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All great musicians come from somewhere, who’s to say not from your town?! We’ve learned to buy local, now it’s time to Listen Local and show support for the amazing talent in your own community! So, here’s your excuse to go out and party … because WeAreGreen.tv told you to do so … it’s totally green! Now, not every local act will knock your socks off but you’ll still have fun going out and you just never know when you’ll see magic! Trust me our magic moments have happened in the least expected places and events!
We’ve recently had the pleasure of being introduced to and working with The Enemy Lovers from right here in Asheville, NC. Very sorry about the absence of our online presence but I can assure you it was all in the name of fun! I can’t even tell you what it’s like to see amazing music performed in small intimate venues that feel like private concerts. It’s kinda like you know a secret and you’re savoring every show because soon enough they’ll be playing to sold out arenas and these small shows will be a thing of the past. I remember seeing Dave Matthews Band before anyone knew their name and that memory is crystal clear! So, if you haven’t caught our tweets over the past couple of months here’s our official introduction – meet THE ENEMY LOVERS! Below is there very first music video accompanied by some epic behind the scenes footage from the making of it. Also have a listen to their EP, they’re working on new music now that is something real special … can’t wait to share with ya’ll.
Check out this fun epic behind the scenes B-roll footage that didn’t make it into the actual music video!
Asheville, Economy, Education, Environment, Film, Green Sustainability, Human Health, Nature, Resources, Videos »
How “Manufactured Demand” pushes what we don’t need and destroys what we need most.
Recently I watched the documentary “FLOW (for love of water)” which unexpectedly at the end of less then two hours shifted my outlook on water and made me vow to never drink bottled water again. I think before I thought as long as I recycle the bottle then, it’s an o.k. thing to do. I mean it’s better then drinking high fructose corn syrup, right?! Well for my body yes water is the better choice, for the environment tap water should be the ONLY choice! After watching FLOW, I’m thinking bottled water should just be outlawed all together. This whole bottled water thing not only affects other countries negatively (which we’re kind of pros at) but we’re even destroying our own back yard for this one, gasp! That’s right, Nestle is currently devastating / flat out draining parts of Michigan so that it can pump millions of gallons of water out of the ground to bottle. Then there’s the little tid bit that bottled water is WAY less regulated then tap water and often times more dangerous to drink … and we’re talking seriously dangerous sometimes. So, I’m thinking my palette can withstand the sometimes not so pleasant tap water if it means I’m not contributing to severe devastation of my own country and other countries (ie. earth).
I really think you should watch ‘FLOW’ and come up with your own conclusion. However if you don’t thrive off educational documentaries, I totally understand. So, below is a shorter 8 minute lamens version that you and your 5 year old can understand in under 10 minutes.
If this article is all the time you have then please, just trust me on this … you really, really, really don’t want to drink bottled water unless it’s an absolute emergency! It’s so not cool and I feel pretty bad for not understanding the consequences of my bottled water drinking sooner. If you want natural clean water in your future then you will stop drinking bottled water immediately. For, all my office managers out there it’s up for you to educate your employers on how taboo it is and get a water filter and pitchers instead to serve to clients and employees! You can do it 
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Asheville will join the Twestival Global effort this March 25, partnering with hundreds of cities around the globe to raise money and awareness for Concern Worldwide, an international humanitarian organization dedicated to spreading education and ending extreme poverty.
This event will be held at Club 828, will kick off with family-friendly fun from 5PM-7PM, including free food, non-alcoholic beverages and surprise guests. As the sun goes down, local bands Taylor Martin’s Engine, The Screaming Js, and The Enemy Lovers will tune up and get down for the adult portion of the evening. In true Asheville style, the party will feature a selection of local craft brews, food and much more.
Twestival Global Asheville will be live streaming, so Twestival supporters can connect with their global contemporaries in real time.
Admission is a $15 donation
Tickets may be purchased at http://www.amiando.com/Twestival2010_Asheville
All proceeds go to Concern Worldwide
February 2009′s global event raised more than four times the global city average for charity:water. In September 2009′s Twestival Local event, Asheville raised funds and promoted awareness for local agriculture & farmers and connected more people with locally grown food through the Appalachian Sustainable Agricultural Project.
For more information, visit http://www.asheville.twestival.com
Agriculture, Asheville, Blue Ridge Mountains, Environment, Global Warming, Human Health, News, Resources »
The first video with Steven Colbert gives the current facts with fun sarcasm.
Via iLoveMountains.org (great site!)
Here’s a first hand account by Goldman Prize winner Maria Gunnoe describing first hand the devastation residents are facing.
Mountaintop removal mining study will test Obama’s commitment to science
Just days after the Environmental Protection Agency approved the expansion of a massive mountaintop removal mine in West Virginia, a dozen prominent scientists published a landmark study documenting the severe environmental and human health damage caused by the practice — and called on the government to impose a moratorium.
The findings will test the Obama administration’s stated commitment to basing policy on science instead of politics.Titled “Mountaintop Mining Consequences,“ the study by some of the nation’s leading environmental scientists appeared in the Jan. 8 issue of the journal Science. It takes a broad look at the impacts of the practice, which involves clearing upper-elevation forests, stripping the topsoil, and blasting the rock with explosives to get to the coal below. The resulting waste is pushed into the valleys, burying headwater streams.
The researchers found that mountaintop removal mining operators have destroyed around 500 peaks in West Virginia, Virginia and Kentucky, and about 2,000 miles of streams. They also found that efforts to restore the damaged sites have not prevented metals and other contaminants from moving into waters downstream. The study documents deformities found in young fish in water contaminated by mountaintop removal mine runoff — as well as higher disease and mortality rates in the coal fields’ human residents.
The authors include Emily Bernhardt, a biologist with Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment in Durham, N.C.; Dennis Lemly, U.S. Forest Service research biologist at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C.; plant biologist Peter White of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Michael Hendryx with West Virginia University’s Department of Community Medicine; and William Schlesinger, the former dean of Duke’s Nicholas School who’s now with the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, N.Y.
Visit the National Resources for Defence Council to TAKE ACTION and send a message to Congress.
More First Hand Accounts from Kentucky residents and miners.
Carl Shoupe talks about Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining in Kentucky
