About Asheville's Asheville Greenside Neighborhoods

That handsome smiling lad you see here is Travis Williams. He is an anthropologist specializing in farm stewardship projects, and he's visiting Asheville!

Travis is leading a workshop on how to conduct oral history interviews presented by the Appalachian Foods Storybank, a program of Slow Food Asheville,

This attractive event begins with a potluck lunch and then entertains an introduction to the theory and process of oral history projects.

Oral history is a field that combines the arts and sciences of anthropology, storytelling, journalism, and academic history.

Travis is set to discuss practical concerns, such as equipment and planning, as well as topics of ethics, legalities, and interview etiquette, the rudimentary concepts and procedures that one should know when preparing to get involved with an oral history project.

About the Presenter, Travis Williams. Travis Williams was educated in anthropology at The Evergreen State College in Washington State and has organized several related projects. His most recent project was entitled Stewards: Stories and Perspectives On American Agriculture, in which he interviewed over 160 agriculturalists across the USA, gathering a wide diversity of perspectives on farming, past and present. He was a radio interviewer for several years in Bend, Oregon; other projects include interview-based explorations of the ideas of "community" in Oregon and on "what it means to be foreign" in Indonesia and Australia. For more information, you may visit his website portraitofafarm.blogspot.com.

Heart in the Clouds

Love is like a cotton-ball cloud--soft and promising.
Love is like a knowing smile stretched, without judgment,
across the face of a beloved friend.

You may find love in many places,
but today, my inamorata,
somehow sweetly sculpted
a heart in the clouds
just outside our cabin door,
all the time denying his handiwork
with a twinkle in his eye.

©jA Narrin, Wind-in-the- Feather -~^~ The Spirit Ridge Collection June in Asheville, 2011

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"The concept is simple: Give people the right reasons to take environmental stewardship seriously, along with tools, information, and incentives for action, and they will embrace their responsibility to nature," states, the Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary Program (ACSP) Program Director.

Recent surveys highlight the resultant successes where today, more than two thousand (2,000) golf courses in thirty-six countries participate in the Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary Program! It is all about education and then a certification program that promotes ecologically-sound land management and conservation of natural resources on golf courses.

Desire Examples?

Check out some of the Asheville Area's on the GREENside Neighborhoods such as

Balsam Mountain Preserve. Here you will discover a green golf course( ACSP certified) . It had an environmental assessment including a wildlife inventory, water quality analysis, a check of vegetation, pesticides, water conservation. Here at Balsam Mountain Preserve, ( only 354 homesteads nestled into 4,400 acres) neighbors are thinking on the greenside.

Resources:
balsam mountain preserve: 7 Ways to Recognize and Appreciate an Eco Village - Asheville Style
balsam mountain preserve: Asheville Golf Course Home Owners and 10 Strategies for Water Conservation
balsam mountain preserve: Asheville's Golf Communities Blend Challenge, Satisfaction, and Green Homes

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ASHEVILLE LIVE~ABILITY NEWS 2011

Asheville Greenolina's - Real Estate Journal

Warren Wilson College hosts an annual conference of particular interest to Asheville Live~ability. This is the Mountain Green Conference where professionals convene annually to learn about and discuss "best practices" in sustainable and green construction, real estate, development, planning, and design. http://warren-wilson.edu/blogs/mtngreen/about/

If you are visiting or relocating to Asheville, you may be interested to know that one of the first major hotels in the United States to include a solar water heating system atop its roof, the Hilton Asheville will offers water that, throughout the hotel, including the pool, will be solar heated, will eliminate 25 tons of carbon dioxide per year, the equivalent of planting 7,377 trees. The solar water heating system is just one of the hotel's many environmentally focused features.

More Sustainability Features and Photos.

Read the inspiring story of the saving of one of Asheville's architectural landmarks, Helen's Bridge. "The saving of Helen's Bridge now gives us all the opportunity to walk under the "great arched bridge" and shout up to the bridge and listen for our echo, just as Thomas Wolfe did as a young boy in the early 1900's." http://www.asheville.com/news/helen.html

Addressing the challenges of childhood obesity, healthy aging and workplace wellness UNC Asheville is poised to address these challenges through the N.C. Center for Health and Wellness at UNC Asheville. http://www2.unca.edu/magazine/magazine609/around.html

The Housing Authority of the City of Asheville (HACA) this year contracted with Green Opportunities' (GO) Energy Team to recruit, train and place public housing residents in jobs weatherizing public housing units. In its first four months the GO Energy Team created almost a score of jobs and weatherized approximately 1,200 units of public housing.

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