The first phases of Western North Carolina’s first solar farm are harvesting the sun’s energy and producing electricity, just two years after Progress Energy and First Light Solar signed the […]
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What does green building mean to you? What do you like about your green home? I began with a desire to do my small part to help save our environment.
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At two of Henderson County’s newest elementary schools, sunlight makes every room glow, even on a cloudy winter day when the powered lights are off. The abundance of natural light
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Patience, research and balance: Those are some of the ingredients for successfully renovating an older house within a “green” philosophy. Matt Siegel has followed these notions in the ongoing green
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When the WNC Green Building Council first got involved with the new school being built in Cherokee, it was little more than a concept: Create a K-12 facility that would
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Here’s one mountaintop house that blends in with the stunning view instead of overpowering it: the net-zero-energy home owned by Yves Naar, designed by architect Stephens Smith Farrell and built
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It’s no surprise that Randy Talley runs a “green” coffeehouse that sports solar panels on its roof. Back “before it was cool” (and he was 18), says the entrepreneur, he
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