Middle & high school youth groups are invited to join Asheville Youth Mission and Creation Care Alliance for an afternoon of service and discussion. We’ll work with a variety of local agencies and talk with community leaders about how our beliefs impact the way we care for our neighbors and our planet.
We who are MountainTrue have much to celebrate this year - we hope you will join us and come out to the 2017 Fall Gathering - see you there!
The French Broad Riverkeeper and MountainTrue are combating sediment erosion in our local waterways. We are helping to reduce the amount of sediment that flows into our rivers by planting live-stakes along eroding riverbanks.
MountainTrue is excited to co-host John Frey, Senior Technologist and Sustainability Strategist with Hewlett Packard Enterprises, as the special guest presenter at 1 Million Cups Asheville on Wednesday March 21st. John comes to Asheville as a keynote speaker for ClimateCon and this is the public's chance to hear from this dynamic speaker. Don't miss it!
The Creation Care Alliance of Western North Carolina, a program of MountainTrue, invites you to join us for a vigil celebrating God’s creation and calling on people of faith to care for it.
As we look ahead to the release of a new forest management plan for the Pisgah and Nantahala National Forests and also a design plan for the I-26 Connector Project, we hope you'll stand with us to ensure these plans keep our forest and urban communities resilient and sustainable for the future! This event is free to all MountainTrue members and all are welcome to contribute $30 to become a member and join us for the event.
Toward Zero Waste Asheville, NC, Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church, and Creation Care Alliance of Western North Carolina is happy to present "Straws", a short documentary narrated by Academy-award winning actor Tim Robbins. "Straws" charts the history of straws and reveals our culture’s current obsession with single-use conveniences. Throughout the documentary, marine researchers, citizen activists, and business owners […]
Solar 101 for Faith Communities. Learn from experts, congregational leaders, the Director of NC Interfaith Power and Light, and community leaders as we explore ways for faith communities to unleash the power of the sun. We will be coming together to share light food, compassion and ideas and learn about creation care work. If you are connected to a faith community, a green team or creation care team member, clergy, or are interested in learning more about creation care in Western North Carolina this meeting is for you!
Are trees social beings? What does science tell us about how they interact? How does this change the way we interact with them? Join us as delve deep into these questions and discover the unexpected complexity of forest communities as we read the international bestseller, The Hidden Life Of Trees by forester & author Perter Wohlleben. In this 6-week book study, MountainTrue and the Creation Care Alliance will explore the forest communities of Wohlleben's book and bring in local experts to expand our knowledge of forests here in WNC.
Join the Creation Care Alliance and MountainTrue as we share the Climate Interactive’s World Climate Role Playing Experience in collaboration with theCollider’s Climate City Expo Faith Track. This will be an interactive experience that explores global poverty, power, politics and spirituality. This role-playing activity provides participants with an intimate and interactive experience with U.N. Climate negotiations by allowing them to take on the role of various stakeholders and try and address the most pressing climate-related issues we face today. Learn more about World Climate here. Light food and beverages will be provided. You can see a short video of the basis for this experience here.
https://www.climateinteractive.org/programs/world-climate/
