A low-key day that needs a little more love than it gets, even now….. World Environment Day

This place we live in is all we have, let’s be good to it.

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We encourage you to help if you are in the area! Saturday, April 26th

The Swain County Chamber of Commerce is asking the community to lend a hand and join us for the first ever Swain County Clean & Green Litter Project. This event will take place Saturday, April 26th from 2:00-5:00pm. Volunteers are asked to meet at Riverside Park in Read the rest of this entry »

Americans produce enough trash every year to fill a line of garbage trucks that would stretch from the Earth half-way to the moon. With Earth Day approaching LitterProject.com and Carbonfund.org are asking for your help to turn litter — and properly disposed rubbish — into local, renewable fuel sources.

Methane landfill biodigesters like the ones Read the rest of this entry »

1) be willing to do the activity alone, and enjoy it

2) make the time, place and duration explicitly clear to everyone you tell about it

3) INVITE people. Don’t coerce, try to sell it to them, or overly control their participation. When invited, most people will bring something to the clean up effort that really makes really work.

4) keep it simple. Cleaning up trash is easy. All you need are garbage bags, places to put the trash, and gloves (rakes and shovels can’t hurt either!) Tell potential participants that these are the raw materials, but bring enough Read the rest of this entry »