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Zero Waste & Circular Economy Panel Discussion- @ Working Foods- Sat- Feb 1- FREE

Zero Waste and Circular Economy Forum
February 1, 2020

Please join us for this free, open to the public workshop – Zero Waste and Circular Economy Forum, February 1, 2020. Two representatives from Zero Waste USA will be moderating this event and share their experiences and expertise in an effort to move Gainesville’s Zero Waste movement forward.

Event details:
• The event will begin at 2pm with an opportunity for the community to mingle, meet with Zero Waste leaders, and become introduced to key elements of a Circular Economy.
• Zero Waste USA (zerowasteusa.org) will present and lead a panel discussion of community experts. Learn about Gainesville’s current Zero Waste efforts and ideas to guide us forward.
• The event will conclude with a journey through the Circular Economy interactive tables. Visit with representatives from organizations and businesses that participate in different components of the Circular Economy: Refuse, Reduce, Share, Reuse, Repurpose, Repair, Recycling and Rot. Learn ways to incorporate these actions into your daily routines. More details on the interactive tabling event coming soon!

Come learn more about Zero Waste and the many components of a Circular Economy.

Also check out their other event – Zero Waste week, which is January 26 – February 1, 2020 – https://www.facebook.com/events/2493238984278206/

A Journey Inside the Micro-world | Wim van Egmond | TEDxGateway

Wim van Egmond takes the audience with him on a guided tour past some of the most wonderful characters you can find in the micro-world. He combines spectacular and funny movies with interesting facts. He primarily works as an independent artist but since his work brings together both art and science his images are often used as scientific illustrations. For many years he collaborated in the development of the unique museum for microbes, Micropia in Amsterdam for which he helped making content, images, films and a visitor friendly microscope. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Video here

Victorian-era microscope slides

In August 2016, the San Diego Natural History Museum (theNAT) opened the Eleanor and Jerome Navarra Special Collections Gallery, a new permanent space dedicated to showcasing the holdings of its research library and rare book room. The core exhibition of the new space, “Extraordinary Ideas from Ordinary People: A History of Citizen Science,” uses library collections to highlight the role of amateur naturalists in the history of science. One of the displays features a selection of Victorian-era microscope slides. Amidst a craze for popular science in the late 19th century, microscopes became commercially available. Suddenly, anyone who could afford a microscope could be a citizen scientist, mounting specimens to glass slides or buying pre-made slides displaying everything imaginable—tiny pieces of plants, shells, insects, fossils, crystals. More here

Charles and Ray Eames - Powers of Ten™ (1977)

Powers of Ten takes us on an adventure in magnitudes. Starting at a picnic by the lakeside in Chicago, this famous film transports us to the outer edges of the universe. Every ten seconds we view the starting point from ten times farther out until our own galaxy is visible only a s a speck of light among many others. Returning to Earth with breathtaking speed, we move inward- into the hand of the sleeping picnicker- with ten times more magnification every ten seconds. Our journey ends inside a proton of a carbon atom within a DNA molecule in a white blood cell. POWERS OF TEN © 1977 EAMES OFFICE LLC. View video here

"Scale is the new Geography" video here

Scale is the New Geography unlocks the true potential of the film, Powers of Ten. It features 12 components that show you how to teach scale by Eames Office director and Charles’s grandson, Eames Demetrios. In addition to this film, Demetrios has curated the world-traveling exhibition, Powers of Ten, and lectured on scale in over 25 countries. Watch the main component below, or purchase the complete DVD at the Eames Shop. 

Lawrence Weschler, Art & Science as Parallel and Divergent Ways of Knowing

Lawrence Weschler discussing "Art & Science as Parallel and Divergent 
Ways of Knowing." Weschler also offered this lecture at the Harn Museum in 
Gainesville, Florida. This particular talk was at UC Berkekeley. Avenali Chair
in the Humanities Lawrence Weschler explores the connection between art
and science, focusing on the thinking of artists Robert Irwin and
David Hockney, and offering a fresh consideration of Rembrandt's
Anatomy Lesson. View here

Sean Miller and Lawrence Weschler discuss "Repurposing the Wunderkammer"
exhibition at the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art here

Nature Lab RISD

Nature Lab here

Rachel Mayeri Critters Speak

Crude Life Critters Speak video

My Louisiana Love - Monique Verdin

My Louisiana Love traces Monique Verdin's quest to find a place in her Native American community--the Houma Nation--as it reels from decades of environmental degradation. Monique must overcome the loss of her house, her father and her partner--and redefine the meaning of home. More here and here