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Five work groups are responsible for analyzing detailed information on the Impact Focus Areas and reporting key findings to the full commission.

The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and the National Park Service signed an agreement restoring tribal members’ right to harvest sochan in the park.

"In July 2020, the Asheville City Council passed a resolution supporting community reparations for Black Asheville..."

A documentary film about the life of Fred Chappell (1936-2024), produced by UNC Greensboro Media Studies professor Michael Frierson

“The Wilma Dykeman WIR program represents the rare gift of time and space, something that is difficult to sustain in my life in San Francisco."

"When we see and conceive of ourselves as a part of those ongoing processes, we identify with the totality..."

"The masses of our people still have bad housing, bad schooling, and inferior jobs..."

"I was in a house last night that was bombed - my own."

"Plenty of pollinators overwinter in our yards, gardens and fields, using plants and debris that are left behind."

"The bald eagle is an Endangered Species Act success story."

“Wilma’s companions were flowering dogwoods, twinkling fireflies, tumbling streams. In nature, she was never alone.”

"I'm going to share five tips. Five things I want to see my White friends do."

Todd's simple question to himself, "Why aren't there more successful Black businessmen in Asheville, North Carolina?" led to his making this film.

"Our programs include supporting black artists, publishing black voices, and working in white space to educate about passive and active racism."

“The city of Asheville and NCDOT will continue to coordinate on the design and ultimate construction of the greenway [extension]."

"Don't run off: Be a Part of the Solution."

"The sheer volume and velocity of rain runoff is the biggest threat today to the health of the French Broad River watershed."

"What carries us all are the relationships we've been privileged to build with wounded veterans willing to write and share their remarkable stories."

"Each of them has found an ability to articulate memories, losses, and triumphs in their own unique voice."

It didn't take Veterans Administration physician Bruce Kelly long to "realize how many veterans in my care were still carrying wounds from service."

"Tell us what Environmental Justice means to you."

"'I will not utter my brother's name in front of this monster, and thus I say only that we must try to get rid of it.'"

"About one month had already gone by since Gregor's transformation..."

A history of discriminatory practices has contributed to inequities in education, which are intertwined with disparities in wealth, income, & housing.

Since the onset of the agricultural and industrial revolutions, environmental “justice” is often meted out by powerful people to disastrous effect.

"It is difficult to know if the states' efforts to improve the quality of child care are working."

"American Indians and Alaska Natives continue to rank near the bottom of all Americans in terms of health, education, and employment."

"One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug."

"Community health and economic risks require policy interventions."

"Sources of pollution are not a mystery."

"Stream health is generally good."

Upon waking next morning about daylight, I found Queequeg’s arm thrown over me in the most loving and affectionate manner.

"The French Broad River is generally unsafe for swimming and other primary recreation."

Alice is once again approached by the White Rabbit, but finds herself once again changed after having a drink.

"And Allen was integrated in a way I had never seen before."

By 1972, more than three-quarters of Allen High School graduates attended four-year colleges.

"It is a full circle and a dream come true to return to my stomping grounds with the soul purpose of creating, writing..."

"I really feel quite adult in many of my ideas and beliefs. I truly feel I have a firmer basic moral and spiritual stronghold than any of the girls."

"I see little of more importance to the future of our country and our civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist."

And they went to every race they could get to in Asheville. Those were illegal races. That big long straightaway in front of where Sam's Club is now..

"She had so many mouths she had to support that she stood down there and thought about throwing Peggy in the creek."

M signified Mulatto. The word "mulatto," while never precise, most often connoted a White father and Black mother.

"Saturday is the big Homecoming Celebration for the football team, and we play Minnesota, which will probably be the toughest game of the year..."

"I know that you're being taken good care of now, and if you will enjoy yourself, and not worry about filthy lucre, everything will be hunky dorey."

Water-related risks and disasters...result in immense and growing human and economic losses globally.

Non-point source (diffuse) pollution from agriculture - notably nutrients - is a major problem worldwide. It is also one of the most amenable to NBS.

"An estimated 3.6 billion people (nearly half the global population) live in areas that are potentially water-scarce at least one month per year."

Charles Fischer - High School English - Charlottesville VA

Rachel Reaves - Erwin Middle School - Asheville NC

Aeryalle Coward - Pamlico County High School - Bayboro NC

Water resource management remains dependent on human-built ('grey') infrastructure. Nature-based solutions support green growth or the green economy.

The three planetary crises of (1) climate change, (2) nature (biodiversity) loss, and (3) pollution are central to the UN's environmental strategy.

"Nearly 99% of banned ozone-depleting substances" have been phased out.

