Coal Ash Stories Movie Night

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NOV. 10, 7 – 8:30 PM:
Join Working Films, Haw River Assembly, Cape Fear River Watch, and Abundance NC for a free community screening event of Coal Ash Stories, followed by discussion with Cape Fear Riverkeeper, Kemp Burdette and Elaine Chiosso of the Haw River Assembly. Coal Ash Stories includes four short films that illustrate the public health concerns, policy issues, and ways communities are responding. The purpose of the program is to educate residents on the local concerns and draw attention to the toxic impact of coal ash on their nearby communities…
Winter Pecha Kucha Night 2014

A Quarterly Storytelling Event
JAN 6, 2014, 6 – 8:30 PM:
Pecha Kucha brings people together to present and discuss new ideas around sustainability topics. Presenters each have 20 slides and 20 seconds per slide to discuss. Slides are automatically timed to be exactly 20 seconds with the total time for each presenter is 6 minutes and 40 seconds. This keeps the pace fun & exciting…
Fall Pecha Kucha Night 2014

A Quarterly Storytelling Event
NOV. 25, 6 – 8:30 PM:
Pecha Kucha brings people together to present and discuss new ideas around sustainability topics. Presenters each have 20 slides and 20 seconds per slide to discuss. Slides are automatically timed to be exactly 20 seconds with the total time for each presenter is 6 minutes and 40 seconds. This keeps the pace fun & exciting…
Why on Earth do we do this to ourselves?

Every year, sometime around mid-August, I bolt up in bed in the middle of the night, and in a sweat, I wake my husband up and gasp, “We can’t possibly put on […]
Keyhole Garden Build & Feast

A DIY Sustainability Workshop
with DEB TOLMAN • SEPT. 20, 2 PM – 7 PM:
The keyhole garden provides a self fertilizing, self watering walled compressed garden that can produce year round. It’s like a 7 foot wide walled pie with a keyhole notch on one side for you to stand and poke in your kitchen scraps and “lasagna” greens and browns to maintain the composting nutrients.
Honeybee hives coming to Durham with new project

At Abundance NC, we are all about cultivating community resilience — fostering and supporting projects and movements that strengthen our community’s ability to provide for our own needs and to […]
Why so spicy? The science of peppers

The peppers that will be showcased at this year’s Amazing Pepper Festival are delicious and colorful members of the nightshade family, Solanaceae. Without this family, today’s garden would be sadly […]
Why the new look? Journey to a new website

When we first got started as a nonprofit, we called ourselves The Abundance Foundation, because we believed, and still do believe, in the theory of abundance – that there is […]
Keyhole Garden Build & Feast

A DIY Sustainability Workshop
with DEB TOLMAN • SEPT. 20, 2 PM – 7 PM:
The keyhole garden provides a self fertilizing, self watering walled compressed garden that can produce year round. It’s like a 7 foot wide walled pie with a keyhole notch on one side for you to stand and poke in your kitchen scraps and “lasagna” greens and browns to maintain the composting nutrients.