Regenerative Appalachia: Storytelling And Songs Re-Envision Boone, North Carolina - round electric toothbrush

This is the abbreviation for the performance of the multimedia "ecological Appalachian" theater performed in February.
2017, author Jeff Biggs and singer grandfather ballroom at Appalachian State University in Bunn, North Carolina-
Alexa's creation has risen.
We don't see my grandchildren very often, but we never miss the King's family party in Boone.
Children always want to know how things happen.
How did Boone become the first renewable city in North Carolina?
Of course, there is only one way to answer this question.
When we got back to Boone's house now, we got to the emissions-
The free hydrogen power speed train meets at the train station where the power panel supplies power to the grid.
Kids always want to take a kayak into town along buencreek, or ride a bike along the Green Wave in the city center --
Now our walking center is a car. free.
But I: I think there is only one way to understand our city, which is walking.
Bunn was a vision at first, standing along the stream, and then along a garden, a Cherokee Garden. My great-great-great-
James King's grandfather was an immigrant to alst, and he chose this place;
Standing on the cliff, gazing at the Amphitheater of the valley and sky, the miles of hard woods in the creeks and mountains, boldly imagining a community of adventurers, visionary innovators
Like many pioneers, long before Daniel Boone, he drifted over the ridge from the wartoga Association --
There, they have declared independence on 1772.
Appalachian common sense: when Thomas Payne announced to Philadelphia on 1775 that "we have the ability to start the world again --
We have done it in the mountains of North Carolina.
As the old king has always said, Buen is not unoccupied-a remnant of a garden of displaced persons, which he calls an Indian garden full of beans, pumpkins, corn berries, let him live in the first season.
Dodiskvsi Duyu.
"Pass the beans.
This is the Cherokee country.
Of course, the King's family party is held on the stream.
This is a troublesome stream.
But we are a troubled family.
Grandpa, grandpa, my child yelled at me at my shirt.
At the creek, I played a game with my grandson: What is that? Burdock. What’s that? Chickory!
Let's cook the coffee bar. What’s that? Wine berries. Elder. Plantain. What’s that? Chickweed.
Ah, a gem in our green salad, rich in vitamin C, so the pioneers ate it to keep it from breaking.
Another gift from the locals.
Then there's our water, the Stream:-ma a-wa-ya.
It's strange now: the local fish are back in the creek.
Tonight, it all looks so beautiful, just another beautiful night, hot night, in this quiet place of academia and Appalachian Horace.
Therefore, it is difficult to explain what caused the "big crisis ".
"You see, everyone says it will never happen.
They say the chances of the Mavericks and the Chicago Cubs entering the World Series are similar.
It will never happen.
News reports on climate change are like tourists, and we just acknowledge that;
We try to tolerate the inconvenience they bring to our roads and our lives, but we don't really pay attention to it.
The temperature has risen.
There were constant warnings.
The climate summit in Paris agreed that if the temperature exceeds 1.
5C or 2 degrees Celsius, we will start a series of carbon dioxide and methane emission events that we cannot survive, but we have reached 1 degree Celsius.
It didn't even make headlines in the fall of 2016, five degrees higher.
The drought is coming.
We announced that we could slow climate change.
We call it adaptation.
But what if you're adapting to a failed system?
The drought continued. And lasted. And lasted. The creek—the water.
You must understand the water.
You have to understand our watershed.
We were warned by Cherokee.
An elder asked the question in the 1980 s: is the question whether we are doing the right thing now or wait until the cost has increased by a hundred times.
When a fire occurs, there is no time to argue whether the Ranger did the right thing in terms of protection, whether the Forest was too dense, and why the forest fire in Appalachian increased by 75% in intensity and heat.
The chatter ends when a fire burns your home, and you have two options: you leave the town, or you pick up the pieces to rebuild.
Boone was wasted . . . . . . Before the crisis was confirmed by the disaster, the crisis was never a crisis --
That's what happened when magadur and the big fire hit Boone. It was 2017—
I forgot now. it's okay for a year.
