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• Community Links : Sustainability

• Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy - Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy protects our region's natural heritage and quality of life by helping to create a regional network of more than 12,800 acres of protected farm, forest, park and natural lands. Our volunteers are vital to saving the places you love. popular
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• Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project (ASAP) - A Western North Carolina community-based collaborative focused on sustaining farms and rural communities through an integrated action program of farmland protection, sustainable production systems, policy development, and promotion.
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• Asheville Green Drinks - Asheville Green Drinks is a networking party and part of the self-organizing global grassroots movement that connects local communities with environmental ideas, media and action. It's a great time to relax, grab organic drinks and connect with other like-minded people. New topic and crowd each week! When: 5:30-7pm every Wednesday Where: Posana Cafe Buncombe
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• Asheville Greenmap - The Asheville Greenmap will will be a visual guide that identifies places, services, and events that promote sustainable or 'green' living. Buncombe
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• Audubon Society- Elisha Mitchell Chapter - This organization serves to promote an awareness and appreciation of nature, to preserve and protect wildlife and natural ecosystems, and to encourage responsible environmental stewardship.
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• Black Mountains Conservation Project - Renowned for their dramatic natural beauty, the Black Mountains are a treasure trove of biological diversity, cultural richness, and recreational opportunities. Through this effort, the Southern Appalachian Forest Coalition hopes to educate local communities about the ecological importance of this unique biological region.
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• Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League - The Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League is a regional, community-based, nonprofit environmental organization dedicated to earth stewardship, environmental democracy, social justice and community empowerment.
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• Canary Coalition - The Canary Coalition is your family, friends and neighbors getting together to do something about the poor quality of the air we've been breathing in Western North Carolina and Southern Appalachia.
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• Canary Coalition Discussion Group - This list is provided by The Canary Coalition (http://canarycoalition.org). Any person interested in Clean Air may join. It is an open discussion to which any member may reply to as well as listen in. WNC
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• Carolina Farm Stewardship Association Mountains Chapter - CFSA is a nonprofit membership association of farmers, gardeners, and consumers dedicated to ecological farming methods and the development of a healthful, sustainable agriculture. Co-sponsor of Organic Growers School each Spring and sponsor of Family Farm Tour each Summer. Bimonthly potluck get-togethers at a member's farm or garden.
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• Carolina Farm Stewardship Association Mountains Chapter - CFSA's mission is to support and expand local and organic agriculture in the Carolinas by inspiring, educating, and organizing farmers and consumers. CFSA sponsors an annual Sustainable Agriculture Conference. Mountains Chapter serves 16 counties of Western North Carolina, featuring an annual Farm and Garden Tour in the Asheville area. WNC
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• Clean Water for North Carolina - We work for safe, accessible water and clean environments through empowered environmentally just communities. WNC
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• Communities for Sustainable Forestry - Communities for Sustainable Forestry supports intact rural communities, empowers local activists, and promotes sustainable forestry in areas impacted by high capacity satellite chip mills throughout the Appalachian region.
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• Dogwood Alliance - We are a non-profit network of more than sixty grassroots environmental organizations and community groups and individuals working together to defend the native forest ecosystems and communities of the Southeastern United States.
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• Earth Healing Information and Daily Reflections - The main goal of Earth Healing is to offer writings, updated daily, on the topic of environmental stewardship and service. Buncombe
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