2023 Cary Environmental Symposium

A to Z Pharmacy

I'm Kristen, and I opened A to Z Pharmacy in 2019 to help give my community they healthcare they deserve. My staff and I do our best every day to treat our patients like family. We know their names and stories; we know their preferences. We go out of our way to make sure our patients get the very best advice and service.

Our patients have been pleasantly surprised with how much money they have saved by switching to A to Z Pharmacy. I keep our prices low because I'm not trying to buy a corporate jet or make a giant bonus at the end of the year. I'm a mom just trying to survive among the corporate giants.

Come visit A to Z Pharmacy, located conveniently at the corner of Old Apex Road and W. Chatham Street in Cary. You will be pleasantly surprised by our helpful, friendly approach to your medication needs.

Abbey Road Tavern & Grill

Abbey Road is located at W. Chatham and Old Apex. We have delicious food. We're dog-friendly. Some nights we have live music. There's a Trivia Contest every Thursday.

American Legion Post 67

The American Legion was chartered by Congress in 1919 as a patriotic veterans organization. Focusing on service to veterans, active-duty members, and America’s communities, the Legion evolved from a group of war-weary World War I veterans into one of the most influential nonprofit groups in the United States. Membership swiftly grew to over 1 million, and local posts sprang up across the country. Today, membership stands at nearly 2 million in more than 13,000 posts worldwide.

Over the years, the Legion has influenced considerable social change in America, won hundreds of benefits for veterans, and produced many important programs for children and youth.

Carolina Wetlands Association

The Association is a non-partisan, science-based organization advocating for wetlands in the Carolinas.

Cary, NC Frugal Urban Gardeners for the Environment

The Cary, NC based group Cary Urban Gardeners for the Environment was founded by Mary Collins in 2018 as a forum for local gardeners who have the environment top of mind in their home gardens. We now have over 600 members, and there are no fees or requirements to join, except being interested and open to conservation and planting of native plants, and learning ways to have a home landscape and garden that is also sustainable. With so many great gardening groups out there, we have a niche that is aligned with this symposium. We periodically have tours and gatherings at local gardens that share our focus on a healthy environment, always free of charge. C-FUGE can be found here.

Mary has used the page to set up garden tours and promote other organizations that encourage urban gardening that restores and enhances our environment. The majority of page members live in Cary, but some members outside the Town also add expertise to the group.

Cary Tree Archive

The Cary Tree Archive is an ecosystem restoration. It is transforming eight acres of HOA-owned land from a field of aggressive grass and weeds to a forest populated with native Old Growth tree species. The Archive includes a native pollinator garden, a re-creation of a Longleaf pine savanna, a Food Forest that includes a mushroom pit, and two rock gardens are under construction. All planting and maintenance has been done by more than 800 citizen volunteers. It is the most ambitious land-restoration project in the Piedmont.

Cary Woman's Club

The Cary Woman’s Club is a 501(c)(3) charitable and service organization with its volunteers dedicated to community services and improvement. The mission of the Club is to promote the civic, cultural, social and educational advancement of Cary, North Carolina, and to provide service to our community.

The Cary Woman’s Club is a member club of the General Federation of Women’s Club, an international women’s organization founded in 1890 which is dedicated to community improvement by enhancing the lives of others through volunteer service.

As a member of the General Federation of Women’s Club, the Cary Woman’s Club focuses on community service programs in the following areas: Arts and Culture, Civic Engagement and Outreach, Education and Libraries, Environment, and Health and Wellness. Over the years, the Club has provided support to many non-profit organizations in the Cary area and beyond, as well as providing scholarships to high school seniors and to mature women.

Curl Up and Dye

At Curl Up & Dye in Cary, we integrate beauty, health and wellness into daily living while being committed with AVEDA to preserve and improve our environment. Our goal at Curl Up & Dye is to provide a personalized style for each individual, in a fun relaxing atmosphere. We use Aveda products because we believe in their products and company philosophy.

Friends of the Homegrown National Park.

A very generous anonymous donation was given for the purpose of supporting Professor Tallamy's expenses related to the 2023 Cary Environmental Symposium.

Gamers Nexus

GamersNexus strives to provide accurate reviews of consumer electronics and computer hardware. Our goal is to protect consumers while offering independent and useful data for PC building enthusiasts.

GamersNexus contributes to many local green initiatives and hopes to buy and protect land within its community for use as future wildlife habitats and parks.

Innatrix, Inc.

Innatrix is an agricultural biotechnology company developing sustainable biological products to control untreatable crop pests and pathogens, to help farmers to increase yield at least 10% with ROI>3. Innatrix has a strong team full of great entrepreneurs and scientists, and several research and commercial partners. We have received U.S. patents to protect our protein evolution technology and RNAi technology. We are well funded by four venture capital funds, one NSF SBIR grant and NC Biotech Center, and found our market fit after interviewing over 160 customers.

Keep the Canopy-Cary

Keep the Canopy, a project of the Stoneybrook Garden Club in Cary, works to maintain or increase our urban forest — informing and reminding citizens about the increasing importance of the large trees with which we have been blessed and advocating for Town policies that treat our tree canopy as essential infrastructure. The organized preservation of existing wooded areas is the best way to do that.

