I want to give credit to my favorite Raleigh restaurant, Irregardless Cafe, for the multitude of reasons the place is so delectable. The restaurant, open since 1975 (minus a period after a devastating fire when Arthur chose to rebuild), embodies “the American Dream” of past and present ~ creating a life on your passion, rebounding [...]
During my trips to find out who came to the State Fair and why, I made several observations on the North Carolina State Fair being a bit green, though not consistent.
The choice for fueling the State Fair tram and other mechanisms seems to be Biodiesel, provided by soybeans (which are not necessarily green), and after [...]
This post comes a few days after Mike Easley’s press conference in Fayetteville (or here or here), urging all NC residents to take stronger strides in conserving our ever-lessening water supply amidst (possibly) the worst drought in NC history.
Amidst what is frankly ridiculous waste of water, such as major Triangle universities continuing to regularly water [...]
Our local Durham Foodie reminded me in this post that our coffee habits can say a lot. Buying coffee beans from a local roaster is a first step toward greener living (and this doesn’t just go for coffee~ any locally grown foods are better to buy than processed, overly packaged imported from who-knows-where food).
If you [...]
Becoming green is something I acquired am acquiring more and more. I wasn’t born to “hippies” who live off the grid and wear clothes made of hemp (and I in no way mean anything negative about those ways of life ). I grew up on the edge of the woods on the country outskirts of a growing city. [...]
