Tag: North Carolina

  • Moral Monday Shames North Carolina Legislature

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    Moral Mondays Shames NC Lawmakers, So They’re Restricting Statehouse Access (via http://crooksandliars.com) By karoli May 17, 2014 8:00 am – Comments North Carolina lawmakers announced strict new rules aimed at limiting Moral Monday protests, or even better, ending them. Conservatives in North Carolina really do not like the weekly protests in the state capitol…

  • Food Hubs – The Key to Expanding Regional Food Systems

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    It was 2004, and the re-emergence of local and regional food systems was still relatively novel across the nation—perhaps especially in the Southeast United States (despite the fact that until the last half-century, local and regional food was all there was). And yet it was in Durham, N.C., that some industrious individuals, with the help…

  • The Conservation Fund And Its Branches

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    The Conservation Fund has been working with communities, government and business partners to save millions of acres of land and water across the United States.   In the nearly 30 years of their existence, they’ve protected 7 million acres of land and water in all 50 states. In 2001 they founded the Natural Capital Investment…