The next Hendersonville Green Drinks is on January 14 and the topic is: The Path Toward a Cleaner, Safer, and More Affordable Energy Future Join Joan Walker, Mountain True's Campaign Coordinator, to learn what comes next as Duke Energy applies to the NC Utilities Commission for approval of their revised Western Carolinas Modernization Plan. The […]
On Thursday February 11, Hendersonville Green Drinks welcomes featured speaker Richard Freudenberger, who will present on Sensible Steps to Home Energy Efficiency. Richard is the former research director at Mother Earth News and was publisher of BackHome magazine for 22 years. He is currently the energy and resource manager at Living Web Farms, an organic […]
Author and film producer Justin Rhodes will speak about raising permaculture chickens. Rhodes has taught thousands of folks how to live more sustainable (freedom filled) lives. Learn more at AbundantPermaculture.com What: Stop Working So Hard - Let Chickens Do It Who: Justin Rhodes, author and film producer. Where: Black Bear Coffee Co. 318 N. Main St., Hendersonville, […]
Patrick Hunter, staff attorney in the Asheville office of the Southern Environmental Law Center will speak on SELC’s work, including his focus projects of protecting our southern forests and the local coal ash clean-up. What: The Work of the Southern Environmental Law Center Who: Patrick Hunter, staff attorney in the Asheville office of the Southern Environmental […]
Join MountainTrue’s Joan Walker and Sierra Club's Ken Brame for an update about the 2016 political season – from WNC legislative races all the way to the Governor’s Mansion, with a stop at the General Assembly along the way, we'll you caught up on what’s happening in Raleigh, what to look for during the March […]
Every month, MountainTrue hosts Green Drinks at Black Bear Coffee and Espresso in downtown Hendersonville. Join us this month for a presentation by Bob Gale, MountainTrue's Ecologist and Public Lands Director. Bob will discuss the threat of invasive plant species, how they spread and choke out native species that are important to the ecological balance and health […]
Hendersonville, N.C. — On Thursday, June 9, Hendersonville Green Drinks welcomes featured speakers Lyuba Zuyeva, Director of the French Broad River Metropolitan Planning Organization, and Tristan Winkler, Senior Transportation Planner with the French Broad River Metropolitan Planning Organization, who will discuss how transportation projects go from concept to funded project. The State of North Carolina […]
About the image: still life depicts Life, Death and Time in this 17th-century painting by Philippe de Champaigne Hendersonville, N.C. — On Thursday, July 14, Hendersonville Green Drinks will address “green burials” with speaker Michele Skeele, death doula, funeral home aid and member of the WNC chapter of the Funeral Consumers Alliance, a national advocacy organization. […]