Thursday, Feb 20th - Tonight's Duke Rate Hike Hearing Canceled Due to Weather
February 20, 2020
The Duke rate hike hearing that was scheduled for tonight has been canceled due to weather. No rescheduled date has been given at this time.
WENOCA Needs Your Help For Buncombe Primary Elections!
February 8, 2020
March 3rd is the primary for both presidential as well as state & local candidates in North Carolina. February 13th - 29th is early voting and just as important. While the Sierra Club has not endorsed in the...
February Program - Preserving A Picturesque America - French Broad. Feb 6th at 7:00pm
January 13, 2020
Preserving A Picturesque America (P.A.P.A.) is an organization that seeks and revisits sites depicted in the book, “Picturesque America". These places were painted by adventure artists in the late 1800's and were influential in the early...
January Program - Gorges State Park at 20: How it was Saved - Jan 9th at 7:00pm. Click for more information.
December 12, 2019
Beautiful Gorges State Park near Cashiers was narrowly spared from hydroelectric projects planned to create pumped storage for use by Duke Energy. Bill Thomas, former Chair of the North Carolina Chapter of Sierra Club, is widely credited with...
December Program -Holiday Party and Recognition Awards - Dec. 5 at 7pm
November 25, 2019
All are warmly invited to Western North Carolina Sierra Club’s 10th Annual Holiday Party and Recognition Awards at 6:30 PM on Thursday, December 5 at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville. Last year about 80 folks ate,...
November Program - Climate Reality and What You Can Do About It – Nov. 7 at 7pm
October 13, 2019
Brad Rouse, executive director of Asheville’s Energy Savers Network, will present the Climate Reality Project, an organization founded by Al Gore with the mission to build a mass movement of concerned climate activists. Brad first attended the...
October Program - Bird Migration of America and Europe with Simon Thompson - October 3rd, 7pm
September 9, 2019
Join Sierra Club of Western North Carolina (WENOCA) and Simon Thompson for a program on bird migration and climate change, Thursday, Oct 3 at 7 pm at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place.
The climate change we are...
September Program - City & County Efforts to Fight Climate Change - Sept 5th, 7pm
September 4, 2019
On Sept. 5, the Sierra Cub presents Brownie Newman, chair of the Buncombe County Commission, and Asheville City Councilwoman Julie Mayfield, who will discuss the city and the council’s plans to combat climate change.This event is free and open to...
Help Protect our National Forests at our next Program Meeting
July 23, 2019
Trump Administration Attacks the "Public and "Public Lands"
Join us before our next Program on August 1st, we will have a comment writing session to the US Forest Service with Sam Evans from the Southern Environmental Law Center, who will explain...
August Program - Hiking the Rim of the Swannanoa Valley: “Eastern America’s Highest and Most Historic Skyline,” August 1st - 7pm
July 15, 2019
Mary and Joe Standaert will present an overview of the important historical aspects of the Swannanoa Valley and its natural features as covered by the Swannanoa Valley Museum’s Rim Explorer hike sections. The presentation will include historic...