Sustain Abingdon

10/15/2026

💚 Help Our Neighbors, Help Our Environment! 🌎

BCCR : Brothers For Christ Community Response is collecting donations to furnish a new recovery house, and we have an opportunity to make a difference in two ways!

🏡 Help furnish a home for those in recovery.
♻️ Keep gently used items out of the landfill by giving them a second life.

If you have gently used items you no longer need, or would like to donate new supplies, please consider helping! Requested items include:
🛏️ Bedroom essentials
🧯 Safety supplies
🍽️ Kitchen items
🛁 Bathroom necessities
🧹 Household cleaning supplies

Reuse, repurpose, and donate whenever possible! What may be sitting unused in your home could be exactly what someone else needs to start a new chapter.

💚 Have items to donate? Please contact BCCR directly at 276-356-1036 or 276-494-9560 for details about needed items and donation arrangements.

Thank you for supporting our neighbors, reducing waste, and helping build a more sustainable and compassionate community.

Please share this post to help spread the word!

10/14/2026

Link for today's meeting -

https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/ap/t-59584e83/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fteams.microsoft.com%2Fmeet%2F278614191294348%3Fp%3DeqwLLpUCgLJJffUbLY&data=05%7C02%7C%7C446e6e4fc203430cbb5608df279ee466%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C639273235737449950%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=rCrxa5CtTK6pKLMsnFWiLGkbRyFLWtBd9CLSifGsb7k%3D&reserved=0

Meeting ID: 278 614 191 294 348

10/11/2026

💦 WOLF CREEK STREAM CLEANUP IS COMING!

Two weeks from now, we’re heading out to the Abingdon Muster Grounds for our annual Wolf Creek Stream Cleanup, and we want YOU to join us!

Whether you want to get a little dirty or get really dirty, there’s a place for you. Grab a bucket, bags and gloves and help us clean up the stream and surrounding area. Want to take it up a notch? If you have waders, suit up and jump in!

We provide everything you need to clean up, so all you need to bring is yourself and a willingness to make a difference.

🗓️ Date: Sunday, October 25, 2026
⏰ Time: 2:00-4:00pm
📍 Location: French Moore Blvd. cul-de-sac

🌧️☀️ Rain or shine!

And when the work is done, we’ll celebrate with pizza, a tee shirt and the satisfaction of knowing you made a difference. 🍕👕💚

Bring a friend, bring the family, all are welcome. Come help us make the Wolf Creek Stream a little cleaner!

Upper Tennessee River Roundtable

10/11/2026

10/04/2026

🧤 ANNUAL WOLF CREEK STREAM CLEANUP at the MUSTER GROUNDS! 🧤

📅 Date: Sunday, October 25
⏰ Time: 2:00-4:00pm
📍 Location: French Moore Blvd. cul-de-sac

Bring your family, bring your friends, or just bring yourself. The more the merrier! 🙌 Every helping hand makes a difference.
We’ll provide all the cleanup supplies, so just show up ready to pitch in and have a good time!

And because every cleanup crew deserves a reward… 🍕 FREE PIZZA at the end! Plus, everyone who participates gets a FREE T-shirt! 👕🎉

Come spend some time outside, meet your neighbors, make a difference, and help keep our stream clean and beautiful.

Mark your calendar and join us! We can’t wait to see you there! 🌎💚

Upper Tennessee River Roundtable

09/28/2026

🌱 It’s never too early to start saving seeds! 🌱

SA committee member Kitt McAuliffe and volunteer Tom McMullen are already working hard collecting and saving seeds at Tom’s farm.

Are you preparing?

If you’ve been saving seeds from your garden this year, now is a great time to start gathering, drying, labeling and setting them aside. You never know what treasures you might have to share!

🌱 Save those seeds!
🌱 Share the abundance!
🌱 Help us grow something good in our community!

Continue to follow us for more information on the Randy Smith Seed Swap (in January) and our annual Earth Day celebration (in April). We’ll be passing out seeds for the community to plant and grow. 🌻

08/25/2026

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/video/horizons/2026/08/can-recycling-solve-the-worlds-trash-problem

Reduce, reuse, recycle. It's the mantra heard for decades, but does it work? There’s a lingering cynicism that recycling is a scam, that it doesn’t really help, and it’s more about making us feel good than doing something meaningful. Horizons moderator William Brangham separates fact from fict...

08/12/2026

For those who want to join today's meeting remotely - see below for the link.

https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/229536152090407?p=5JJHuaN0mOrvsRYcUE

Meeting ID: 229 536 152 090 407
Passcode: PH9Dx2o4

08/11/2026

Things That Make You Go Hmmm…

We were sold plastic because it lasts. So why did we start making it disposable? 🤔

Think about how plastic was originally marketed: durable, sturdy, lightweight, convenient, reusable, and long-lasting. It was a material that wouldn't easily break down or wear out.

And then we started using that same incredibly durable material to make things we use once. Plastic shopping bags are a perfect example.

A bag might be used for 10 or 15 minutes. We use it to carry groceries from the store to the car, or takeout from the restaurant home. And then what? It’s tossed.

But here's the irony:
The very quality that made plastic so appealing (hint… its durability) is what makes single-use plastic such a problem. We use it for minutes, but the material can last in the environment for decades or even centuries.

So we have a material designed to last but used for things designed to be thrown away. That's quite a contradiction!

The history of the plastic shopping bag is interesting, too. Plastic bags weren't simply something consumers demanded. As they became available, the plastics industry and retailers promoted them as convenient alternatives to paper bags, and they gradually became part of everyday life.

Today, we're left asking a different question:
If something is made to last, why are we using it for something we only need for a few minutes? Things that make you go hmmm…

Maybe the better solution isn't figuring out how to throw away single-use plastic "better." Maybe it's asking why we need something designed to be used only once in the first place.

🌎 Less waste starts with questioning what we've come to consider normal.

If you're interested in the history of the plastic shopping bag, check out this article from the United Nations Environment Programme:

A rare novelty in the 1970s, plastic shopping bags are now an omnipresent global product, produced at a rate of one trillion a year. They are showing up in the darkest depths of the oceans to the summit of Mount Everest to the polar ice caps – and creating some major environmental challenges.