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Giving Food Away is Great for Business: The Surprising Benefits of Local Lending

9:51 am in Business & Politics, economics, food, local food, north carolina, united states, vegan, vegetarian by TreeHugger

vimala curry blossom local financing photo 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 assets within 50 miles of where we live. But what's so green about local money? After all, it's not as if we are trucking around large shipments of gold, burning up fossil fuels in the process, when we invest elsewhere. But, just as Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Tobacco Farmers Transitioning to Diversified, Sustainable Agriculture (Video)

4:31 pm in agriculture, farming, food, north carolina, united states by TreeHugger

piedmont local food photo Image credit: RAFI USA 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 that land that was once used for growing tobacco, and what about the communities who depended on it? An enterprising community of farmers is busy finding alternatives and&mdash...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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How to Prevent Blossom End Rot in Tomatoes (Video)

10:06 am in agriculture, botanical, farming, food, north carolina, united states by TreeHugger

blossom end rot photo Image credit: KLRU 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 also discussed over at Planet Green in Organic Gardening 101: Be OK With Failure.) But sometimes failure hurts too much—especially when those promising looking green tomatoes...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Greenbridge, A Model For Green Development, Faces Foreclosure

11:14 am in business, Design & Architecture, green building, north carolina by TreeHugger

greenbridge exterior photo Image credit Greenbridge This post was co-written by Sami Grover and Lloyd Alter. Lloyd writes: There are a couple of fundamental rules that I learned during my real estate development career that ended a decade ago: 1. Everyone is a genius in a rising market; avoid downturns. 2. Originality is for suckers; copy other successes instead of breaking new ground. 3. Sell your units for more than it costs you to build them. 4. Be an asshole. Nice guys finish broke. Now these may seem blindingly obvious, but I only learned them in hindsight. Thus I was really saddened to Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Honey Becomes Jewellery in an Effort to Save the Bees

8:46 am in activism, bees, botanical, colony collapse disorder, north carolina, united states by TreeHugger

life's work of a honeybee new amber jewellery photo Image credit: Friends of Honeybees As Discovery's network-wide Bees on the Brink coverage continues, we want to focus not just on what problems honeybees face, but also on what each of us can do to help them. From funding an educational version of the Vanishing of the Bees, through planting bee-friendly flowers, and even Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Birds Fly Farther North as Winter Temperatures Rise

10:51 pm in birds, global warming effects, north carolina, Travel & Nature by TreeHugger

cedar wren photo Photo: Kelly Colgan Azar / cc In recent decades, birdwatchers in North Carolina have had to travel farther and farther north to catch a glimpse of their beloved wrens and waxwings, and scientists suggest that changes in the climate could be to blame for the birds' relocation in the winter. According to researchers, many birds species that were once common in the region around Charlotte have moved northward as temperatures in the region continue to increase -- on average, a whopping 116 miles away -- but global warming may not be the only reason why...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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