North Carolina’s current energy policy aims to achieve carbon neutrality through the least cost path that maintains or improves grid reliability. Environmentalists have made it clear that they want the…
A new report from the Buckeye Institute finds that environmental policies harm farm workers. In the push for environmental sustainability and carbon neutrality, governments around the world have implemented various…
Björn Lomborg writing in the Telegraph: Essentially, organic food is rich people spending their extra cash to feel good. While that is just as valid as spending it on holidays,…
A former landlady told the story of when she was a little girl, she rescued a big bug from a spider’s web in her bedroom window. As the winter progressed,…
The City of Asheville held its third goatscaping. Goats are more sustainable than inventions of the 21st-century because they emit less methane and are trained to uproot invasive species. It…
“You can eat local produce all winter long,” thanks to public/private partnerships.
As reported by the Associated Press in the Charlotte Observer and many other media outlets. One of many highlights: But the ethanol era has proven far more damaging to the…
You might find this hard to believe, but the federal government’s push to boost ethanol production has led to unanticipated results no one would have supported. Even the Associated Press…
“About 100 UNCA students marked the campus’s first Food Day, researching recipes and nutrition as well as the politics of food.” The main feature of the event was a panel…
Yesterday, we told of federal grants of hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars to operate a couple lightbulbs. The Hendersonville Times-News presented the story of important officials’ visit to…
John Stossel‘s latest column posted at Human Events pokes at the notion that “all-natural” items are better for us: Restaurants serving burgers supposedly made from grass-fed beef self-servingly claim their…
One of the delights of living outside the city is the opportunity to buy produce from roadside stands attached to local farms. But when I buy local, I’m not buying…