Special Issues
We in the 21st century can learn a lot about living from two generations ago. Mostly, it's just common sense: Eat local. Go organic. Consume less. Don't waste. Get out of the car.
15 Apr 2009
Comprised of several thousand square feet of warehouses, office space and fuel tanks, the Green Oil Campus is being carved out of an old Exxon Mobil industrial site from the 1920s, located off Angier Avenue.
15 Apr 2009
Vermicomposting is a great way to reduce the amount of garbage that goes into the landfill and to improve your soil. Each day, worms can eat their weight in garbage.
15 Apr 2009
The diligence of a coterie of science and policy folks is slowly sculpting a new water policy for the Triangle and the Piedmont.
15 Apr 2009
Green roofs, which are common in Europe and are growing in popularity in the U.S., can reduce water runoff and contribute to the neighborhood's biodiversity.
15 Apr 2009
The majority of dry cleaners use a solvent called perchloroethylene, a serious health and environmental hazard that can wind up in the groundwater.
15 Apr 2009
As interest in local and organic food has grown, people in Wake Forest, Carrboro and Raleigh have begun keeping a few chickens at home for food, fertilizer and even friendship.
15 Apr 2009
North Carolina will purchase nearly 2,500 acres from the heirs of Hugh Morton, a photographer who became the sole owner of the land in 1952.
15 Apr 2009
Before the introduction of chemical herbicides, goats and llamas were used for centuries to help clear land and get rid of weeds. And now they've arrived in the Triangle.
15 Apr 2009
Although initial controversies over large turbines have held up adoption of wind, community-scale wind energy is increasingly seen as a safe and affordable addition to centralized generation.
15 Apr 2009
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Components from e-waste—broken computers and outdated cameras, old printers and first generation GPS units—are harmful to the environment when they break and the lead, mercury and other chemicals spill.
15 Apr 2009
Clean Water for NC and NC WARN have joined other environmental and social justice groups to formulate an alternative energy efficiency plan called NC SAVE$ that they are promoting.
15 Apr 2009
Carpet can be recycled into geohay, used at construction sites, and reused as roofing shingles, tile board and other items.
15 Apr 2009
With the world awakening to economic and environmental crises, a newly emerging Black Brown and Green Alliance in Durham is organizing to seize the strategic moment to blaze a sustainable and just economic path.
15 Apr 2009
When I lived in Texas, where it's often hotter than the ninth circle of hell, I once concocted a solar oven using a wheelbarrow, aluminum foil and cardboard (windshield sun reflectors also work and are easier).
15 Apr 2009
Whether you choose to keep bees or just want to watch them flit busily from flower to flower, save a kindly thought for our little friends.
15 Apr 2009
For most campus diners, the industrial food system fueled by the money and purchasing power of food giants such as Aramark and Sysco remains invisible.
15 Apr 2009
Some advertisers are also listed in the Green Living Guide section of our Locations Guide.
15 Apr 2009
Listings for local resources regarding energy, farming, farmland preservation, financial information, green building, indoor air quality, land conservation, recycling, smart growth, transit, water conservation, more
15 Apr 2009
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