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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 When A Fox Skull No Longer Points Home
By Catherine Reid
Sheville Staff
It is the quiet time of year — no leaves, no insects, no nattering of squirrels, no birds asserting claims over small lands and new broods. In these woods, the snow cover is deep, and it contains and subdues most sounds, an absence that has its own weight and against which my snowshoes rattle and shirr. more
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...
News or Press Release
RiverLink is excited to be working with the French Broad River Garden Club Foundation to solicit input on the future uses of Karen Cragnolin Park - a 50 year old junk yard that miraculously won the Founders Fund Award from the National Council of Garden Clubs. more...
The Unforgettable Commencement Address by Paul Hawken
News or Press Release
To the Class of 2009, University of Portland, May 3, 2009:
But let’s begin with the startling part. Hey, Class of 2009: you are going to have to figure out what it means to be a human being on earth at a time when every living system is declining, and the rate of decline is accelerating. Kind of a mind-boggling situation… but not one peer-reviewed paper published in the last thirty years can refute that statement. Basically, the earth needs a new operating system, you are the programmers, and we need it within a few decades. View the entire speech here.
Va Boyle
Have you ever had a conversation with someone effortlessly spins through a myriad of new and great ideas? Robin shared her enthusiasm,boundless energy and wealth of information about sustainability, local community and a collaborative political process.
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On the Fairway, New Lessons in Saving Water
News or Press Release
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.
Dorothy Rogers
Check out the 17 goals of Asheville Hub, a non-profit with a unique and important economic focus. "The Asheville Hub sparks collaborations within and across Buncombe County's technology, sustainability, rejuvenation, creativity, land/agriculture, manufacturing and enterprise clusters so our community may benefit from emerging opportunities.
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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
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...
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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ecology through art: the work of joyce metayer
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