Here in the Triangle, the housing market isn’t our biggest financial woe. Energy costs is.
As the price of energy goes up incrementally every day, we are less concerned with foreclosures (though some do face this nightmare, we are significantly lower in foreclosures than the national average) and far more concerned with the cost of going [...]
Welcome to The Carbon-Free Home, where you can recycle your water and end your home’s dependence on oil, all while composting your own poo!
On May 31st, this Saturday, at Common Ground Green Building Center and Kitchen Design (326 W Geer St), the Durham authors will be signing their newly published book, The Carbon-Free Home. The book [...]
This weekend, Chapel Hill is having a rainbarrel event, and Chatham County’s Abundance Foundation is having a Vermiculture Workshop at Pittsboro’s Piedmont Biodiesel.
1. Chapel Hill’s rainbarrel event:
Purchase Discount Rain Barrels at H2Oh! Education Fair
Chapel Hill’s Stormwater Management Division is sponsoring a rain barrel sale and H2Oh! Education Fair on Saturday, April 5, from 9 a.m. [...]
“There’s a lot of ‘green scamming’” said Gary Hirshberg of Stonyfield Farms Organic Yogurt at today’s Footprints Conference 2008, but every company including Walmart and John Deere are claiming their grass is greener.
Live blogging from the conference, I can only regurgitate tidbits right now and save video for you for later.
Just know recycling and carbon offsetting [...]
In light of Raleigh’s new ordinance, in effect this coming Monday (March 17th), if you are building a home, renovating your home or simply repairing your kitchen, don’t bother to look into a garbage disposal for your sink. Apparently, Raleigh’s making another effort to save our water supply.
I have no doubt that you’ve already heard [...]
My can of worms for you: Walmart is getting in on green.
With the new Clorox line of environmentally-safe cleaning products (second can, now open) at a cheap price
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GOV. EASLEY ANNOUNCES GREEN BUSINESS GRANT PROGRAM FOR SMALL BUSINESSES
$1 Million Fund Will Help Companies Develop Cutting-Edge Green Technologies
Gov. Mike Easley announced that small business owners and entrepreneurs can apply today for the new North Carolina Green Business Fund grants. These competitive grants will help small businesses develop promising green and alternative energy technologies to [...]
Straight from my inbox (thank you Advance Energy!) to you:
The 2008 NC Sustainable Building Design Competition has been launched! Student teams from universities and community colleges across the state will be designing a green duplex to be built by Carolina Meadows, a Chapel Hill, NC-based continuing care retirement facility. The design will include sustainable approaches [...]
So, last night I attended the Duke - Durham townhall meeting “Will the Water Run Out?”. New Hampshire had nothing on Durham ~ as for the Triangle, the attention was on local political figures, local experts and professors and even a crowd of about, oh, 375 residents who are concerned about the impending crisis. Just [...]
If you’re in the mood to redesign / redecorate your home for a fresh new year, here’s what to watch for in 2008’s home interior!
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