State officials have created the North Carolina Green Building Technology Database, an online resource that showcases local projects currently implementing green techniques. Click here to check it out.
DURHAM, N.C. — Old, withered vegetables. Crinkled-up coffee filters. Fruit peelings that are days old. Most people think kitchen garbage is disgusting. But Richard Stenz has gotten used to the site of it all.
“I’ve kind of got passed that,” he said laughing as he put two and five gallon buckets on his bicycle.
Raleigh’s Sue Sturgis reminds everyone that a screening of ‘End Of Suburbia’ is planned for 7 p.m. Thursday at the Cameron Village library location.
Read more about it in her Raleigh Eco News blog here.
Check out the list of the top green vacations from ”The Green Guide” here.
The North Carolina Botanical Garden will hold two free programs to celebrate Earth Day.
On Saturday, April 26, at 10 a.m., a “Growing Green Earth Day Tour” will take place on the grounds and trails of the Botanical Garden. Garden Director Peter White will conduct the tour.
On Sunday, April 27 at 2 p.m., people can take part in a free lecture with retired assistant director Ken Moore about the passions that inspire people to garden. The “Why We Garden-A Conservation with Ken Moore” lecture includes a catered reception in the Carolina Inn’s Hill Ballroom.
Although registration is not required, it is advisable to call 919-962-0522 ahead of time to reserve a place.
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You mow it, spray it, fertilize it, weed it, water it, plug it, rake it, thatch it and edge it - the lawn, that is, that endless glutton of time and energy and usurper of weekends. You feel guilty if it is in poor shape, and you feel guilty again if you use the water, chemicals and energy necessary to sustain it. 
Paul Tukey, author of The Organic Lawn Care Manual, has put a lot of effort into changing that. Tukey is a co-host and executive producer at HGTV, the publisher of People, Places and Plants magazine and was named 2006 Communicator of the Year by the American Horticultural Society. He is also national spokesman for Safelawns.org, a group dedicated to “creating a broad-based coalition of non- and for-profit organizations committed to educating society about the benefits of environmentally responsible lawn care and gardening, and effect a quantum change in consumer and industry behavior.” (more…)
The N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services announced in a press release it has added two electric vehicles to its State Fairgrounds fleet, thanks to a Clean Fuel Advanced Technology grant.
Electric vehicles isn’t the first way the fair has gone green, the fairgrounds uses bio-diesel to power the Gov. Kerr Scott building year-round, as well as some midway rides during the fair. The fair also recycles cooking oil and animal manure.
