged creamers for a cup [...]
I’m in Miami at the Society of Environmental Journalists conference, and I thought I’d post a few of the places I’m looking forward to revisiting for my SEJ friends and colleagues. The following are excerpts from The Explorer’s Guide to South Florida, which I co-authored with Sandra Friend. Fair warning: if something sounds interesting, please [...]
“Everyone’s doing it — or nearly everyone. According to a recent report, a whopping 91 percent of kids and teens between the ages of two and 17 play video games. That’s an increase of nine percent since 2009, which adds up to over 64 million young gamers!”
Is this what we want for our kids? Let’s [...]
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 [...]
Steve Jobs was not just another member of the crowd. Take a look at Jobs’ toast to “the crazy ones” in the video (below), courtesy of 9to5Mac.
via Steve Jobs Narrates Unaired ‘Think Different’ Commercial VIDEO.
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 [...]
Doonesbury characters speak out about climate change.
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 [...]
Disappearing Destinations: 37 Places in Peril and What Can Be Done to Help Save Them, by Kimberley Lisagor and Heather Hansen is “A beautiful and memorable look at some of the most gorgeous endangered places on the planet.
“Machu Picchu is a mesmerizing, ancient Incan city tucked away in the mountains of Peru, but [...]
NPR reports that according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, this summer has been the second-hottest ever recorded in the United States, helping to push power demand in homes to record levels. As some worry that the growing use of fossil fuels to produce electricity for cooling is unsustainable, one [...]
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 [...]
In a surprise move, authors’ groups slammed their one-time university partners with a lawsuit demanding that the schools’ surrender digital collections and stop working with Google (NSDQ: GOOG). The lawsuit opens a new phase in the fight over digital libraries and comes the same week that Google’s controversial books settlement is expected to die in [...]
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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 [...]
Many people have made the commitment to go green in their personal lives, so why not extend that mindset to the workplace? Co-author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Greening Your Business (ISBN: 9781592578856, $19.95) Trish Riley will reply to questions during a live TweetChat on Thursday, September 1 at 1 pm ET. She will [...]
The owner of a Venice health food market and two other people were arrested on charges related to the allegedly unlawful production and sale of unpasteurized dairy products, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office said.
The arrests of James Cecil Stewart, Sharon Ann Palmer and Eugenie Bloch on [...]
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