Environment: 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.
 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
News or Press Release
Developers on Black Mountain have decided to forego some 300 houses that builders said their 430-acre
property could accommodate, by limiting construction to only 29 home lots on a portion of the parcel. more...
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
"Locavore" is 2007 Word of the Year
News or Press Release
The New Oxford American Dictionary chose locavore, a person who seeks out
locally produced food, as its word of the year. The local foods movement is
gaining momentum as people discover that the best-tasting and most
sustainable choices are foods that are fresh, seasonal, and grown close to
home. Some locavores draw inspiration from the 100-mile diet or from
advocates of local eating like Barbara Kingsolver. Others just follow their
taste buds to farmers' markets, community supported agriculture programs,
and community gardens. Check out Local Harvest to find sustainably grown
food near you, and make a New Year's Resolution to be a locavore in 2008!
Source:
Union of Concerned Scientists FEED – Food & Environment Electronic Digest
- December 2007
Sheville Staff
Big Medicine from Six Nations is celebrated author Ted Williams’ account of his lifelong engagement with traditional wisdom, spiritual knowledge, and his search for higher consciousness among the Six Nations of Iroquois.
According to Deb Louis, reading this book was like going home! How about purchasing it from the Long Branch Environmental Ed Center in Leicester and making it everybody's "Chrismukkah" presents this year!
more...
Joyce Metayer
When asked, “What’s your passion in life?” Joyce Metayer says, without a moment’s hesitation, “Making art and being in nature.” Joyce is an artist who is best known for her Sculptural Archetypes…wall reliefs that are a combination of painting and sculpture, impeccably constructed by sewing, and often circular in format. The look of her work is very contemporary even though she claims it is based on Paleolithic feminine symbology. more...
News or Press Release
A new source of capital for businesses that promote the environmentally
responsible use of natural resources is now available to entrepreneurs in
North Carolina, Virginia and northeast Tennessee. more...
Sheville Staff
It is important for us to continue to find ways in which we can recycle products in order to do our part to help preserves our earth. Below are some tips that might help; try them! If you have some tips to add to the list please send them to shevilleva@sheville.org. Share what you know. more...
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...
Jean Cassidy
The sky’s awash.
A palette of blackbirds, as though dripping,
slides down a cloud. more...
News or Press Release
Thirty years ago, in the country of Kenya, 90% of the forest had been chopped down. Without trees to hold the topsoil in place, the land became like a desert.
When the women and girls would go in search of firewood in order to prepare the meals, they would have to spend hours and hours looking for what few branches remained.
more...
Judith M. Francis, AICP
Having never observed a bald eagle at such close range before, I was stunned by the sheer size of him. Flying into the top of the dying pine, he grasped in his talons a branch as big around as my leg and, beating his wings powerfully, broke it free of the tree as easily as if it were no more than a matchstick. more...
Annelinde Metzner
Evenings, a salt breeze cools the skin.
Pelicans plunge deep, intensely focused. more...
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Developers Turn Down Opportunity to Build Some 250+ Homes to Keep Black Mountain Green
Spectator
What do Trees have to do with Peace?
Soaring With Eagles: The Triumph of Citizenship at Lake James 
What’s Not There