SustainFloyd’s latest offering in our online film series is the new documentary The Revolution Generation from Josh & Rebecca Tickell, (Kiss the Earth, Fuel, Pump). The film will be available for on-demand viewing anytime from Earth Day, April 22 to May 22, 2022. Please complete the sign up form below …
We are celebrating the UN International Day of Happiness, March 20, 2022 with a free on-demand showing of the film Mission: Joy. The film is an enlightening, peek-behind-the curtain, 90-minute documentary built around an historic 5-day meeting between two of the world’s most consequential spiritual leaders – His Holiness the Dalai Lama …
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Bring your #5 plastic & plastic film Floyd County is working hard to provide recycling options to our community and we have great resources in the recycling containers at the green box sites. Please use those for the commonly recycled items. It is important to clean and sort your recycling so …
This event has been cancelled. Please email us if you have any questions. SustainFloyd is pleased to announce Coming Home to the Living Earth, a week-long in-person retreat on June 4-11, 2022 at Spikenard Honeybee Sanctuary in Floyd, Virginia. Join our skilled forest guides and naturalists for a deep dive …
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Working with Virginia Tech Department of Industrial Design and their Chair, Martha Sullivan, SustainFloyd sponsored a competition to design products or systems that could reduce waste. After an initial presentation of SustainFloyd’s challenge by Haden Polseno-Hensley, Mark Bolt, and Katy Morikawa the students, working in groups, started an intense process …
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The film, The Seeds of Vandana Shiva, is available to view from Thursday, January 27 until end of day Sunday, January 30, 2022. To follow up on this powerful films, we have a special discussion scheduled for Tuesday, February 1, 2022 at 6:00pm EST. The discussion features Jeffrey Smith of …
We are so excited to be able to share this film with you. This is a new release, still doing the rounds of the film festivals and just being released for community screenings. It is the powerful story of Vandana Shiva. Vandana Shiva is a modern-day revolutionary, and for forty …
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Following the screening of the film ‘The Divided Brain’ we were lucky to be able to offer a webinar featuring two women with experience in brain health to join us in a conversation.Sandy Jahmi Burg is a Certified Focusing Trainer at The International Focusing Institute. She read The Divided Brain …
Join us to recycle #5 plastic, plastic film, printer ink, household batteries, lightly worn sneakers, medicine bottles, razor blades and packaging from Toms, Weleda & Burt’s Bees. We will be making a special collection of e-waste to deliver to Carillion Clinic’s e-waste recycling event in Roanoke. This is also happening …
Our holiday gift to the community is a free online showing of the documentary, THE DIVIDED BRAIN. This is a mind-altering odyssey about one man’s quest to prove a growing imbalance in our brains, and to help us understand how this makes us increasingly unable to grapple with critical economic, environmental and social issues; ones that shape our very future as a species.
In addition to our usual collections we will be taking corks for a local school project and surplus gift wrapping materials for our free Sustainable Gift Wrapping service on Dec 18. We’ll also be taking the usual materials, listed on our recycling page: https://sustainfloyd.org/programs/recycling-initiative/
The Story of Plastic is an expose revealing the ugly truth behind plastic pollution and the false solution of plastic recycling.