Do you recognize this person? If not, you may sooner than you expected. That's because she has an innovative approach to sustainability, and she has created a way to share what she has learned. And it is far-reaching!
This is Michelle Smith, an urban sustainability and permaculture enthusiast whose early commitment to social justice and the environment wound its way into a career in non-profit development. Her program is called "LinkingWaters."
Michelle offers a most attractive whole-systems approach to reclaiming urban water.
This approach also
1. creates green jobs
2. expands growing food in urban neighborhoods
3. protects our amazing French Broad River.
This August at Asheville's Green Drinks, Michelle shares a vision in action,reviews the principals of permaculture design and community cooperation that became a the seed of a privately owned community garden as reported:
"With help from regional experts, Michelle has created a perennial food forest at her downtown Asheville home. Organic to this project is the protection and restoration of Nasty Branch, the urban stream that runs through one of our neighborhoods. The state of this stream led her to develop the LinkingWaters project with her friend, Sherry Ingram and RiverLink."
Want to apply this concept to your neck o' the Urban Food Forest? Let me know what you think!
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JaneAnne, this sounds really interesting, is there a website we can go to??? Thanks.
JaneAnne, this lady is impressive. What a wonderful idea and yes I would love to learn more about it. With the drought here in Texas and the restricted use of water we would or could have trouble with it. I do love the concept. Great stuff!
Deb
Very interesting - and I'm going to do some more research on this now. I have to echo David though and ask if you have a site we can visit?
Hi Y'All...Here's the best connect site I could find with working links...
http://theriverwhisperer.blogspot.com/2011/01/first-linkingwaters-site-almost-ready.html