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Smart selections: Buy local By on 03/16/2009 Product transportation has major environmental impacts. Before buying a product, find out where it is produced. LEED gives credit for products extracted and manufactured […]
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Smart selections: Paint By on 03/16/2009 Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are emitted as gases from certain solids or liquids. VOCs include a variety of chemicals, some of which may have short-
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Got stormwater runoff? By Melanie Brethauer on 03/16/2009 If you drive a car, have a pet, fertilize your lawn, grow a garden, live in a house, have a gravel or paved
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Puzzles By Steve Linton on 03/16/2009 Crossword puzzle There are 39 green building words and phrases hidden below. Words go in any direction — forward, backward, up, down, and diagonal. For
It’s no surprise that GO!, the acronym for Asheville’s budding green-jobs training initiative, has an urgent ring to it. The Asheville Green Opportunity Corps pilot program was created as a
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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
Case study: This old greener house Read More
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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Plumb green with graywater By Georg Efird on 03/16/2009 Graywater is not a new term to many of us. It is water that has been used in the kitchen sink, washing
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