St. Augustine local competing to study plastic pollution
Adam Morley is happy to talk about bioaccumulation – excited, even. If the build-up of toxic chemicals in organisms from plastic waste wasn’t an issue, he’d probably be even happier.
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Local law enforcement says recent meth bust underscores growing epidemic
By Cal Colgan| jcolgan@flagler.edu
Davis Shores is a neighborhood in St. Augustine’s city limits littered with the towering-two story complexes and mowed lawns of middle class suburbia. But on Feb.17, police found that some residents of this community right across the Bridge of Lions had materials to make what some say is the worst drug in the world.
Local greens offer different ways to fight fast food
By Cal Colgan | jcolgan@flagler.edu
Photos by Phil Sunkel
Richard Villadoniga said the slow food movement has a saying.
“You know your lawyer. You know your doctor. You know your dentist. Why not know your farmer?”
SIFE Blog: TEDx Creative Coast
By Victoria Van Arnam | SIFEMedia@flagler.edu Counter Clockwise, Victoria Van Arnam, and Renée Chiaverini pose with the Loci Design interns Walter Woods and Clayton Dodd in front of the TEDx sign. On Friday, Flagler SIFE and Loci Design exhibited at the TEDx sponsored by Creative…
New Leaf: SIFE grows greener future with ‘Conservation Cadets’
By Lauren Belcher | cbelcher@flagler.edu
Photos by Lauren Belcher
Video by Lauren Belcher
PHOTO CAPTION: SIFE team member Katherine Baggett speaks to local elementary school children about recycling.
Elementary school children in St. Johns County are learning the importance of recycling and reducing garbage.
Flagler College’s Students in Free Enterprise team organized Conservation Cadets to help teach students to be eco-friendly.
Flagler Greenpeace hosts organic picnic
By Erica Andrew |gargoyle@flagler.edu
Although weather delays postponed the Organic Delight picnic, it finally took off without a hitch Wednesday, March 3.
Victoria Priester, Flagler College Greenpeace co-president said they saw a “positive response from everyone.”
WEBCAST 1
By Gargoyle Staff | gargoyle@flagler.edu
The Gargoyle’s Priscilla Muller and Cal Colgan anchor The Gargoyle’s latest innovation, The Gargoyle Webcast. They run down the major stories on campus and send out to sports reporter Kristina Haumschild to see how the baseball team is doing.
St. Augustine local shuns technology
By Cal Colgan | jcolgan@flagler.edu
Photo by Cal Colgan
St. Augustine local Sumner Gray would rather live in a makeshift shelter in the mountains than have the latest technological gizmo.
Last November, I interviewed Gray at his West Augustine home. Sitting out by his patio in front of a burned-out fire pit, Gray, 34, said he is interested in getting to the root of social problems, and he is not new to grassroots politics. He is the co-founder of People United to Stop Homelessness and a former co-owner of Loose Screws, the now-defunct independent music and bookstore that also served as an activist meeting center.
Farmers market vendor squeezes all-natural ingredients into lemonade
By Erica Andrew | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Photos by Mary Elizabeth Fair
The farmers market that takes place Wednesdays at the St. Johns County Pier and Saturdays at the St. Augustine Amphitheatre gives students, locals and tourists a chance to sample what St. Augustine has to offer- including a vendor serving all-natural lemonade.
The Sister Shack, a vendor at the farmers markets, makes lemonade, Italian ice, and smoothies from all natural products. Unlike the many lemonade brands that use corn syrup and additives, the Sister Shack boasts their use of fresh fruit and raw natural sugar.