Citizens Co-op Opens in Gainesville
May 1, 2011A change is coming to Gainesville, and the movement is starting with a grocery store.
Archive for May 1st, 2011
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A Closer Look at TOMS
May 1, 2011For every pair of TOMS shoes bought, the company will send another pair to kids in need all over the world. But what about the workers in Argentina, China and Ethiopia who make them?
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Raise the Village
May 1, 2011Raise the Village is an iPhone app that allows players to develop a village by buying items like food, clean water and medicine. Here's the twist: every item you purchase gets translated into a tangible product and delivered to Kapir Atiira, a real village in Uganda.
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5 Ways to Add Local Food to Your Diet
May 1, 2011Ever tasted the difference between a ripe, juicy strawberry picked yesterday and an oversized strawberry sprayed with chemicals, picked last week and trucked across the country?
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Sage and Thyme
May 1, 2011They call him the “herb man.” James Steele was Gainesville’s first local provider of herbs and the man behind Gainesville Farm Fresh. But really, who is this elusive man and how did he become who he is today?
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For the Record: Spring 2011
May 1, 2011A music column to review locally grown and produced albums. First installment includes The Hear Hums, Douglass Shields and the X-Factors, To All My Dear Friends, and FICK.
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A Haunting Past: Fenced In
May 1, 2011The following photos were taken of residents and pets living directly along the fence of the Cabot/Koppers Superfund site, an area haunted by decades of toxic pollution.
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The Biomass Controversy
May 1, 2011Although it's officially called the Gainesville Renewable Energy Center (GREC), protesters are calling the county’s planned biomass facility an “incinerator in disguise.”