We were slightly distracted by the darkness of Solon entering the White House.
At the beginning, we waited for the town hall to take action.
I mean, come on, we elected these people and fix the world now.
This is your job, not mine.
I mean, I recycled my bottle.
When I remember putting them in my car
I know it's hard to imagine.
But we didn't have roadside recycling and compost in those days.
My wife drove a Prius and we bought the organic one (
Most of the time, well, sometimes, well, at least the first week we can afford).
But we know we're part of the problem.
60% of the electricity grids that burn fossil fuels come from coal.
Drought, retreat of the land, we did not pay attention.
We just want to do less bad things.
You know, sustainable development.
This is a comforting word, not sincere at best, as if the burning pile of wood is sustainable.
We know that nothing is sustainable.
When I told my grandchildren about 2017, they didn't believe me. They mock me.
Grandpa, you burned toxic fossil fuels, even though you know it has a huge health and environmental cost, producing the highest carbon dioxide emissions . . . . . . Do you know there are already 100% renewable energy regions in Germany, Scotland and Denmark?
You imported 90% of the food in Boone?
You can't even eat fish in the river because of mercury and other problems?
Grandma said you ate asparagus from Chile?
And 7 hand-picked tomatoesyear-
Old migrant workers in Mexico?
Yes, yes, but we changed.
Thanks to the great crisis, the great drought and the fire.
Thanks to the Blue Ridge women in the agricultural sector.
We lined up for rations-
You see, the fire destroyed the business Road, the food store.
These women are smiling, just beaming.
They don't need rations.
They brought a box of food from the farm.
The same is true for the other person, the people in the food center and garden in the hotel, and then the App State students arrive with loads.
Then Miriam Alarcon from la tienda came and said, ellos tienen que comer.
I want to be tamales.
We will help with the cooking at the farm cafe.
We will do it for free.
Then Mary of Junaluska said: can I help my garden with a few hands?
I have a lot to share.
Mary smiled at the crowd.
It's time to sit together for dinner and talk about our future.
Like we always do.
You see, the true pioneers know that there has never been any rugged individualists in our part.
Cultivate land together;
A barn raised together;
The well sank together;
All the food and drinks.
There is a table for everyone.
The table is also long.
People brought food.
A food truck came.
The table is across the main street and across the stream.
Boone sits on the same table, locals and newcomers, rich and poor, transplant all the way from Raleigh and Rochester, rock and Brooklyn hippies from Asheville, for a 3-miles long.
Then I heard a voice: it was Laura England, the great environmental justice hero in our town, who stood up with a glass of wine and rang the doorbell to mute the table and said: now is the time for Boone and App State to rethink our way in the climate change era, rethink the way we regenerate our energy, food, land and lifestyle-
In addition to sustainability, we must repair our destruction of the land.
We must begin the process of treatment.
We need to go back to our roots as a garden on the stream.
Act 2: The Lab listened to this beautiful letter written by the lady.
Her sisters.
"Starting today, the fate of our country will begin a new era.
We no longer rely on others to import our products, nor do we suffer the labor and expense of importing all our products from abroad.
From today on, we will rely on ourselves to make a living because there are beautiful streams and forests. ” This town—
Great Garden, will be selfsufficient.
We lived in an agricultural city at that time.
A small circular town with a stream, surrounded by gardens, ducks and dairy products, and surrounded by three --
Diversify farms and livestock. Agropolo—
I saw it in Italy today.
La citta, circondata Dall' domcola, allevamenti, le vacche, le pecore, poi il Huang Zongze.
That's why we spend thousands of dollars and like to travel to Italy. -
This ancient and beautiful harmonious relationship between people, cities and nature.
Oh, look, people hang their clothes out.
Take a picture, Bill.
Look at the buildings made of rocks, stones and wood that lasted for centuries, not drywall years. Walking. Walking.
Eat real food in the open air market.
Oh Agnes, I 've never had so much food and so much wine
I'm still losing my weight.
Who has a problem with this?
