Some low-income families in Buncombe County will begin receiving free energy-efficiency upgrades to their homes this month through a new county-funded Green Built Alliance program intended to help people in […]
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Haywood Community College: A local leader in sustainability By Mari Fox on 03/13/2013 Photos by Max Cooper More than four years ago, then-Haywood Community College President Rose Johnson signed the 2008
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A load of energy savings By Laura Piraino on 03/13/2013 Did you know that most of the energy used to wash a load of laundry goes into heating the water? Ninety
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Go forward By Laura Piraino on 03/13/2013 Asheville is familiar with accolades. It’s been recognized as the best (or in the top 10) for its happiness quotient, beer, Southern charm, access
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Growing a sustainable food system By Allison Perrett and Charlie Jackson on 03/13/2013 Food is the most basic of human necessities, but it’s easy in our current food system to make
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This is installment #5 for ecological, site-specific considerations for siting Green Built structures on undeveloped, forested land. This post highlights physical characteristics of the land that are essential to understand
Post #5: The Treasure Hunt Part II: Physical Conditions Survey Read More
This is installment #4 for ecological, site-specific considerations for siting Green Built structure on undeveloped, forested land. This posting will focus primarily on the living resources of the land: natural
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This is installment #3 in regards to ecological, site-specific considerations when building a Green Built structure on undeveloped, forested land. There are several assumptions built into this process including
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In my previous blog, I discussed the concept of protecting, and incorporating the ecology of a building site into the green-building process on raw land. To clarify, this process is
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