By Christine Csencsitz

Your wallet’s perspective on the city’s upcoming biomass facility.

By Lily Wan

Is nuclear energy necessary in Florida? Environmental organizations and industry critics question Progress Energy’s plans to revive Crystal River’s aging nuclear facility (and to build an entirely new one in Levy County).

By Jacquelin Hacker

This weekend, you may want to go outside, get some fresh air, and expand your outlook on the environment. Here are six events around town to help you do so.

By Lydia Fiser

A contractor began rounding up the bison at Paynes Prairie on March 7, and soon the males will be shipped to ranches across the country. Activists have been fighting to stop this day since 2010. But the park’s dilemma dates back more than 100 years.

By Lily Wan

Horse meat may soon be coming to a butcher near you thanks to a new federal spending bill. With the ban lifted, as many as 200,000 horses could be slaughtered each year, and the industry may be subsidized by taxpayers.

By Kelsey Grentzer

From Feb. 24 to March 2, activists, filmmakers, artists and students will showcase environmental issues and solutions from all over the world in Gainesville’s third annual Environmental Film and Arts Festival.

By Lily Wan

Where does your food come from? Monsanto representatives (and a handful of angry protesters) are here at UF to “educate” us.

By Diana Moreno

Gainesville Compost began when UF graduate Chris Cano turned his passions, sustainability and gardening, into his own business. The goal was simple: to turn waste into food using local resources.

By Kelsey Grentzer

The most Kevin Priest spent on his electricity bill this year was $4 in one particularly cloudy month. The rest of the year, his energy bill was paid by the sun, thanks to GRU’s solar feed-in tariff program, the first of its kind in the nation.

By Fine Print Staff

A closer look at Swallowtail Farm, which pushes the boundaries of local food and organic agriculture. Photos by Ashley Crane.