Welcome to Asheville Green Source, your official one stop resource for green living in and around Asheville and Western North Carolina. We offer a comprehensive business directory of green businesses, a calendar of local green events, links to green organizations, and a guide for Local, State, and Federal tax incentives and credits.
Some of the resources you will find on this site include local venders and providers of alternative and renewable energy sources, organic and locally grown foods, sustainable development and green building, native plants and landscaping, biofuels, socially and environmentally responsible financial services and eco-tourism. We are also a directory of businesses providing environmentally friendly "stuff" and much much more...
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Interested in tracking your energy usage? We're pleased to announce the availability of a free online energy tracking tool. The free website, named GreenQuest, is a personal energy dashboard that enables community members to track and analyze energy use for their home or place of business.
Using this software, community residents can track their energy use and cost; compare their building with its peers; evaluate energy saving projects; track their carbon footprint; analyze energy use with AccuWeather weather data; and as an option, obtain an ENERGY STAR building rating (for commercial buildings)
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Restoring the American chestnut
Dale Neal The American Chestnut Foundation is moving its national headquarters into the United States Forest Service Building near UNC Asheville this month.
"We are very excited about this opportunity to move our headquarters to a town with such a rich historical connection to the American chestnut. With its proximity to Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the North Carolina Arboretum and less-than-a-two-hour drive to Meadowview-where our research farms are located-Asheville is an excellent location to begin our next 25 years of working to restore the American chestnut....
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A few suggestions to green your life.
Libby Bacon
It's easy to jump on the green bandwagon, but this is not something new and trendy that will make us cool today. Being green is a way of life that many of our parents and grandparents embraced while we thought they were being cheap. Remember how they always turned out the lights and reused those paper bags until they were falling apart? If you don't then your Mom and Grandma were of the consumer mentality...
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When Your Dorm Goes Green and Local
By CHARLES WILSON
Thoreau said education often made straight-cut ditches out of meandering brooks. But not at the EcoDorm, which houses 36 undergraduates and is the spiritual heart of Warren Wilson College, a liberal-arts school of fewer than 1,000 students in Swannanoa, N.C.
In recent years, colleges like Warren Wilson took a leading role in the sustainability movement, which seeks to foster a durable human relationship with the environment. More than 600 U.S. colleges and universities are signatories of a pledge to become carbon neutral. Ninety dorms are now LEED certified, the most widely accepted national standard for green design. The EcoDorm is one of only two student residences that have LEED's platinum rating, its highest.
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