Tag: North Carolina - Page 2
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International Airport Building Huge Worm Composting Facility
Worm composting is not just for gardeners anymore. Charlotte/Douglas Airport in NC is adding a 2-ton-a-day worm composter to its recycling center.
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Man Single-Handedly Saves a Species of Snail
Magnificent ramshorn snails aren't one of those high-profile endangered species that the conservationists community love to rally behind -- so thank goodness there are folks like Andy Wood.
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Apple to Install Solar Farm at iCloud Data Center
Apple has begun work on a large solar farm next to an iCloud data center. Nobody knows how large. But this is a very good sign...
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How I Created a Tool Library in Under Two Hours
When I say "I", I mean "we". And when I say "tool library", really I mean lending network. But the core lesson still stands. Sharing is really easy, and often all it takes is broaching the
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Solar "Double Cropping" Harvests Food & Energy on the Same Land
As gigantic solar farms become ever more commonplace, some have raised the question of how big is too big for centralized solar. From solar parking lots through solar in old mines to solar parks that nurture bees
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Andy Griffith's "Mayberry" Goes Solar
From a stunning Victorian bridge turned solar power station to old houses being retrofitted with solar panels, there's plenty of symbolism around as the past gives way to a clean energy future. As a Brit, I never grew up with Andy Griffith, but news
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Compost Shuttle Pioneer Hauls Trash on His Back Seat
When I posted about a compost shuttle start-up that was seeking funding to expand, there was some speculation as to the carbon footprint of services like this. Of course the least impact would be to build a DIY worm bin or similar backyard solution
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Sierra Club Announces the Nation's "Coolest" Schools
School is a testing ground for the way we perform later in life. It can mold us into fine upstanding members of society, or not. While environmental responsibility isn't something we have to learn early in life, it certainly makes
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Giving Food Away is Great for Business: The Surprising Benefits of Local Lending
Image credit: Vimala's Curryblossom Cafe The Slow Money movement has been pushing for more localized, more connected financial systems—asking what the world would be like if we invested 50% of our assets within 50 miles of where we live. But
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Tobacco Farmers Transitioning to Diversified, Sustainable Agriculture (Video)
Given the environmental and social impacts of smoking, most TreeHuggers are not huge fans of tobacco. (Cheap, biodegradable solar grown from tobacco still seems a ways off.) But what to do with all that land that was once used
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How to Prevent Blossom End Rot in Tomatoes (Video)
I mentioned in my Lazivore Manifesto that it is important, when gardening, to cut yourself some slack when you fail. I even suggested that it is OK to give up and grow something easier. (It's a theme also discussed over at Planet
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Greenbridge, A Model For Green Development, Faces Foreclosure
There are a couple of fundamental rules that I learned during my real estate development career that ended a decade ago:
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Honey Becomes Jewellery in an Effort to Save the Bees
As Discovery's network-wide Bees on the Brink coverage continues, we want to focus not just on what problems honeybees face, but also on what each of us can do to help them. From funding an educational version of the
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Another Community Supported Fishery Makes Waves
Some time back I wrote about Walking Fish, a student-pioneered Community Supported Fishery (CSF) program, and Jeff covered how one fisherman was staying afloat by launching his own CSF initiative. Like Community
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Birds Fly Farther North as Winter Temperatures Rise
In recent decades, birdwatchers in North Carolina have had to travel farther and farther north to catch a glimpse of their beloved wrens and waxwings, and scientists suggest that changes in the climate could be to blame
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Tiny Houses Are Cool. What About a Tiny House Conference?
From the Tumbleweed Tiny House Company to the miniscule Chinese green egg house, TreeHugger has often enthused that very small houses could be the next big thing. At least that's
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Pig Farm Manure Lagoons Ineffective in Controlling Pollution
John has written before about how manure lagoons may become a liability in a warming climate, but even now the practice of storing vast amounts of animal waste in anaerobic lagoons is causing major environmental concerns. Science Daily points to new
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A Home Office Design from Recycled Materials - Working with Contractors on Reuse
We're big into creative reuse here at TreeHugger, especially when it comes to architecture. From trains repurposed as bunkhouses to establishing building reuse centers for
