Travel is transforming the world, and not always for the better. Though it’s an uncomfortable reality (who doesn’t like to travel?), it’s something award-winning journalist Elizabeth Becker devoted five years of her life to investigating. The result is Overbooked: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism.
via Is Tourism Destroying the World? – Intelligent Travel.
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 [...]
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.
Timothy Egan checks up on how public lands would fare under Romeny:
SALT LAKE CITY — In a part of Italy where chestnut trees are thick in the Apennine foothills, I once asked a neighbor in the little community where we lived how I might kill a wild boar. This impulse was driven by appetite, mostly [...]
Submit your Environmental Films to Cinema Verde 2013!
Deadline for submissions is November 8th, 2012
The deadline to submit films for the Cinema Verde Environmental Film & Arts Festival is November 18th, 2012. There will be an extension for Withoutabox members until November 18th, 2012. Issues addressed in films may include food, water, waste, energy, chemical contamination, [...]
Juan Sostheim has built this community as a place for people to connect—with like-minded others, with the land and with our own inner voices. You can’t come here and experience this farm’s rhythms without beginning to question things. Here, possibility blossoms into reality with a force matched only by Mother Earth herself.
via True Terroir at [...]
The National Parks released the mitigation part of the agency’s climate change strategy:
Since its inception in 1916, the National Park Service (NPS) has been a world leader in protecting natural and cultural resources. The NPS has preserved many of the country’s greatest treasures and in the process has been a model of resource management. We [...]
Portland: What a Trip!
–Trish Riley
My daughter Rachel moved to Portland shortly after graduating from college and she’d been raving about it ever since. “You’ve got to come here, Mom, you’ll love it. Everybody here is doing what you’ve been talking about and writing about all my life!” She sent me local magazines to whet my [...]
Blue Springs near the Oklawaha circa 1960 and 2012This shows some old family footage of a beautiful clear spring where a friend’s family vacationed in the late 50′s early 60′s. It shows a her sister paddling in the springs and also the ferry they had to take to get there. The Rodman reservoir is drawn [...]
Greetings, Green Gainesville!
Please accept my apology for sending this info on Green Drinks so late…. As you may know, we had a fabulous Cinema Verde and I am still, five days later, a walking zombie. This just slipped my radar. I hope that you plan to attend and that the following [...]
The Cinema Verde Film and Arts Festival once again presented some real film treasures on the big screen here in Gainesville. No doubt some people might think that movies about the environment must be painful to watch and depressing, and so a person might hesitate to see these movies. True, they ALL remind us or [...]
LAST DAY! Come Help Us Celebrate Cinema Verde!
Today’s events – Friday, March 2
4 pm YERT – Your Environmental Road Trip
5-7 pm Superfund Art Project, with a short film by Deep Green Director Matt Briggs AT Thomas Center, 302 NE 6 Ave. FOLLOWING THIS [...]
Twenty-five films, eight days and one cause. Directors, artists, scientists and filmgoers will come together starting this weekend for Gainesville’s third annual Cinema Verde Environmental Film and Arts Festival.
via Cinema Verde Environmental Film and Arts Festival returns | Gainesville.com.
Cinema Verde 2012 will be held at Villa East, 301 N. Main St., Gainesville, FL. Plan to do dinner and a movie with us – food and beverages available from Celebrations Catering!
2012 Festival/Film schedule
2012 Film Trailers
VIP Passes and Tickets
Sponsorship Opportunities
Cinema Verde is a wonderful chance for us to celebrate the beautiful nature that is so [...]
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…
Jan. 30 Sponsor Reception: Don Davis will host a reception to thank [...]
The applause was raucous, growing louder and faster as the beat accelerated.
A dozen dancers, arms stretched, torsos bare, pounded the stage in an increasing frenzy. They turned, swooped, slapped their thighs, swooped and turned again– birds hovering in the air, looking for something below – and shouting, “koburake!” or “rise up!” The audience exploded [...]
Did I mention that I visited Glacier National Park last summer? Here’s my story… (fyi – my editor added the word “may” on page 5 regarding the relationship between mining for fossil fuels and global warming.) Thanks for reading! -Trish Riley
Montana’s Big Sky was a broad, clear blue as I said my goodbyes and boarded [...]
Amidst the obstacles presented by poverty and deforestation, dedicated travelers are sowing the seeds of ecotourism in Haiti’s rugged terrain.
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 [...]
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