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 [...]
Authentic EcoLodges by Hitesh Mehta
This review is part of the Green Books campaign. Today 200 bloggers take a stand to support books printed in an eco-friendly manner by simultaneously publishing reviews of 200 books printed on recycled or FSC-certified paper. By turning a spotlight on books printed using eco- friendly paper, we hope to raise [...]
Cinema Verde Fundraiser at the new Urban Flats – Please bring your friends and join us for this opportunity to raise funds for Cinema Verde! From 6 to 8 p.m. on Nov. 9, Urban Flats (115 SE 1st Avenue) will host a fundraiser for Cinema Verde. All-you-can-eat and drink wine, flatbread and [...]
Contributor Trish Riley reported live from the Costa Rica Adventure Race, which featured a 500km coast-to-coast course through northern Costa Rica.
via Costa Rica AR | Gear Review | Gear Junkie.
Cat Crones Cradle invites you to a Natural Foods Gala featuring Chef Mike Rinska of The Jones, demonstrating his natural cooking with local organic foods.
The day includes live music, garden and greenhouse tours… all for just $1.
For more info: Natural_Food_Gala_2010
Hello, Green Drinks Gainesvillians!
Thanks so much to Duane Olsen of Pizza Palace for hosting a great meeting last month – he’s invited us back anytime. Thanks, too, to Mike Amish and Jacob Cravey, who provided an interesting presentation on the Rain Barrels of Hope project that’s helping create housing for earthquake victims in Haiti. New [...]
Bouncing down chunky mountain roads, we hit the coastal plain and smooth pavement as another tropical night enveloped Costa Rica. Suddenly, out of thick darkness, a cluster of bikes flashed in our headlights. We stopped… Helena Compignie of the French Wenger team was helping to fix a flat by flashlight. “The hardest part is staying [...]
Let Brack Barker show you Florida’s natural beauty:
“Greetings from the Hidden Nature Coast,
I’m one of the outfitters/guides that will be offering guided kayak tours at the coastal community areas during the week of September 18 – 25.
Right now, I have plenty of openings for the tours that I’m conducting, and they are listed [...]
Palms swayed in the ocean breeze as we relaxed poolside in Costa Rica. We watched in amazement as dozens of guests hobbled past color-drenched tropical flowers, barely able to walk on swollen, blistered feet. Hotel Villas Playa Sámara, a charming five-star beach resort on the Nicoya Peninsula’s Pacific Coast, was the final destination point for [...]
Standing on the narrow edge of the Costa Rican highway watching the bob of tiny red and white lights sway, we held our breath as the semi-truck barreled past the Wenger team fading into the dark night. The last thing Helene Compignie, their female cyclist had said to us just moments before: “The hardest [...]
The federal Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday that it intended to ban all dumping of sewage by large cargo and cruise ships in California waters out to the three-mile limit. The state has been requesting the ban for five years. http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/25/keeping-ship-sewage-from-the-california-coast/?src=mv
Here, in one of the last Tuscan valleys to have remained entirely unspoilt since medieval times, the local comune has received an application to build a “well-being centre” 500 metres from a national monument, the Castello di Potentino, along with other residential structures, [...]
Ron Cunningham celebrates the Blue Path:
“And here’s the bottom line message of Blue Path:
“Florida’s springs are degrading at an alarming rate as a direct result of our collective over-pumping of the ground water and adding too many nutrients to the groundwater,” says Annie Pais, director of Florida’s Eden, the organization that assembled the exhibit. “Simply [...]
NATIONAL “PUBLIC LANDS” DAY, September 25, 2010
September 25, 9am-noon – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park, Alachua Co, FL – Farm Day
Help clean up along the trails, paths and around the historic buildings at the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings historic farm, a National Historic Landmark. The work includes weeding and hoeing paths to the farmyard and [...]
August 12 through December 12, 2010
The Blue Path provides visitors a view of Florida’s water through the window of North Florida’s freshwater springs. This region is home to more springs–over 700 discovered so far–than any other place on Earth. The Exhibit examines how rapid degradation of Florida springs signals much bigger [...]
Ocean Diving: Stepping into Another World
Freelance writer Trish Riley steps into the adventuresome waters of ocean diving, giving us a newcomer’s perspective on the sport.
via Subaru Drive Magazine.
More than two months after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, Pensacola awoke Wednesday to the largest onslaught of black crude on Florida’s coast, as more than nine miles of white shoreline and beaches were soaked with syrupy oil.
A health advisory has been issued by Escambia County for parts of Pensacola Beach and Fort Pickens.
“It’s pretty ugly. [...]
We were thrilled with the response and excitement generated by the 2010 festival and we are beginning to plan on next year’s festival. Our 2011 festival will continue to bring informative and inspiring environmental films to Gainesville and we look forward to expanding our reach to the community at large, helping [...]
Here’s something that sounds wonderful – $5 for a Full Moon Paddle:
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Time: 9:00pm – 11:00pm
Location: Kate’s Fish Camp
Street: 6518 SE Hawthorne rd.
City/Town: Gainesville, FL
via Facebook | Full Moon Paddle.
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