Green Monday 6

Sustainability: Farms, Forests, and Land

May 11, 2009

“How can we make our farms, forests, and land more sustainable?”

“What is the relationship between our natural environment and our urban communities?”

“Which changes to the built environment have a negative impact on the ability of our land to produce, and how can we grow and gather more from our land without destroying it?”

Panelists

John Ager, Owner Hickory Nut Gap Farm

Linda Giltz, Regional Land Use Planner, Land-of-Sky Regional Council

Leah Mathews, Associate Professor of Economics, University of North Carolina, Asheville

Joe-Ann McCoy, Director, Germplasm Repository, Bent Creek Institute

Presentations

Linda Giltz

Leah Mathews

Videos

Videographer/Editor: Charles Elmer of Wumedia, Charles@wumedia.net / http://wumedia.net/index.html.

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