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This page contains some of our favorite books, movies, organizations, and more. We hope you find some information here that will take you farther down your green path. Please check back soon as our list is continually evolving.

 
COMMUNITY ACTIVISM

Websites:
Sustainable Asheville
We promote sustainability in our community through education and networking.  We provide opportunities to share insights and creative solutions for living interdependently within our local and global ecosystems.
www.sustainableasheville.com

Firestorm Café
A worker-owned community event space, located at 48 Commerce Street.
www.firestormcafe.com

The Beehive Design Collective
Cross-pollinating the grassroots by creating collaborative, anti-copyright images that can be used as educational and organizing tools.
www.beehivecollective.org

 

CONSTRUCTION

Websites:
The Green Matrix 
The Green Matrix is designed to cross-reference topics of sustainability with the standard phases of project design, thereby illuminating appropriate strategies for a particular phase of work.
www.greenmatrix.net

The Artisan Builders Collective
a natural design build collaborative
www.artisanbuilderscollective.org

WNC Green Building Council  
 Their mission is to promote environmentally sustainable and health conscious building practices through community education.
www.wncgbc.org

 

ECOLOGY

Websites:
Appalachian Voices
Bringing people together to protect our mountain heritage
www.appvoices.org

RiverLink                                                                                                    RiverLink is a regional non-profit spearheading the economic and environmental revitalization of the French Broad River and its tributaries as a place to work, live and play.
www.riverlink.org

Western North Carolina Alliance
Western North Carolina Alliance empowers citizens to be advocates for livable communities and the natural environment of Western North Carolina.
www.wnca.org

 

ENERGY

Websites:
Southern Alliance for Clean Energy  
 A nonprofit organization that promotes responsible energy choices that solve global warming problems and ensure clean, safe and healthy communities throughout the Southeast.
www.cleanenergy.org

 

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

Websites:
Environmental Justice
Web Resources for Environmental Justice Activists
www.ejnet.org

The Center for Health, Environment and Justice
Building healthy communities with social justice, economic well-being, and democratic governance.
www.chej.org

Deep South Center for Environmental Justice
Provides opportunities for communities, scientific researchers, and decision makers to collaborate on programs and projects that promote the rights of all people to be free from environmental harm as it impacts health, jobs, housing, education, and general quality of life.
www.dscej.org

 

FOOD

Websites:
Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project (ASAP)  
ASAP is a non-profit organization that supports farmers and rural communities in the mountains of western North Carolina and the southern Appalachians by providing education, mentoring, promotion, web resources, and community and policy development. Their mission is to create and expand regional community-based and integrated food systems that are locally owned and controlled, environmentally sound, economically viable and health-promoting.
www.asapconnections.org
ASAP Local Food Guide  www.buyappalachian.org

Bountiful Cities Project    
 The mission of the Bountiful Citites Project is to create, on urban land, beautiful community spaces that produce food in abundance and foster a learning environment for social justice and sustainability.
www.bountifulcitiesproject.org

Movies:
King Corn
 A feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation.
www.kingcorn.net

Food, Inc.
How industrial food is making us sicker, fatter, and poorer -- and what you can do about it.
www.foodincmovie.com

The Future of Food
An in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade.
www.thefutureoffood.com

Supersize Me
Directed by Morgan Spurlock.
What happens when you eat only McDonald’s for 30 days?

Books:
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by Eric Schlosser
An exposé of the American fast food industry.

 

NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS

Websites:
Green for All
Green For All is a national organization working to build an inclusive green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty.
www.greenforall.org

Repower America
Join the movement to transition America to a clean energy economy and help solve the climate crisis.
http://www.repoweramerica.org/

Grist
Grist has been dishing out environmental news and commentary with a wry twist since 1999
www.grist.org

YES! magazine
YES! Magazine is an award-winning, ad-free, nonprofit publication that supports people’s active engagement in building a just and sustainable world.
www.yesmagazine.org

POLITICS 

Websites:
Color of Change
ColorOfChange.org exists to strengthen Black America's political voice. Our goal is to empower our members—Black Americans and our allies—to make government more responsive to the concerns of Black Americans and to bring about positive political and social change for everyone.
www.colorofchange.org

Movies:
Life and Debt
A feature-length documentary which addresses the impact of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and current globalization policies on a developing country such as Jamaica.
www.lifeanddebt.org

 

WATER

Websites:
Clean Water for NC
Clean Water for NC has been working with communities since 1984 for better cleanups at Superfund sites, environmental justice, safe and affordable drinking water, polluter accountability, clean air and energy, and more.
www.cwfnc.org

Food and Water Watch
A non-profit organization working with grassroots organizations around the world to create an economically and environmentally viable future. Their mission is to protect our essential resources by transforming the public consciousness about what we eat and drink and by helping people to take action to make a difference.
www.foodandwaterwatch.org

Global Water
Overcoming hunger, disease, and poverty...with water.
www.globalwater.org

Movies:
Black Gold
As westerners revel in designer lattes and cappuccinos, impoverished Ethiopian coffee growers suffer the bitter taste of injustice. One man's fight for a fair price is the story in this eye-opening expose of a multi-billion dollar industry.
www.blackgoldmovie.com

FLOW: For the Love of Water
Irena Salina's award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century - The World Water Crisis.
www.flowthefilm.com

Thirst
Is water a human right or a commodity to be bought and sold in a global marketplace?
www.thirstthemovie.org

Blue Gold
Documents the rise of a rapidly proliferating enterprise enabled by recent international trade agreements: the privatization and commodification of water.
http://www.bluegold-worldwaterwars.com/

Books:
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond 
 by Brad Lancaster
www.harvestingrainwater.com

When the Rivers Run Dry: Water-The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century
by Fred Pearce
http://www.powells.com/biblio/0807085723?&PID=25450