Story and photos by Lindsey Chester. Cary, NC – The children at Bright Horizons at the Clubhouse in Cary have been busy for the past year building a Greenhouse made out of 1700 recycled 2-liter bottles. The children will use the greenhouse to grow food to give back to their…
Betsy Dessau's passion for recycling and re-use began during the first Earth Day when she was in college collecting IBM punch cards. This March 31, Betsy will celebrate the opening of her new venture the Cary Creative Center that aims to literally turn trash to treasures.…
A reader sent in the picture up above with the following note, "I saw this truck in Bond Park this morning and wondered what he was doing. The side of the truck said Beaver Control."…
These amazing birds are called Cedar Waxwings. The reason they are so funny is they fly around, crashing into each other. They stumble. They fall out of trees. They fly into trees.…
The market for green products, those that waste less and leave a small carbon footprint, is one of the fastest growing market segments. Sip...A Wine Store sells organic and sustainably produced wines and recently had Y + B Wines in for a tasting. …
Dorcas Ministries in Cary is all set to get free energy, and cash, from some unused rooftop space. Welcome to the green economy.…
The proposed ordinance would essentially eliminate beekeeping in town limits. So who cares right? I mean, who needs bees anyways?…
Did you know the Town of Cary pays an average of $20 per ton to send trash to the landfill, but gets paid $30 per ton for all the items we recycle? Tune up your green lifestyle with 7 Spruce events this Spring.…
Don't be frightened if you see smoke rising from Hemlock Bluffs on Monday, January 30, 2012. It's a "prescribed burn," a forestry process to prevent larger forest fires.…
Last year at about this time, editor Matt Young did a story about Eagle Cam, a citizen science project at Jordan Lake. The big birds are back, and you can watch online again this year as they sit in the nest and prepare to hatch their young.…
