Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Time: 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Location: The Millroom at Asheville Brewing Co.
66 Asheland Ave., Asheville
Cost: Free. Light fare provided, beverages available for purchase.
Please click here to RSVP
Join Brook Lenker from FracTracker Alliance to explore the impacts of oil and natural gas extraction in America and the potential impacts for North Carolina. Learn about the promise and potential of renewable energy in our state. Join a discussion with leaders from national and regional organizations examining these issues. Share your vision for the energy future! Staff from Environment NC and MountainTrue will get you up to date on how you can get involved.
The Free Clinics of Hendersonville’s volunteers help provide free healthcare and services to low-income, uninsured residents, and MountainTrue is seeking volunteers to assist with recycling and composting at the clinics’ 9th Annual Spring Salon Fundraiser from 5-8 p.m. on Friday, April 24.
The event will be at Biz611, at 611 North Church St., in Hendersonville, and will feature delicious food, fine wine tasting, local craft beer, green design, and wonderful conversation in a grand environment.
Join Us!
- Who: Volunteer work day with MountainTrue
- What: Non-Native Invasive Plant Control
- Where: Richmond Hill Park, Asheville, NC
- When: 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, March 14 – (Rain Date: Sunday, March 15)
- Why: To restore native plant communities by controlling non-native invasive plants along a major drainage area that includes special wild plants and a mountain bike trail within Richmond Hill Park
We’ll give instruction on how to identify and control non-native invasive plants of concern in the Park, then we’ll go after these plants!
MountainTrue will provide all gloves and equipment needed for the event.
Volunteers are asked to bring snacks, water, rain jacket and appropriate layers for March weather. Long pants, a long sleeve shirt, and old shoes or hiking boots (no open shoes or sandals) are required, even if it’s a warm day.
To volunteer with us click here.
(Please do not comment below to sign up.)
More information about Richmond Hill Park can be found at www.richmondhillpark.wordpress.com or contact James Wood at Richmondhillforest.gmail.com
MountainTrue’s Southern Regional Office Recycling Committee will host its next meeting at 4:30 p.m. March 18 in our conference room at 611 N. Church St., Hendersonville.
The main presenter will be Ken Allison from the proposed Regional Recycling Solutions Center planned for Asheville.
This should be very informative for anyone who is interested in recycling. His presentation will focus on the new facility, his state of the art sorting machine imported from Germany, and how the facility will affect recycling in WNC.
The presentation will be about 30 minutes.
For more information, call (828) 692-0385.
Join us for a moderate 7-mile Sunday hike along the Green River with MountainTrue’s very own ecologist Bob Gale!
This is a great late winter hike which follows the Green River offering continuous views of its quiet stretches to its most intense rapids. We’ll look for early wildflowers and migrating warblers. Because it lies at lower elevations than more northerly mountain counties, temperatures should be mild and spring vegetation will be farther along. We’ll pass through remnant eastern hemlock stands which have been less affected by the hemlock woolly adelgid insect and offer a glimpse of what all of our 
once thriving hemlock communities looked like 10 years ago. The trail also passes through an interesting boulder area and ends in a boulder-strewn stretch of the river. Here, and along the final mile, we’ll have the exciting treat of seeing of seeing kayakers fighting through several dynamic stretches of rapids. Please wear appropriate shoes and layers, and bring water and a lunch! Carpool available from Earth Fare in the Westgate Shopping Center at 9:00AM.
Date: Sunday, March 22 2015
Time: 10:00AM – 4:30PM
Location: Green River Cove Trail: 3851 Green River Cove Road, Saluda NC
Cost: Free
Registration Deadline: Friday, March 20 at 5:00 PM
REGISTRATION HAS BEEN CLOSED
For more information, please contact Rachel Stevens at rachel@mountaintrue.org or call 828-258-8737 ext. 215
Creation Care Alliance of WNC invites you to join NCIPL and Interfaith Power & Light founder and President Rev. Sally Bingham on March 25 at the General Assembly in Raleigh for the Faith Voices for Clean Energy Advocacy Day. We’ll meet with members of the General Assembly to hear their vision for North Carolina and to express our support for new and existing clean energy policies.
CCAWNC will sponsor a van that can take 15 people to Raleigh at 6:00am in front of All Souls Episcopal Church, 9 Swan Street in Biltmore Village. We’ll return around 8:00pm.
Rev. Sally Bingham,
Date: Wednesday, March 25, Faith Voices for Clean Energy Advocacy Day
Time: 6:00 am-8:00 pm.
Location: General Assembly, Raleigh; transportation provided by CCAWNC
Cost: FREE — but space is limited to 15 for the van ride.
Registration Deadline: 5 p.m. March 23
REGISTER HERE
For more information, please contact Jane Laping at janelaping@sbcglobal.net or call (828) 277-7342.
