Press release from WNC Climate Action Coalition:
WNC Climate Action Coalition (CAC) of Haywood County is bringing Earth Day home with an online broadcast 5 p.m. Wednesday, April 22, the 50thanniversary of the first Earth Day. Watch the Haywood County program from WNCClimateAction.com.
The theme of Earth Day 2020 is healing nature and our relationship to it, with Native American teachings and practices specially recognized. A Native American Hoop Dance of healing opens and closes the WNC program. Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians (EBCI) leader Elvia Walkingstiick shares her documentary on Cherokee activists at Standing Rock.
Haywood County musicians Darren Nicholson of Balsam Range, Martin Vee and Mike Ogletree, and Bona Fide Band will perform. Another video will teach Appalachian square dancing and show a Waynesville Street Dance.
Other videos show successes such as continuing stream cleanup led by Haywood Waterways Association; the status of the critically endangered Red Wolf; and thriving small farmers.Haywood native Steve Winchester and wife Judy Richter Winchester show how they raise pygmy goats. Reporter Cory Vaillancort describes the mountain tradition of collecting ramps. Brannen Basham of Spriggley’s Beescaping explains how pollinator landscaping protects our food supply and quality of life. The Collective Sustainable Agriculture (CSA) farmers show the quality of local food and quality of life. Steve and Betsy Wall tell how their solar panels were installed by one of several new WNC businesses growing NC’s economy.
NC General Assembly Rep. Joe Sam Queen, Democrat, updates us on cleanup of industrial waste and fracking. Col. Moe Davis, Democratic nominee to the U.S. House, explains the Defense Department’s decades-long climate change projects, crucial to national security.
More information: WNCClimateAction.com/About or wncclimateaction@gmail.com
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