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Trish Riley

Founding Director

, Cinema Verde

Trish is founding director of Cinema Verde, an environmental film and arts festival held in Gainesville, Florida, since 2010. She has been dedicated to helping the world understand environmental issues and sustainable solutions since childhood, when she had the good fortune to grow up playing in the forest, then watching it torn down to make way for houses and pavement.

Trish is a national award-winning investigative and environmental journalist and author, with work published in major newspapers and national and international magazines. Her books include The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Greening Your Business (with Heather Gadonniex, Penguin 2009); The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Green Living (2007); Palm Beach, Miami, and The Florida Keys: A Great Destination (Norton 2009); and The Explorer’s Guide to South Florida (with Sandra Friend, Norton 2009).

She is a past board member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists, and an honorary member of the Golden Key International Honour Society.

She is the founder of GoGreenNation.org, a website designed to promote green jobs, resources, and businesses; and GoGreenGift.com, an eco-starter kit. She also founded Green Drinks Gainesville, a local chapter of an international networking group open to anyone interested in sustainability issues.

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Ignorance may be bliss, but knowledge is power

Cinema Verde provides environmental education to the public to help ensure that students, their parents, our political leaders and the titans of industry can learn about the problems we are facing so we can all work together to solve these problems. We all want our children to have the best possible future and to be able to enjoy happy, healthy lives. Students in Florida - and everywhere - have a resource to learn essential information about the environment and the challenges we face.

The Florida Department of Education has agreed to suppress knowledge about environmental issues that are visibly threatening our future - essentially disabling our children from solving the problems that our generation and our parents’ generation have created. What parent would want their children to perish in fires like those in Maui and California or floods such as those in Maine and Vermont? When we send our children to school, we want to educate them so they can lead better lives - we are arming them with knowledge to build a safe and prosperous future for themselves and the world. What value is there in providing them with false information that will prevent them from that brighter future? Fossil fuel companies profit from poisoning our planet and they literally pay some of our government leaders to keep their profits flowing. Cinema Verde provides environmental education to the public to help ensure that students, their parents, our political leaders and the titans of industry can learn about the problems we are facing so we can all work together to solve these problems. We all want our children to have the best possible future and to be able to enjoy happy, healthy lives. Students in Florida - and everywhere - have a resource to learn essential information about the environment and the challenges we face. Cinema Verde offers a discount program for professors and students to access our films via our website at www.CinemaVerde.org. [More info: Discount for Professors and Students] Or anyone with a Roku tv or roku device can access our films for free. The films are organized in both places by category - you can search for water films or films on Florida, etc., to see what you want. https://www.cinemaverde.org/roku We gather articles from reputable sources around the world to provide environmental news on our GoGreenNation environmental news page: https://www.cinemaverde.org/news We’re not like Nazi’s, as the propaganda being fed to our children under the guise and sanction of education in Florida suggests. We at Cinema Verde are dedicated to helping and protecting our children and all children - even those of fossil fuel company executives and sold-out politicians who continue to spew lies - they’re trading our lives to fill their pockets with cash. We don’t have to allow this. Knowledge is power. Tune in to Cinema Verde - we are powering the planet for a successful future. – By Trish Riley, Director of Cinema Verde and award-winning investigative environmental journalist and author.

Local Candidates on the Environment

Cinema Verde invited local candidates to share their positions on environmental concerns.