Tag: North Carolina - Page 8
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Paperhand Puppet Intervention: A Call to the Wild in Raleigh, NC
When we interviewed Tim Toben, of Greenbridge Developments, and asked him what every TreeHugger could do to make a better, greener world, he suggested that people should "tell the story about the transformation from a world powered by fossil fuels to
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Greenway Pedicabs: Tricycle Taxis for the Triangle
A few weeks ago, this Treehugger had his first experience of pedicabs. For the uninitiated, this is the hip, modern name for what is, essentially, a rickshaw, or tricycle taxi. They seem to be mushrooming everywhere. London is now full of them, thanks
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The Village Project: Smart Folks Championing Smart Growth
We have already covered a North Carolina project encouraging people to design their lifestyles around better transport options here, now we’ve come across a project that aims to make such choices easier. The Village Project is an organization offering
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Sustainable Furniture Council Launches in Style
Monday night in High Point, North Carolina, and the movers and
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The TH Interview: Tim Toben of Greenbridge and Pickards Mountain Eco-Institute
Tim Toben is the former CEO of KnowledgeBase Marketing who, after taking a fishing trip with Bill McDonough, became convinced of the need for a new, innovative, green economy. He is now one of the partners of Greenbridge Developments, a LEED Gold
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Pickards Mountain Eco-Institute: A Learning Model for Green Living
A little while back we reported on Greenbridge, a new high-density LEED Gold certified development that will be going up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in the near future. While Greenbridge is certainly at the more luxurious end of the green living
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The TH Interview: Eric Henry of TS Designs
What do you do when you lose 90% of your business due to globalization and the North American Free Trade Agreement? If you’re Eric Henry, President of TS Designs, which we have previously covered here, you spend $30,000 on erecting a solar array, you
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The TH Interview: Lyle Estill of Piedmont Biofuels, Part 3 of 3
Lyle Estill is co-founder, along with Leif Forer, Rachel Burton and a band of fellow grease enthusiasts, of Piedmont Biofuels (PB), a group that we reported on here. PB is essentially a biodiesel co-op that has gone from backyard 'brewing', to
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The TH Interview: Lyle Estill of Piedmont Biofuels, Part 2 of 3
Lyle Estill is co-founder, along with Leif Forer, Rachel Burton and a band of fellow grease enthusiasts, of Piedmont Biofuels (PB), a group that we reported on here. PB is essentially a biodiesel co-op that has gone from backyard 'brewing', to
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The TH Interview: Lyle Estill of Piedmont Biofuels, Part 1 of 3
Lyle Estill is co-founder, along with Leif Forer, Rachel Burton and a band of fellow grease enthusiasts, of Piedmont Biofuels (PB), a group that we reported on here. PB is essentially a biodiesel co-op that has gone from backyard 'brewing', to
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AbilityTrek: Cycling for Landmine Amputees
Like cycling? (and what treehugger couldn’t?) Like helping folk doing it tougher than you? (ditto) Hey, have we got a match for you. Join up with endurance cyclist and amputee Daniel Sheret, as he attempts to ride around the world raising funds and
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Piedmont Biofuels: Still Brewing
We first covered Piedmont Biofuels way back in May 2005, but they are certainly worth revisiting. Based in the piedmont region of North Carolina, this worker and member-owned cooperative promotes and sells biodiesel fuel made from vegetable oil. They
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South Carolina Threatens To Sue North Carolina Over Water Use
Via:- The State, in Columbia, S.C. we see that South Carolina could file a lawsuit against North Carolina "as early as this week" if the N.C. Environmental Management Commission approves a two-city plan to remove 36 million gallons of water a day from
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Rub a Dub Dub
This year Santa was good to me and brought these Anders Natural Soaps, which I just love. The company is based in Raleigh, North Carolina and has been around since 1999. The soaps are made with extra virgin olive oil instead of pomice olive oil and are
