SustainFloyd is working with the Floyd Native Plant Initiative to bring more native pollinator plants to the community. This Wednesday, May 24, is the first giveaway of seedlings that are being grown by volunteers to research which plants can be recommended to gardeners and growers in the Floyd County. You …
SustainFloyd is pleased to offer “The Invisible Extinction” for free on-demand viewing from April 20th to 22nd, 2023. Please complete the sign up form below to receive a registration link for the film. Two globetrotting microbiologists, Gloria Dominguez-Bello and Marty Blaser, race to save our vanishing microbes before it’s too late. …
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SustainFloyd’s latest online film offering is the PBS documentary Extinction: The Facts. We are happy to offer free online streaming of this important video from PBS. David Attenborough has spent a life in love with the natural world and has produced some of the most beautiful documentaries of wild life …
When all the visitors leave and it’s time to move on to a fresh New Year there are abundant opportunities to take the more ecologically friendly road. From the wrappings and packaging of the presents under the tree, the tree itself, the old Christmas lights, unwanted gifts and overstocked food …
Rain or Shine: Tomorrow we’re collecting recyclables and reusables tomorrow. Bring them to the SustainFloyd office, next to the Farmers Market. So much of what we throw out, or even recycle, can be more environmentally handled by finding a reuse. Many of our market vendors and other small businesses in …
The Story of Plastic presents a cohesive timeline of how we got to our current global plastic pollution crisis and how the oil and gas industry has successfully manipulated the narrative around it. From the extraction of fossil fuels and plastic disposal to the global resistance fighting back, The Story of Plastic is …
Our next documentary film will be available for your on-demand free viewing from July 7th to 9th, 2022 It delves in the life and projects of Stewart Brand. His latest project is as co-chair of The Long Now Foundation, established to foster long-term thinking and responsibility. The film raises some …
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Come check out The Refill Station at the market! It is an eco-friendly refill shop for the purchasing of bulk cleaning products. Please bring your own bottles (or use one of ours), to refill with laundry detergent, castille soap, dish soap, all purpose cleaner, and more. Just tare your jar, fill …
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We are participating in the NexTrex Challenge. To complete this challenge we need to collect 500 pounds of plastic film in six months! Bring your plastic film to the Farmer’s Market on our recycling day the first Saturday of every month. Once we complete the challenge, you’ll get to enjoy …
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Water is a looming issue: too little of it in some places, too much in others. The small community of Newtok in Alaska is threatened by rising water. It is one of the early US communities to face the extreme situation of needing to relocate a whole community. Unless we …
With the reopening of the Farmers Market we will be offering a monthly recycling event. Here’s a list of the items we will be collecting for recycling this month: #5 Plastic (for example yogurt pots) Medicine Bottles with Caps (labels removed) Plastic Film (for example single use shopping and produce …
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 …