Sustainability: Environment
 
The impact of pollution, climate change due to human activity and the need for sustainability versus using up the earth's resources is on the minds of thinking women and men! We publish information in this section about combating pollution, improving our local and regional environment, finding steps to take to gain political ears about what we would like to see happen to protect and improve our great region.
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Sheville Staff
With the Gulf Coast Oil Spill Fund, the Greater New Orleans Foundation will serve as a conduit between the donor community and our nonprofit partners. We will fund philanthropic dollars back into the effected communities on a short and long-term bases.
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News or Press Release
Asheville -- RiverLink, the non-profit organization that speaks up for the French Broad River and her tributaries, has added another voice - the River Whisperer blog.
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J. Lee Lehman
Pfeiffer,
Dale Allen. Eating
Fossil Fuels : Oil, Food and the Coming Crisis in Agriculture.
Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 2006.
This
book is maddening. For the first few chapters, I couldn't decide what
I though of it. The reason? The book has the look of a manuscript
originally written about 1995. From what I can tell, this is not a
re-release. So then I thought: perhaps the author started the book
some time ago, and then never finished the project at the time. more...
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ASHEVILLE, (March 9, 2010) –The Western North Carolina Alliance (WNCA) has stepped up to assist the Environmental Quality Institute (EQI) in re-establishing services that EQI had made available to citizens of the region for more than 20 years until late last year.
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 Water Pipes: A Looming Environmental Disaster
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Infrastructure - we need it, and almost all levels of government ignore it as much as possible, because it's both expensive to build and maintain. But so much was built a century ago, with repairs that are nothing but bandaids, that the crisis is looming closer.
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Limit Your Exposure To Cell Phone Radiation
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New cell phones in 2010 are loaded with new features. For some models, like Motorola’s Droid, Blackberry Bold 9700, LG Chocolate Touch and HTC Nexus One by Google,
consumers pay a hidden price: exposure to the highest legal levels of
cell phone radiation. You can see for yourself by looking the radiation levels for new 2010 cell phones.
Other new phones emit significantly less radiation.
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The Secret History of the War on Cancer
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Davis, Devra Lee. The Secret History of the War on Cancer. New York: BasicBooks, 2007.
This work presents extremely disturbing information about how virtually all information about the relationship between many synthetic chemicals and cancer have been blocked by both industry and government - leading to the conclusion that we are further behind in our understanding of this situation than researchers were in 1936. Dr. Davis also demonstrates the hypocrisy in which the same kind of experiments which are allowed to "prove" safety are considered inadequate to prove toxicity. Frankly,
this makes
the junk science of the Bush Administration look like a walk in the park.
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J. Lee Lehman
In the November/December 2009 issue, Mother Jones reports on the rebranding of various trash fish to change them from unutilized to trendy fish fashions. What makes a fish a trash fish? Either some unpleasant property, or something else that fishermen for years figured was not worth catching. In our overpopulated times, apparently everything is worth catching. Interestingly, some of these former trash fish have become so popular through rebranding that
now they are endangered from overfishing. But it's up to you as to whether you want to eat them! more...
On the Fairway, New Lessons in Saving Water
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For years, environmentalists have criticizes golf courses as flagrant wasters of water, and polluters of the land. But guess what? Things may have changed - somewhat. Some golf courses have taken the criticism to heart, and found new ways to achieve water savings. Now, they're even teaching some cities how to do more themselves.
J. Lee Lehman
Ecofeminism has been defined by many as the intersection between feminism and deep ecology - and that's true. But we would argue that it goes beyond that. We have instituted this section on ecofeminism at Sheville - because it's time. more...
The Story of Stuff
Sheville Staff
A suggestion from Peggy
hello friends - normally i only send out info about my own work but this little DVD is excellent. ordering it for your local library, school, etc, would be a great way to help ourselves and the planet in our global predicament, all the best, peggy seeger
click here
Greenhouse Gases Footprint
Sheville Staff
So which has the bigger greenhouse footprint: cars, or livestock? Guess what?
It's livestock. Click
here to read the United Nations report
Greenwashing as an Advertising Style
Sheville Staff
The BBC Online has run an interesting opinion piece by Rebecca Swift on greenwashing as an advertising phenomenon. Briefly, her contention is that advertising companies are picking up green themes to sell products that have little or nothing to do with the environment. Click
here to read Rebecca Swift's piece
Sheville Staff
(WNC resources are listed first, with some really great North Carolina and national resources listed at the bottom) – All kinds of information on keeping the planet viable. Listing everything from how to get a green job, to recycling, state and federal agencies doing 'green' work and more! more...
Annelinde Metzner
Evenings, a salt breeze cools the skin.
Pelicans plunge deep, intensely focused. more...
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