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Cindy Ann Bowers
Mar 12, 20242 min read
PFAS are baaad...but here is good news!
News about environmental pollution is rarely good these days. The number of chemicals that mankind has made and released into the water,...
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Tom Karvonen
Feb 13, 20242 min read
Green Power for Schools!!
Our solar panels at Trinity are up and doing great! (Images: at RIGHT from our solar panel monitoring portal, Solar Edge, showing...
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Josh Kelly
Jan 31, 20243 min read
It Shouldn’t Take A Lawsuit to Make the Forest Service Comply With Federal Law
A letter to MountainTrue supporters from our Public Lands Field Biologist, Josh Kelly: Pictured above: Part of the Nantahala National...
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Cindy Ann Bowers
Jul 17, 20233 min read
Beyond the grocery bag...
An Australian Foundation declared July to be Plastic Free Month. Questions jump in my mind when I hear this. Why July? Why only one...
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Enrique Sanchez
Jun 23, 20233 min read
Full Moon Night in Itá Porá
For the second time tonight, I wake up. It’s 3:00 am. I have an urge to write, but I am called outside by the howling wind. The winds...
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Enrique Sanchez
Jun 1, 20232 min read
To Till and Keep the Garden
Trinity Presbyterian Church is Certified as a PC(USA) Earth Care Congregation (We're Officially "Certifiable") Hendersonville, NC –...
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Trinity Presbyterian
May 26, 20233 min read
Film Premiere - Nature's Wisdom
July 1, 2023, 7:00 PM at Trinity What happens when storytelling, native wisdom, and nature’s intelligence converge? That’s what a new...
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Cindy Ann Bowers
Apr 19, 20232 min read
Sustainability in the Bathroom
Yikes! I just read an article about how many trees are cut from virgin Canadian boreal forests annually to produce toilet paper. The...
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Cindy Ann Bowers
Feb 9, 20236 min read
Our Great Treasures: National Parks
by Cindy Ann Bowers (and Katie) National Parks are one of the greatest treasures of the United States of America. I’ve had the immense...
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Cindy Ann Bowers
Nov 17, 20223 min read
...As Good As A Feast
Looking for a holiday recipe? “The Accomplisht Cook” written by Robert May in 1660 suggests 39 dishes served over two courses. Only one...
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Cindy Ann Bowers
Oct 19, 20222 min read
Learning to Adapt: Climate Change After 30 Years
By Cindy Ann Bowers This November, our world leaders will gather for COP 27 - UN Climate Change Conference. Obviously, this isn’t the...
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Enrique Sanchez
Oct 9, 20222 min read
ECO-TIPS - TREES
By Enrique Sanchez and The Earth Caring Ministry This is what YOU can do to care more for the trees on earth. These are just the tip of...
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Cindy Ann Bowers
Oct 4, 20223 min read
The Breath From Our Trees
by Cindy Ann Bowers (and Katie!) Celebrating Creation Season in September leaves a tough act to follow with the Earth Care Ministry’s...
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Cindy Ann Bowers
Aug 25, 20224 min read
The joy of creation, experienced on a morning walk
by Cindy Ann Bowers In my mid-thirties, I got a job that was a 30-minute walk from home. I’d been commuting about 25 minutes to the...
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Enrique Sanchez
Aug 16, 20221 min read
It's EASY Being Green!
KICKING THE HABIT: a short story in 4 pictures... by Enrique Sanchez, Katie Cilluffo, and Kermit the Frog We saved four bags from going...
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Katie Breckheimer
Aug 2, 20224 min read
Bye bye, Bag-Monster!
Enrique Sanchez: Bag-Monster has done his/her (why pronouns matter...) job at Trinity. So, today I'll take him down. She'll go...
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Trinity Presbyterian
Jul 27, 20225 min read
What's So Bad About Plastics?
In July, coinciding with the worldwide campaign against plastics, Trinity had an ugly sight in the narthex: the Bag-Monster. The average...
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Cindy Ann Bowers
Jul 12, 20222 min read
Swimming in Plastic
by Cindy Ann Bowers That’s me, Cindy Ann Bowers, in the photo, with a balloon I fished out of the Chesapeake Bay. I hate balloons. I...
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Cindy Ann Bowers
Jun 27, 20222 min read
Is a chicken just a chicken? Or - What is Regenerative Agriculture?
By Cindy Ann Bowers for Earth Caring Ministry What’s a summer picnic without fried chicken? Everyone has to eat, right? How we eat and...
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Trinity Presbyterian
Jun 14, 20222 min read
Is Solar Power Right for Your Church?
by Jane Laping for the Presbytery of WNC God gave us a great ball of fire in the sky that we call the sun. The sun gives us light and...
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