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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…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Eight months after Gainesville’s City Commission purchased a chunk of land home to three businesses, the localities are discussing their impending move.
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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.
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Mike Myers, 66, lives in Gainesville and founded Bearded Brothers Solutions, as well as the Repurpose Project, a nonprofit that focuses on finding new uses, especially in art projects or crafts, for old items that he says had "always just been dumped in a hole.”
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Saturday night from 8 p.m. to midnight the Civic Media Center and the Harvest of Hope Foundation will present the North Florida Woody Guthrie Centennial…