Saving Our Reefs
Get ready to tune your TV to WLRN Channel 17 tonight – or set your TiVo – at 8pm. It is the premiere of a new documentary called Saving Our Reefs. It was filmed mainly in the Florida Keys, and tells the local story of our local coral reefs. I had the pleasure of seeing it last week at a special WLRN event. It has beautiful footage, but also tells a very important story. In this...
Read MoreShort Attention Span Eco-Film Fest
About a week from now, the Earthdance Short Attention-Span Film Festival is showing on Miami Beach. It seems like a good activity to try and get a greenerMIAMI group to attend. If you are interested in attending as part of a group with greenerMIAMI, please visit our group events page. Sign up for the group and start a conversation. More about the film festival: $6-$10. 17 environmentally themed...
Read MoreBooks In My Life
I was tagged by Summer for this book meme. All books are linked to the Miami Library site. Please utilize your local library and share books, it’s the green thing to do! A book that changed my life The Mindbody Prescription: healing the body, healing the pain by John Sarno. I’m one of those people that has suffered back, arm, leg, etc. problems all of my life. I was recently...
Read MoreBook Review: The Omnivore’s Dilemma
I first heard about the book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, on the Colbert Report, I really wasn’t that interested. I’m not an omnivore, after all. I guess I didn’t get what the book was about. Then I read Steve’s review, and decided that I should take a look at this book. The Omnivore’s Dilemma follows author Michael Pollan’s experiences through preparing four...
Read MoreSouth Florida 2010
I recently checked out a book from the library, South Florida 2010: Four Scenarios for the Region’s Future by Gerald Harris. The report, found online in its entirety (I just saved you a trip to the library!), was written in the latter half of the year 2000. It was meant to serve as a discussion for the future of South Florida. The four scenarios are titled: "Rio in South...
Read MoreMore on Electric Cars, with Chelsea Sexton
Recently, I got to feel like an important reporter when I was able to ask Chelsea Sexton, the leading protagonist in the new film Who Killed the Electric Car?, some questions about electric cars, the film, and the future. Read on for the interview! And just for reference: three related posts. gM: It seems to me that we heard nothing about electric vehicles prior to the movie, and now we have...
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