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Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project (ASAP) helps local farms thrive, links farmers to markets and supporters,
and builds healthy communities through connections to local food. Over the last decade, ASAP has spearheaded a Local Food Campaign throughout the Southern Appalachian region in making those connections. Search the online Local Food Guide at buyappalachian.org
Dogwood Alliance is the only organization in the South holding corporations accountable for the impact of their industrial forestry practices on our forests and communities. Through a combination of persistent grassroots pressure and skillful negotiation, we achieve the results necessary to create real and lasting protection for Southern forests.
"Green Opportunities (GO) is an Asheville-based, community-based
development organization dedicated to improving lives, communities and
the health of the planet through innovative green collar job training
and placement programs."
Riverlink is a regional non-profit spearheading the economic and environmental revitalization of the French Broad River and its tributaries as a place to live, work and play. Since 1987 we have engaged in simultaneous efforts to address water quality concerns throughout the French Broad River basin, expand public opportunities for access and recreation, and spearhead the economic revitalization of Asheville's dilapidated riverfront district.
The mission of the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy (a land trust) is to conserve the unique plant and animal habitat, clean water, local farmland, Appalachian heritage, and scenic beauty of the mountains of North Carolina and east Tennessee for the benefit of present and future generations. We achieve this by forging and maintaining conservation relationships with landowners and public agencies, owning and managing land, and working with communities to accomplish their conservation objectives.
Transition Asheville is a grass-roots, citizen-based movement bringing together the head, heart & hands of our community to lower dependency on fossil fuels, to deal with local effects of climate change, and to teach skills needed for future challenges.
We intend for Asheville and the surrounding region to relocalize and thrive! We work through educational public programs, project support, encouraging communication, and promoting neighborliness.
Wild South inspires people to enjoy, value and to protect the wild character and natural legacy of the South. We protect biodiversity and public lands using sound science, the power of the law and public participation to inform decisions on how our public lands are managed. Wild South inspires people to both get out and enjoy their public lands and to protect them from threats that undermine the long-term viability of our forests, waterways, and wildlife.
For 26 years Clean Water for North Carolina (CWFNC), a statewide environmental justice nonprofit, has been “promoting clean, safe water and environments and empowered, just communities for all North Carolinians through community organizing, education, advocacy and technical assistance.” Current 2011 campaigns include: water privatization, water justice “Listening Canvass,” NC SAVE$ energy, well user protection, a Clean Pigeon River, hydraulic fracturing and water rights workshops.
Bountiful Cities Project creates beautiful community spaces on urban land that produce food in abundance and foster a learning environment for social justice and sustainability.
Local Exchange Trading Systems (LETS) break through the limitations of money to unlock the true wealth of community! Asheville LETS facilitates indirect trading and skill exchange. By providing services to someone in the network, individuals earn LETS credits to exchange with any other member. There is no interest charged – credits are issued by the community to benefit its members, not by a bank to make a profit.
Since 1892, the Sierra Club has been working to protect communities, wild places, and the planet itself and is the oldest, largest, and most influential US grassroots environmental organization. The Western North Carolina (WENOCA) Group meets at 7p monthly on the first Wednesday in Asheville (Unitarian Church, 1 Edwin Place).
Founded in 1982, the Western North Carolina Alliance (WNCA) is the region’s oldest environmental advocacy organization and the only one focused solely on the mountains, rivers, and forests of Western North Carolina. Our mission is to empower citizens to be advocates for livable communities and the natural environment of WNC, and we work at the local, regional, and state levels. Our program areas are citizen empowerment/organizing, public lands protection, land use/growth management, and water/French Broad Riverkeeper.
