{"id":270849,"date":"2026-05-14T13:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/270849\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T13:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:39:07","slug":"learn-about-floridas-environment-tonight-and-get-a-free-plant-orlando-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/270849\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn about Florida\u2019s environment tonight and get a free plant \u2013 Orlando Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four champions of Florida\u2019s environment will be part of an Orlando Sentinel discussion Thursday evening to discuss key challenges facing our state and area.<\/p>\n<p>As part of its 150th anniversary celebration, the Sentinel will host the environmental event at the 4Roots Farm Education Building, 1101 John Young Parkway, Orlando, from 5 to 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The event is free and open to the public, but attendees must register in advance. Sign up for tickets at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/orlando-sentinels-150th-anniversary-our-environment-tickets-1988340535065?aff=oddtdtcreator&amp;keep_tld=true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OrlandoSentinel.com\/RSVP<\/a>. Space is limited.<\/p>\n<p>As a special thank you, everyone in attendance will receive a free plant to take home, courtesy of Jungle Room\/BWH Plant Co. in College Park.<\/p>\n<p>Among the participants are Julie Wraithmell, Vice President and Executive Director of Audubon Florida; Kim Dinkins, Policy and Planning Director for 1000 Friends of Florida; and Ashley Rearden, Director of Conservation for the East Coast Zoological Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>John Rivers, CEO of 4R Restaurant Group and chairman of 4Roots \u2013 our event site \u2013 will also share information about his group\u2019s important environmental work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four champions of Florida\u2019s environment will be part of an Orlando Sentinel discussion Thursday evening to discuss key&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[53370,114,266,115,139,141,140,53371,109],"class_list":["post-270849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-flashbacks","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-orlando-sentinel-150","tag-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}