Mr. Thomas Edison
Coal tycoon Francis pebodi did it.
The same is true of Wall Street, which provides funds for their coal-fired power plants and factories.
Keep the dirty secrets of coal mines and their cemeteries, and stay away from the world.
Henry Ford also had this problem, and when we took the trailer line to our community, widened the roads, built the suburbs, he built his car, isolate yourself from those who don't look like us and create Petropolis. Petro-towns.
Oil state of mind.
No circle.
This road has become a straight line.
We brought our energy and we spit out the garbage like coal.
We brought our food and goods, we spit out the rubbish and created the landfill.
We have six bags of plastic for every bag of groceries.
We began to cut the grass in the neat square and use pesticides to eliminate the evil weeds.
We forgot where the electricity came from.
Where did our water come from?
Where did our waste go?
We lost circulating metabolism in town. --
In all the cities of our country
But Boone is special.
No other town has such a connection with nature as Boone did.
No other town attracts people from all over the world because of the magic of its natural heritage.
Compared to other towns, Boone has done a lot.
We have made a commitment to environmental protection.
We are committed to 100% renewable energy.
We have left a legacy in environmental action and sustainable development.
We like these mountains, this magical valley, this stream.
We understand the need to check for uncontrolled development.
But, as part of this nature, have we also lost contact with our characters --
It is not just the guardian of the gate, its beautiful photographer;
To realize that human beings do not weave the line of life, we are only one of them.
Have we lost contact with medicinal plants, oak trees, local food and streams?
Of course, we are not the only ones facing this understanding.
In the 1990 s, Germans began to rethink this linear relationship, especially their energy.
They asked a simple question: why don't we produce our own energy, especially electricity?
Of course, there are many reasons in the United States ----
That is to say, a strong lobby for large utilities, oil and coal companies, whose profits depend on subsidized fossil fuels.
However, thanks to the efforts of the Green Party, the Germans passed a feed --
Tariffs are the first seed of energy independence.
The first step back to the eco-city. Feed-in tariff?
The excess energy you produce, you can sell to the grid.
In North Carolina, we kind of understand this as utility giants try to end their solar repurchase and maintain their monopoly.
But that article is already on the wall.
Or the roof.
Solar panels continue to spread across roofs, doctor's offices, churches, parking lots, and the Boone community solar station and the clean energy Boone project, in a revolution of devolution that cannot be stopped.
We can finally beat Duke with our own scattered tenure.
We set benchmarks that were quickly written into the city regulations;
New campus and community buildings must generate 40% of the electricity through energy efficiency and solar energy;
The old buildings will also be renovated.
The Buen residents became sunmen, recognizing that their electricity came from the real cost of coal
In their lives, gas or fracking plants are astronomical, and if we count all the external costs of toxic air and water across the Middle Mountains of Appalachian, the coal mines there overthrew their homes and entered the valley;
Emergency room bill for coal ash;
The consumption of the budget by climate chaos is no longer able to make up for fires and floods;
Natural taxes are imposed on 3rd of the country's most serious contributors to carbon dioxide and methane emissions.
The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stone, but because we learned to live in different ways.
Or as Harvard Ayers, the founder of Appalachian Voice, reminds everyone: energy solutions come up every morning.
So, in order to take the first step, we decided to create an ecological demonstration area based on 100% renewable energy and the highest energy efficiency standard, as a living laboratory for residents, not only imaginable, you can also experience the lifestyle of clean energy.
A decree on the development of net zero energy buildings was adopted and two objectives were adopted: on-
On-site renewable energy, the energy efficiency standard is 70% lower than the EU regional average
Recycling and Composting;
Comprehensive edible landscaping;
Water penetration features surrounded by foodbearing plants.
As a town, we decided to go from town to campus, from oil city to ecological city.
We sent Appalachian.
She came back: Did you know that ten years ago Adelaide, Australia hired a "residential thinker" and then called the town to rethink the use of energy, food, transportation, garbage and urban design, then work on the regeneration city, install solar panels on 120,000 households, and in other communities, create a Lochiel community model of 100% renewable energy?
