Matt Raker's Blog Posts Tagged 'local' (4)

Handmade in America invites fiber farmers, spinners, custom mills, garment and textile artists within the 23 counties of Western North Carolina to enter its Farm to Fashion™ exhibit opening Nov. 28, 2011. Our goal is to help explain “Where do your clothes and blankets come from?”

The purpose of the exhibit is to…

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The Clean Energy Now conference is just one day away. To be held Friday October 8 at the new Blue Ridge Conference Hall at Blue Ridge Community College, the event will be an intensive overview of best practices in energy efficiency, renewable energy, and clean vehicles geared for manufacturers, companies and local governments. Hear from the new Assistant Secretary for Energy at NC Commerce,… Continue

"Welcome to Agriculture 2.0.That was the name of the conference and represents a growing effort to scale up sustainable agriculture from a hodge-podge of hippies and back-to-the-land types into a viable big business by bringing together venture capitalists and startups doing everything from rooftop farming to high-tech soil mapping to identifying the best areas for growing crops."



Read all about it in Grist Magazine:… Continue

The newly established N.C. Sustainable Local Food Advisory Council held its first meeting Feb. 9. There are 26 seats on the statewide council, and 24 of these appointees were able to attend the long awaited inaugural meeting held in front of a standing-room-only audience. N.C. Dept. of Commerce Sec. Keith Crisco is a member of the council.



The concept of creating a statewide council was identified as a priority during the Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS) Farm-to-Fork… Continue