Tag Archives: The Repurpose Project

The Gainesville community held two neighborhood clean-ups as part of a community-wide service project called The Big Event Saturday.

Friends and families gathered around an array of mismatched chairs and tables, sat back and enjoyed food and drinks provided by local restaurants and breweries for the Repurpose Project's Winter Festival on Saturday.

In honor of Earth Day, Repurpose Project Runway will host a fashion show on Friday featuring all recycled outfits and jewelry.

Alachua County is looking to show that one person’s trash can be another’s coffee table. To educate residents about how useful repurposing can be, Alachua County’s Office of Sustainability is set to host a lunch-and-learn workshop focused on the benefits of reusing what might otherwise become household trash. Attendees will learn how to make a …

Founders Mike Myers and Sarah Goff created an environmental cooperative, The Repurpose Project, three years ago to help alleviate reusable trash from entering landfills. Today, Goff and Myer's efforts are widely celebrated throughout the Gainesville community with local residents joining in the festival of saving the planet through shared responsibility.

The Lubee Bat Conservancy holds an annual bat festival to educate people about the species. This year, the turnout is expected to be larger than ever with more land available, more vendors and more attractions.

The Freewheel Project, set to open this August, is already collaborating with community to bring bike education and accessibility. It hopes to provide training and tools to those who would not otherwise have access in an attempt to help grow the local cycling community.

After moving to its new location next to Satchel's Pizza, The Repurpose Project has more than quadrupled in size and substance. The owners plan to expand with the additional space, adding a garden, play area for kids and an event area.

Eight months after Gainesville’s City Commission purchased a chunk of land home to three businesses, the localities are discussing their impending move.

The Gainesville City Commission approved the approximately $1 million purchase of the land to use as the new site for Fire Station No. 1. The Repurpose Project, Everyman Sound Company and The Church of Holy Colors will have until December 2014 to move.