Tag: North Carolina - Page 3
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Ethical Barbecue: Can Traditional Eateries and Better Meat Coexist?
As a British transplant to North Carolina, I have always been fascinated by this state's barbecue culture. But as a flexitarian who eats mostly plant-based foods, and who tries to stick to local, humanely reared meat
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$3k Website Connects Farms to Restaurants, Creating Virtual Coop
From beekeepers using the internet to fight colony collapse disorder, through crop mob and other new agrarians organizing online, to wireless soil sensors optimizing farm resources, a return to sustainable farming
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Solar Delivers Much More than Electricity - Renewables as Branding Tool
As I write this post, I'm waiting for my annual car inspection. I'm staring at a flat-screen monitor that communicates just how much power is being channeled down from the 16.4kw PV array on the roof to
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Behind the Scenes Look at Industrial-Scale Composting (Video)
From bicycle-based compost collection to city-wide mandatory composting, TreeHugger is a big fan of taking waste organic matter and putting it to good use. But what happens once your kitchen scraps and other organic waste are
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Duke University Turns Pig Poop into Power (Video)
Image credit: Duke University Duke University's Bleed Blue, Live Green campaign created a clamor of attention from fans wanting to get hold of a limited edition shirt. So much so, we had to post a follow up on where to find the green Duke shirts. I'm
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Readers' Favorite Green Restaurants
Our recent list of "10 Great New Green Restaurants in the U.S." cooked up plenty of responses from TreeHugger readers. Namely, you said the list should be longer. Ask, and you
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Harvest Celebrations for the 21st Century - the Pittsboro Pepper Fest
We TreeHuggers love to talk about biodiversity in our food systems, and tend not to be a big fan of monocultures (though some farmers are admittedly experimenting with more efficient forms of industrial monoculture). By
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Record Year for Sea Turtles Follows Off-Road Vehicle Restrictions
Whether or not BP was burning sea turtles alive, the Gulf oil spill did kill a lot of these endangered creatures. But the news hasn't been quite so grim elsewhere. In fact on Cape Hatteras, North Carolina—where there has
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With Spectacular Stick Sculptures by Patrick Dougherty, Art and Nature Collide (Slideshow)
For sculptures that start out as scrap and end up as compost, Patrick Dougherty's nest-like works are
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UNC to Stop Burning Coal: First Victory for Sierra Club Campaign
As far as college towns go, Chapel Hill in North Carolina has a fair few things going for it. From being the birthplace of crop mob, through free buses, to the admittedly controversial Greenbridge high-end eco-condos, there are
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Volunteerism as Backbone of Farming: Return of the Barn Raising
Conceived originally as a means for landless farmers to get farming, Crop Mob has grown and flourished in little over a year. Volunteers get together once a month and descend on a local farm or garden, and work
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Natural Burial Travels East
When I wrote about a Green Burial Expo in California, asking if green burials could be fun, one commenter worried that we were perpetuating the notion that sustainable funerals have to be "wacky" or offbeat. Indeed, while
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Wasted Food: Trashing the Idea of Throwaway Food
On some basic moral level, there is very little more repugnant than wasting good food. Having written about massive on-site composting, freeganism and even jet fuel made from food waste, it would be fair to say that I am
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Rural North Carolinians Adapting To Landfill Plastic Bottle Ban
North Carolina now bans the landfilling of plastic bottles of all types - more information here - and this has become a practical issue in rural towns where curbside recycling is not offered. Winston-Salem Journal
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7 Short and Senseless Flights We'd Love to Ban
Sometimes it's better to drive. Whether that means you carpool, rent a car, or take public transportation the fact of the matter is that you'd blow more carbon emissions if you traveled by airplane. Not only do you
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An Edible Schoolyard in Durham: How Kids Grow (Video)
We're big fans of edible schoolyards. From Alice Waters' original edible schoolyard efforts in California to one school's garden in the arid deserts of Arizona the concept is reconnecting kids with their food and each other. Kids in my neck of the
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The Inconceivability of Immobility (and the Stupidness of Sami)
This weekend I did a profoundly stupid, irresponsible thing. I packed up our car, wrapped up my eleven-week-old daughter, and tried to drive across the mountains from North Carolina through West Virginia to Indiana in record
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Raleigh Denim: Sustainably Stitched Jeans
Flipping through the glossies today at Barnes & Noble I happened upon a write-up on sustainable jeans company Raleigh Denim in Nylon Mag's November