Do you know that there are 100% renewable energy communities in Denmark and Germany, such as the Wodan district in Fribourg.
60%-last October, dark, dull, cold, miserable, cold, dark, dull Germany received 3rd of its electricity from clean energy
65% of them came from scattered small producers.
Bunn realized that it had an incredible opportunity: the city center was launched as the first ecological zone, as a walking community, along the creek, and its solar energy-
Roads, solar sculptures, green infrastructure and gardens.
All buildings have to be rainwater collected and collected, which saves a lot of money and soon it becomes a national attraction. Once the car-
A free pedestrian area was established, followed by a tram to deal with traffic problems.
Like the warban eco-zone in Fribourg, Germany, residents of the Bunn eco-zone end up concluding that they do not need cars to go to campus, work, markets, dentists, theaters, restaurants and trail heads.
Within three years of living in Woburn, 80% of residents gave up their cars.
But it's not as simple as installing solar panels.
The way of life needs to change.
I must be involved.
Now, I don't want to live in the first eco zone in Boone. It was my wife.
She said, we have something to do for climate change.
Can we wait until the game is over, I think?
This is a big game.
App State is in the top eight of "crazy March.
We can finally beat Duke.
She turned off the TV.
Climate change is not a game, she says. do you know where your electricity comes from?
I said, yes, plug, can you re-open the damn game?
She said, no, until you realize that your juice is from a damn utility, although they get the brownie points for solar credits
Release gas from global warming
Producing methane makes CO2 emissions look cool.
So, there is no game before you leave the grid.
She's not finished.
But there is a problem, she added.
We use less energy.
Load limit, we have to commit capacity-based tariff.
You have to get rid of your electric toothbrush, blender and big screen TV.
This is your new hit average: 2,000 watts per day, she said.
That's all you got.
This was discovered by a group of Swiss.
In order not to let this planet Titanic sink, you can only consume so much. Capito? 2,000 watts.
I said, just out of curiosity, how many watts do I usually use now?
12 KW, she said, so open the window and start breathing fresh air and light.
Of course, the eco-zone must pay more to renovate the house, build more efficient and smaller houses, commit to building green roofs, solar water heaters or renovate some geothermal areas, and energy efficiency measures.
But save it.
However, it is not enough to generate electricity and reduce carbon emissions by itself.
The answer is not just blowing in the wind.
It is also under our feet.
Act 3: FoodSo, we moved into the eco-city.
Some adjustments need to be made.
Energy efficiency means density and walkable communities.
We sold the car.
It's like selling our dogs.
I saw our SUV disappear in the wide driveway near the Tangier Mall and the distance is getting smaller and smaller.
In the cold weather, we learned to walk or ride a bike and liked it.
We had to give up 2,500 square feet of House and lawn. Windows opened.
We have neighbors, many neighbors.
One of Guatemala's neighbors, Javier de Guatemala, is always pestering me to do more in the community garden.
Oye, como amanecio, have you started your foreigner's feather garden?
The foreign professor in Raleigh across the street has already gained 3rd.
His wife always asks for food.
Oye Havel, Thomas huwworth.
This makes Javier turn to me: Aren't you buying huevos?
When you can get your kids to collect them in the chicken house, it's really stupid to buy huevos.
His child taught my child how to use a goat instead of a lawn mower.
My other neighbor, 87-
Lisa, a year old, has been talking about hula hoop dreams.
Those iron rings that can hold a yearRound gardening.
In the hot and sunny Detroit, an urban agricultural decree led to a widespread revival of urban agriculture throughout the year.
In London, thanks to breakthroughs in water ploughing technology and LED lighting technology, organic vegetables are grown in underground air shelters and delivered to restaurants within a few hours.
We created an edible trail from one end of the town to the other, all the way to the campus where anyone can get a full meal by picking.
I prefer Berry trails.
What we know is a healthy community, not a medical community.
We built a farm.
