November 2, 2009
FYI: Starting this month, customers of any Harris Teeter store will be able to recycle bottles and cans in addition to plastic and paper bags in the front lobby.
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October 27, 2009
Believe it or not, but second lives do exist for the goopy, dirty, dusty and smelly remains of our everyday personal and industrial activities. And the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources is doing what it can to encourage more p...
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October 26, 2009
This week, Elon University will hold its 8th annual fall environmental forum, this time focused on sustainability in business. The forum will take place on Friday, with two tours scheduled to the Proximity Hotel and a New London farm where T.S. Designs in...
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The versatility and weakness of sustainability is that it means different things to people and attracts different motivations. It can be a source of business innovation, a marketing ploy, an aesthetic ideal, a response to better information, a new economi...
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October 22, 2009
Rob Clapper, president of the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce, planned to meet this morning with representatives from the Greensboro Merchants Association and Buy Triad First to find out how to support the young grassroots group. I picked his brain a...
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Downtown shoppers can cut back some of their packaging trash by picking up a free reusable tote offered by Downtown Greensboro Incorporated (DGI) as part of its efforts to promote the business district and reduce its waste stream. Shoppers get the totes b...
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October 19, 2009
In about a month, Greensboro will join Asheville, Durham and other cities in offering a one-stop place for home and business owners to find green building materials.
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The first things I noticed when I walked into the new R|E|F|S, a sophisticated sports bar tucked away behind Kohls and Village Tavern off Westridge Road, were the wall-sized displays of cocktail ingredients, the slick black seats and the flat-screen...
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October 14, 2009
Michael Shuman, a nationally known proponent of community-based economies, will speak in two places (that I'm aware of) in North Carolina this month, one of which is open to the public.
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October 8, 2009
Maria Fangman has taken steps over the past couple years to add some eco-conscious options to her 12-year-old catering and to-go store located in Lawndale Shopping Center in Greensboro.
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September 17, 2009
Walmart, the transnational corporation that gets so much flak, announced this summer that it will help provide consumers with the information they need to choose environmentally-responsible products by getting the green 411 from its 100,000 global supplie...
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September 15, 2009
If you're involved with the tourism industry in North Carolina, you might want to check out this set of video presentations from a November 2008 workshop at the N.C. Center for Sustainable Tourism at East Carolina University. The center has not yet posted...
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Chances are good that you've eaten meat at a local restaurant or hotel that was cut and distributed by Southern Foods, a Greensboro-based company that has served the area since 1954.
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September 13, 2009
A new initiative by the MillerCoors brings brewery employees out to streams and riverbeds across the country this month. The company has adopted September as water stewardship month and on Saturday, about 45 employees and family members of the Eden...
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September 9, 2009
Note: Find an update below.All kinds of "buy local" initiatives are bubbling up from the Greensboro grassroots and business community these days. I learned this week that a group of business owners are organizing a local version of the 3/50...
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