Leaf & Limb

We love our planet. This is why we care for trees. We preserve, plant, and promote trees in a manner that attempts to maximize positive benefits for members of all ecosystems. Our Piedmont Prairies help achieve these outcomes as well. Our hope is to help address pressing environmental issues and restore life on Earth. Though we still have much to discover, we know this for certain: Healthy native trees in abundance create happy people and a more vibrant planet.

Libertarian Party of Wake County

The Libertarian Party of Wake County hosts a weekly Meetup to discuss libertarian principles and current events. Everyone is welcome to come and participate, ask questions, or just listen. Occasionally we schedule speakers or discussions focused on a particular topic, but generally the meetup is more social and free-ranging.

For the latest schedule and special event information, go to our Facebook page.we love our planet. This is why we care for trees. We preserve, plant, and promote trees in a manner that attempts to maximize positive benefits for members of all ecosystems. Our Piedmont Prairies help achieve these outcomes as well. Our hope is to help address pressing environmental issues and restore life on Earth. Though we still have much to discover, we know this for certain: Healthy native trees in abundance create happy people and a more vibrant planet.

NC Chinese Business Association

The North Carolina Chinese Business Association is a non-profit business association for professionals, students, and enterprises with a common interest in China. Our organization provides a forum for networking and entrepreneurial exchange, for advancing business knowledge, and for encouraging and facilitating coaching, mutual assistance and consultation among our members. In addition, NCCBA plays a significant role in facilitating China – North Carolina business relationships.

NC Green Party

The North Carolina Green Party is an anti-racist, pro-women, pro-worker political party that supports gender equality and gender diversity and rejects capitalism in favor of a democratically run economy that responds to the needs of community and planet. We believe positive social and political change will come when progressive and radical people determine that movement activism must also include this critical element: building our own political power outside the confines of the capitalist two-party system. For this reason, the NCGP is a membership-based, dues-paying party and is fundamentally and structurally different from the two major parties—we’re funded by individual working-class members, not corporate interests and the ruling elite.

NC League of Conservation Voters

The NC League of Conservation Voters is the state’s leading pragmatic, nonpartisan voice for our state’s environment.

Members are fighting for clean air, clean water, and clean energy for every North Carolinian. Please join us in that fight now!

NC Native Plant Society, Margaret Reid (Triangle) Chapter

The mission of the North Carolina Native Plant Society is to promote the enjoyment and conservation of North Carolina’s native plants and their habitats through education, protection, cultivation, and advocacy.

The Margaret Reid Chapter serves the Triangle region with field trips and presentations, public outreach, native habitat and garden stewardship, plant swaps, and opportunities to share and learn with fellow native plant lovers. We welcome you to join us!

P & T's Native Plants

We are two people who love plants! This is a local-only operation run out of a very small backyard growing area that provides native plants to our nearby communities of Cary, Morrisville, and Apex. Currently we grow herbaceous wildflowers and a few grasses.

Piedmont Wildlife Center

Piedmont Wildlife Center is a non-profit environmental organization encouraging conservation and inspiring people to build lifelong connections with nature through immersive outdoor education, citizen science, and wildlife stewardship.

Project Pando

Our hope is to help create free access to an endless supply of native trees to anybody and to any organization who wants or needs them. Our current focus is building a volunteer-driven tree nursery based in Raleigh that grows native trees from wild seeds to give to the public for free. We support this work with research, education, and events that help further our mission. We are creating a network of chapters so that other communities can replicate and improve on the work we are doing.

Scenic North Carolina

The mission of Scenic NC is to protect and sustain the natural scenic beauty of North Carolina by preserving and enhancing the natural and built environment through public policy, education, and community engagement.

Scenic NC is overseen by an all-volunteer Board. Board members live all across the state of North Carolina and bring a diverse background of preservation, conservation, government work and community engagement. Contact us at scenicncarolina@gmail.com for more information.

Toward Zero Waste

Toward Zero Waste North Carolina is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that envisions a state free of unnecessary waste, where individuals, families, businesses, and local governments are mindful of the resources they use, the waste they create, and emissions they produce; where reuse, refill, repair, composting, renewable energy, and zeroing emissions are the norm. We see a North Carolina where Zero Waste is no longer a concept, but the culture of our community!

Trees for the Triangle, Inc.

The goal of Trees for the Triangle is to improve the environmental, aesthetic, and economic well-being of the Triangle – one tree at a time – until we reach our goal of planting 50,000 trees by 2050.

VFW Post 7383

The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States is a nonprofit veterans service organization comprised of eligible veterans and military service members from the active, guard and reserve forces.

We trace our roots back to 1899 when veterans of the Spanish-American War (1898) and the Philippine Insurrection (1899-1902) founded local organizations to secure rights and benefits for their service. Many arrived home wounded or sick. There was no medical care or veterans' pension for them, and they were left to care for themselves.

In their misery, some of these veterans banded together and formed organizations that would eventually band together and become known as the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States. After chapters were formed in Ohio, Colorado and Pennsylvania, the movement quickly gained momentum. Today, membership stands at more than 1.5 million members of the VFW and its Auxiliary.

Wake Audubon

Wake Audubon is a chapter of Audubon NC and of the National Audubon Society. Located in Wake County, North Carolina, we have a membership of about 1,500 and hold monthly meetings, field trips, bird walks and other activities.