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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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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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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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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Duke Energy Renewables Buys 3 Major NC Solar Projects
North Carolina is not known for leading in renewable energy. But Duke Energy just invested in 3 significant solar projects.
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Urban Agriculture As Economic Stimulus: Help Grow a People-Funded Farm (Video)
Community farming is not altruistic do-gooding. This NC collective argues it's about rethinking our entire food system.
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Local T-Shirts Made from Local Cotton, Now Includes Organic Too
Experts said you couldn't grow organic cotton in NC. But one initiative, which is already recreating a completely local supply chain for its t-shirts, set out to prove them wrong.
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A Native American Community Fights Poverty Through Farming
Poor diet, economic exclusion and drugs are not just confined to the city. And neither is the idea that sustainable farming can offer a better path forward.
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North Carolina Finds Excess Toxic Metals In Water Near Coal Plants
State regulators have found boron, arsenic, selenium and other toxic metals near 14 power plants, all in excess of state health standards.
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A Farmer Preserves Heirloom Corn, Molasses and Mountain Moonshine Too (Video)
Heirloom corn and sorghum molasses provide a window to our past in the hands of a small family farmer. So does a slightly stronger, more illicit drink.
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Local T-Shirts, Organic Cotton and Serious Renewable Energy: Q&A with Eric...
From organic cotton to 100% local teeshirts, TS Designs has some of the most sustainable practices in the industry. Join us to discuss sustainability, peak oil and resilient business.
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How a Village Became a Hub for Resilience and Rock & Roll
From a "five star gas station" to a leading music venue, some old cotton mills in rural North Carolina are becoming a hub of a new economy.
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Greenpeace Protests Coal & Mountaintop Removal Atop 400 Ft Power Plant
The green activist group's stunt seeks to draw attention to the devastation wrought by coal.
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