"...and an exasperated whale proposing to spring clean over the craft as in the enormous act of impaling himself upon the three mastheads."

"Everyone had to stay in their place. So that was the Asheville that Matthew Bacoate was born into in 1930."

“We are living in an era where our words are under fire, and...UNC Asheville is [leading] a movement to change the world with our writing."

"Larsen's works are read, discussed, and written about by scholars nationally and globally, and are taught in colleges and universities."

"Are you ready to step on the path to a resilient agriculture? Read on to learn about the 12 things that you can do at home and in your community..."

"There is a growing sense in government, business and civil society worldwide that business as usual is no longer an option when it comes to food."

The heat flowing from Earth’s interior is continually replenished by the decay of naturally occurring radioactive elements and will remain available..

On July 24, 2019, at Wilma Dykeman's childhood home just north of Asheville, North Carolina, her son Jim Stokely discussed Wilma's life and career.

On July 24, 2019, at Wilma Dykeman's childhood home just north of Asheville, North Carolina, her son Jim Stokely discussed Wilma's life and career.

"In this half-darkness, the men began to come from their shelter places and mass in front of the doors of charity. They were of all types..."

What's next is still waiting to be defined. I want to find my own financial security, because honestly, I still feel like I'm in slavery.

When I got out at 31, April 28th, 2018, I came home with a plan this time. I was in Asheville, just out of prison.

From the time my parents lost their house in Shiloh, around the age of seven, until I got out of prison at the age of 31, those are all dark years.

I went to Asheville Middle from 6th to 8th grade. I was a quite, shy kid who had straight A's...Then I went to Asheville High, but I didn't graduate.

There, on an early October afternoon 5 years after the beginning of the Revolution, [occurred] a confrontation that marked a turning point in the war.

"So I looked around, I knew what was around me, and I saw that drug dealers had a lot of respect. They had what I felt like I wanted..."

"I was born May 25th, 1987, here in Asheville, North Carolina, I think at St. Joseph's Hospital. My parents were actual high school sweethearts..."

"I was born into a small, close-knit African American community of the Swannanoa Valley..."

"For me, the work that Wilma Dykeman and her husband did represents an effort to force the Southern region at that time to face itself."

"It was her passion that enabled her to be so productive over the course of her lifetime."

In 2020 about 66% of Washington state’s electricity came from hydropower.

Currently, there are utility-scale wind plants in 41 states that have created more than 100,000 jobs for Americans.

The amount of sunlight that strikes Earth's surface in one hour and a half is enough to handle the entire world's energy consumption for a full year.

"Moving on, I at last came to a dim sort of light not far from the docks, and heard a forlorn creaking in the air..."

"Call me Ishmael. Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse..."

"I was born in a Negro town," wrote Hurston on the first page of her autobiography. "I do not mean by that the black back-side of an average town."

Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison called Zora Neale Hurston "One of the greatest writers of our time," yet she died in a Florida welfare home.

"The Wilma Dykeman Greenway opened with a month of celebrations in 2021 that began on Earth Day and ended on May 20, its namesake's birthday."

"By the 1950s, Asheville's rapid population growth turned the French Broad River into an open cesspool in the form of floating sewage..."

"We set out to measure the economic impact of the French Broad River in Western North Carolina..."

Now on the bank, Alice receives a history lesson from a mouse. Alice's story of her Dinah cat causes all the other animals to run away.

"Poverty that has a white face definitely gives a lie to the whole idea of the American dream, democracy, so we push white poverty into the hills."

Renewable energy generates about 20% of all U.S. electricity, and that percentage continues to grow.

"One of the most interesting and gratifying aspects of this project is observing the absolute joy that these birds experience in their lives..."

"Contemplating the lace-like fabric of streams outspread over the mountains..."

"I find something akin to poetry and religion in the shows of day and night, and in my excursions to fields and woods."

"And that is another thing about this philosophy..."

"The third thing that must be done, in order to make The American Dream a reality..."

On February 5, 1964, Drew University proudly hosted Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as a convocation speaker.

Wilderness areas in the eastern US rank highly in the importance of their watersheds to our drinking water supply.

This 10-minute film from 1946 - made for instruction - plays surprisingly well in 21st century America.

"Curiouser and curiouser!" cried Alice..."now I'm opening out like the largest telescope that ever was!"

Find out how younger generations value wilderness differently from baby boomers.

Cherokee culture thrived for thousands of years in the southeastern United States before European contact.

What are deep preferences and reduced-form preferences?

The caravan was ready to move out. One witness reported that "there was a silence and stillness of the voice that betrayed the sadness of the heart."