Asie from herbs
Recognizing that the time spent outdoors and in the soil is part of our daily exercise and stress relief --
As important as a gym or yoga.
You see this piece of land in our community garden, my neighbor Sarah told me one day: 10 by 10 can get nutrition for your family for most of the year.
He said you just need to know the story of food --
Like our grandparents.
In the year of the big crisis, we set a local food benchmark: we imported 90% of the food at that time, but in five years we only imported 50% and then only 25%. Now we produce 75% of our food.
But we also know that even if there is a breakthrough, urban agriculture will not feed everyone in our city.
In a reclaimed city like Adelaide, in those days, a diverse half
As a food network that meets local needs, urban farms surround the city.
Through the "zero waste" strategy, 180,000 tons of compost are converted from urban organic waste each year, with 50,000 acres of land nearby dedicated to vegetable and fruit crops.
Again, the circulation function, the circulating metabolism of a city.
These foods enter the central market every day and consume and reuse the waste as compost.
Solar buses deliver goods.
Here is a key point: the regeneration of organic agriculture, including diverse crops and rotations, vegetable coverage, organic compost, and not just the production of food.
As the Rodale Institute recently showed in a study, regenerative organic farming is critical in soil carbon fixing.
Farmers can play a huge role.
Maybe more than anyone.
In terms of soil regeneration and reduction of carbon dioxide emissions.
The carbon reserves in our soil have decreased by 80%.
We need to bring it back to the dusty land.
That makes us crap.
Bunn and App State signed the Zero Waste Ordinance, a great day.
No more landfill sites.
Stop shipping our junk trucks down the hill to other communities.
If the university town in Boulder, Colorado, can promise to reduce waste by 85%, emphasize closure
Recycling production and consumption systems, forced recycling, composting and reuse, we can do the same.
And benefit from it.
Our host, Jenny, said you were feeding food.
In the dormitory, new appointments on campus.
And reduce methane emissions in the process.
It blooms like a garden and unfolds like a recipe.
My other neighbor showed me a row of vegetables that looked like quilts with carrots, peas, beans, bell peppers, potatoes, cabbage and cloves
What he said about Boone sambusa.
Act 4: maybe before we say what kind of recycled city we want, we have to ask: what kind of city do we want? ?
What kind of campus do we want?
What kind of signs do we show the world on the way?
What national champion? Football.
Maybe we can learn from Chinese or New England Patriots to install solar panels in our stadium, solar Brewery Stadium
If there are 40,000 people in the stadium watching overgrown men chase pig skins, maybe we can use this opportunity to generate electricity like Brazil. A kinetic energy board was installed on the football field to convert energy into electric energy.
What do we have to do with the Creek and the forest? Our mountains.
Are we still in the mountains?
Whether this land still determines our way of life and inspires us.
Daniel Boone once wrote: nature is here, a series of miracles, and a fund for happiness.
What can we learn from it?
Do we really live in a small town inspired by explorers like Daniel Boone?
What is our relationship with the community?
Did we recognize Brian as a smolsberg-
All our culture is recognized.
Biodiversity is linked to human diversity, not separated by walls.
Our path was initially shaped by Cherokee and other indigenous peoples.
Banjo is from Africa with Africans;
Like a guitar raised by black railway workers.
African-American guitarist Leslie Riddle from Burnsville collected music for the Carter family and helped launch country music;
Nina Simon from the Western Forest of North Carolina always reminds us that black life is important, young, gifted and beautiful?
How can we restore the roots of our culture to our communities? Culture.
From Latin roots, Correll. Cultivare. Cultivate. Food. Nature. Diversity. Restoration. Regeneration.
By restoring our relationship with nature
Not just in more parks and stadiums, but a deeper commitment to healing and restoring our surroundings --
We also found our sense of place, our sense of community.
Adelaide mainly planted 3 million trees. Great.
It is not only a carbon sink, but also a road map of how we position our lives.
How can we go beyond doing less bad things and really do things that enhance rather than damage our environment.
Create an economy that complements the natural resources we consume.
