UF recommits to climate action
UF first promised to become a leader in climate change mitigation among universities in 2006. Seventeen years later, it’s busy renewing its vows to meet the needs of the shifting climate.
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UF first promised to become a leader in climate change mitigation among universities in 2006. Seventeen years later, it’s busy renewing its vows to meet the needs of the shifting climate.
After over a year of contract negotiations, the Gainesville City Commission has decided to temporarily halt plans to build a solar plant, called the Sand Bluff Solar Project, until it receives approval from a state committee.
Every student in their freshman economics class will learn: Supply needs to be met with demand. Supply of natural gas is no different.
Amy Van Scoik is driven by her passion for feeding people, but this mission grows harder each year as the climate becomes more unpredictable. It’s never clear what extreme weather to expect during the next season.
For most students, Gainesville is only a four-year blip in their lives.
Graduate Assistants United’s bargaining sessions with UF are continuing after more than two months since its last session.
Florida sophomore forward Tatyana Wyche furiously chased after Kentucky’s Ajae Petty. Players flew off the bench on both sides, and an altercation broke out between the teams. The incident resulted in nine total ejections.
UF alumna and former associate researcher Dan Zhu has combated rising sea levels in Indonesia and planned greener buildings in China. After traveling the world fighting climate change, she’s now back to serve the city she’s called home for over 12 years.
In a time when political agreement has become more of an idea than a reality, Alachua County’s proposed meat processing facility has proven an unlikely unifier.
Eva Garcia Ferres can’t afford a car, so her partner bikes to his job at Winn-Dixie while she takes the bus or bikes to UF, where she works as a graduate research assistant in the psychology department.
A self-titled “manic pixie nightmare girl,” Anna “Xarissa” James has been playing shows in Gainesville since she was a teenager. Auditioning for Destination Okeechobee was the next logical step in following her dream of becoming an artist.
Junior guard Trey Bonham brought the rain. Sophomore forward Alex Fudge brought the thunder.
Two weeks ago, nations, corporations, scientists, activists and fossil fuel representatives gathered in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, to discuss the existential threat of climate change. Its climate talks were finalized Nov. 20.
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Florida’s local and statewide races brought Gainesville voters to the polls in full force this Election Day.
Anti-gun control, anti-abortion, anti-illegal immigration — the three policy points Rep. Kat Cammack took all the way to Washington in her first Congressional campaign two years ago.
UF President Kent Fuchs saw the images of about 300 students storming Sen. Ben Sasse’s student forum Oct.10 and was reminded of the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, he said.
During his first visit to UF, presidential finalist Sen. Ben Sasse said he believes in climate change. But members of the community are concerned his political history might not fit with the university’s sustainable future.
The announcement of U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse, (R-Nebraska), as the sole candidate to replace Kent Fuchs as UF president caused a stir not only in the university community, but the national political landscape.
Two Gainesville men were arrested Tuesday for human trafficking at a group home.