Sustainable Alachua County

Thanks to everyone who came out to our 2010 SAC Meetup  and FUNdraiser atSharab.  The second floor (the elevator was out so apologies to those needing wheelchair access!) was packed and with great local food from The Jones and Leonardo’s 706 as well as sample brews from our new friends at Gainesville’s only micro-brew, Swamphead Brewery (thanks Luke!). Special thanks as well goes to Sharab (they go well beyond their recycling requirements) for allowing us to turn down the house music while we went through a short presentation on the past, present and future of SAC.  In the process of raising awareness about SAC’s mission and goals for this year, we raised over $300 for the upcoming Gainesville Environemental Film Festand over $125 for ourselves (thank  you!!).  We received a lot of good feedback on what you the community, would like to see SAC focus on for the next year and I believe we have some new volunteers to help create a few new working groups including one of particular interest to me, the Built Environment Working Group.  Please check out our sidebar on the right of our homepage now that has four topic areas that you can access and create comments to current postings on those topic areas.  This will hopefully lead to the creation of some intesting conversations and eventual working groups.  Also please click on the new youtube tutorial from our web guru, Chris Cano on how to successfully create your own profile, join a group and post events.  Hope to see you at the Gainesville Environmental Film Fest and don’t forget to check back soon and often!

-Michael Amish
SAC Board President