Like marijuana products, for example.
Provide a new framework and vocabulary for our time
Start the process again.
Start the treatment process.
Instead of just pulling out the plug, climate action first pulls carbon back into the soil.
My grandchildren keep repeating their spells and the soil will save us.
The soil will save us.
Marvel at restoring yourself
Maintain and restore the river-bank ecosystem and thriving creeks.
On the same long table we always carry food with us and we ask ourselves: how can we heal or restore our waterways and neighborhoods, the new apartheid class?
How do we protect our water;
How do we make sure people who can't afford electricity bills, food costs, vector changes
Is the disease caused by climate change the top priority of our plan?
The ecological zones of Buen and App State began to answer some of our questions in Buen today in different ways.
We face some cruel facts.
There will be no real ecological zone without inclusive zoning
Low-income units with higher income
Old community with new community.
Indigenous immigrants.
Urban immigrants. And my people—Are from the countryside
Most importantly, the elderly citizens, who bring so much experience, wisdom, and brazen.
The status of the app can continue the process of creating a recycled campus --
Introduce a compulsory course to each Grade 1 student and simply ask a question: What is your connection with Boone;
Provide the opportunity to live in 100 renewable energy-generated dormitories such as Berea College and receive credits for the campus food planting, compost and soil carbon fixing program;
Finally, realize what their connection with Boone is
Where did their electricity come from, where did their water come from, where did their food come from, and where did their waste go from.
In 2017, during the year of the great crisis, a new opportunity was opened up by the creek.
The president of App State and the mayor of Boone used their house as a permanent cultural and 100 renewable energy showcase, and then cut the ribbon together for the first climate Art Center in the area, this is a place that brings together our heritage of art and Appalachian and hosts public events, workshops and community discussions on how climate action becomes a central priority for "strategic planning" and everyday life.
Like my ancestors in the Garden of India. we had to re-
Imagine yourself.
Regenerate ourselves.
To survive.
To thrive.
We're not just looking into the future,
We nurtured it, ate it, and received comfort from it.
I told my grandson that the regeneration city of Boone and App State did not happen overnight.
It took a long time to say it through the long table.
But every day, new breakthroughs remind us that we need to rethink and recognize that watershed events are turning points.
Instead of delaying the pressing realities and increasing costs of climate change, accept them as opportunities.
How much drought and fire did it go through?
How many billion dollars did we lose before we took action? How many lives?
When we calculate the price of our own death, our own future, and the hope of the next generation, economics loses its meaning.
For my grandson, the best way to learn this, like the crisis of my generation, is to talk to our new neighbors from Mexico, who have left the dry environment, in
Walk on the path of the Cherokee people and see yourself adapting to the challenges of change and creating a restorative society.
As the Mexican poet Octavia Paz once wrote, the past always exists, the spirit of the past --
The people, the land, the stream
If we listen, talk to us.
Then I asked my child the same question, and we asked ourselves in a big crisis: how do you become a catalyst for this regenerative city?
What is my role?
Roles of artists, innovators, engineers, entrepreneurs and retirees?
What is growing in my garden
Can I walk over?
Where did your electricity come from?
This can start with a simple act, like a related school parent who works to get the school to stop using toxic pesticides at school and start using goats.
There are so many examples, but I saw this image in Boone: countless volunteers trying to stop forest fires.
The struggle for resilience ――
But in this case, resilience is a state of loss, surrender, and eventual destruction.
After the great crisis of 2017, we asked the heroes who tried in vain to stop the fire, and now do the same for climate action, in a real and possible way.
Build a new city and a new campus.
So, back to our family party in the Indian Garden.
The grandchildren laughed.
At the creek, I played a game with my grandson: What is that? Burdock. What’s that? Chickory!
Let's cook the coffee bar. What’s that? Wine berries. Elder. Plantain. What’s that? Chickweed.
Ah, a gem in our green salad, rich in vitamin C, so the pioneers ate it to keep it from breaking.
Another gift from the locals.
Then our water, the stream.