Wood Mill Winery is located in Vale, NC and offers a great selection of wine. You might wonder why Energy Smart Charlotte has decided to write about Wood Mill Winery and the answer is because it saves energy. You wonder how? If we make the effort to buy more of our goodies locally, we are also cutting down transportation cost from supplier to our homes. Supporting locally makes Charlotte truly a greener city.
We had the opportunity to speak to one of Wood Mill Winery Staff member and they shared with us
the story behind it all: Inspired by his father’s deteriorating heart condition and motivated by a long family history of cardiovascular ailments, Larry Cagle, Jr. searched medical journals and university studies for articles on cardiovascular health. One particular article, “The French Paradox”, suggests that moderate daily consumption of red wine, over a prolonged period of time, reduced the occurrence of heart disease in the French people by up-to forty-percent. (more…)
Archive for January, 2010
Wood Mill Winery
Sunday, January 24th, 2010Harvest Moon Grille
Sunday, January 24th, 2010Name: Harvest Moon Grille
Locations:
Monday & Wednesday 11:30-2:30
In Gateway Village downtown Charlotte
901 W. Trade Street
(Next to the Double Tree Hotel)
Tuesdays & Thursday 11:30-2:30
On Tryon at 4th between Bank of America and Chima
Fresh, local food from Grateful Growers Farm. They wanted to offer the Charlotte community another option for food on the go, so they’ve launched this great new venture, The Harvest Moon Grille.
Description: “We serve delicious, fresh food all made from scratch with locally-grown ingredients. Our menus change weekly, and we are at a few venues around Charlotte each week.” (more…)
Recycle: What Can I Recycle?
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010Energy Smart Charlotte wanted to share this refresher course in recycling. We found this article in Real Simple Magazine
Recycling: A Refresher Course
This primer reminds you of what you can and can’t recycle―and why.
by Natalie Ermann Russell
Plastic
Most plastics are recyclable,” says Keith Christman, senior director of packaging at the American Chemistry Council Plastics Division, in Arlington, Virginia. The problem is, not all plastics are recyclable everywhere. Almost all recycling programs accept plastics numbered 1 and 2. (Look for the number on the underside of a product, inside the ubiquitous triangle of chasing arrows.) But the numbers are not regulated federally; 39 states have various rules, so what you see can be inconsistent. “The plastics industry has put the recycle symbol on everything,” says Marti Matsch of Eco-Cycle, in Boulder, Colorado. “People think the symbol means the item is recyclable, but that’s not always true.” More than a tool for recycling, “the symbol identifies what a certain plastic is made of,” Christman says.
Here, a cheat sheet.
- No. 1: Polyethylene terephthalate (PET, PETE), the most widely recycled plastic, is used for soft-drink bottles and is also commonly found in textiles, which explains why a bottle can be turned into fleece.
- No. 2: High-density polyethylene (HDPE) is used for detergent bottles and grocery bags.
- No. 3: Polyvinyl chloride (PVC or vinyl) is what salad-bar containers are made from.
- No. 4: Low-density polyethylene (LDPE) is used for dry-cleaning and fresh-produce bags.
- No. 5: Polypropylene (PP) iswhat makes bottle caps, yogurt cups, and drinking straws.
- No. 6: Polystyrene (PS) is also known as Styrofoam.
- No. 7: These “other” plastics, such as polycarbonate baby bottles, are generally not recyclable at most centers.
Read Full Article: http://www.realsimple.com/home-organizing/green-living/recycling-refresher-course-00000000007102/index.html
