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A food pantry goes off-grid as solar power for disaster resiliency spreads through WNC (opens the original)
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This coverage is made possible through a partnership between BPR and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. On a sunny morning in Marshall, Steve Porvaznik and Ryan Callahan, both electricians with the solar company Rhino Renewables, put the final touches on a solar installation. They drilled white covers over three batteries, each of which contains a nest of wires and conductors and is about three feet high. It’s the end of a week of installation at Beacon of Hope, a community hub
Solar micro grids going up in North Carolina to help storm prep (opens the original)
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When Hurricane Helene hit western North Carolina two years ago, it killed 108 people. It also left millions without power, some of them for months. Now, to try to become more resilient to future disasters, microgrids are popping up in public spaces where people often gather after storms. Katie Myers of Grist and Blue Ridge Public Radio reports. KATIE MYERS, BYLINE: Ryan Callahan is drilling a few screws into a panel in a back room of the Beacon of Hope Food Pantry in Marshall, North Carolina. RY
Helene disrupted thousands of jobs. Can North Carolina restore quality of life for the region’s workers? (opens the original)
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This coverage is made possible through a partnership between BPR and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. The tourism industry is one of the top sources of employment in Buncombe County. So when Helene caused everyone from nature guides to restaurant and hotel workers to lose months of work, not everyone returned when things calmed down. According to the North Carolina Department of Commerce, about 16,000 people left the workforce in the 16 hardest-hit counties of Western North C
Woodfin plastics company commits to help with debris cleanup, floodplain mapping (opens the original)
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This coverage is made possible through a partnership between BPR and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. A PVC pipe manufacturer in Woodfin is re-upping promises to help clean up plastics in the French Broad River. IPEX is giving environmental nonprofit MountainTrue $500,000 for debris cleanup. The company will also work with the town of Woodfin on an engineering study to address flood preparedness. In a separate study, the IPEX will also map the remaining plastic to the Tenness
Activists march on Costa Farms in Leicester to demand changes in working conditions (opens the original)
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This coverage is made possible through a partnership between BPR and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. On Tuesday, the day after Labor Day, a small band of activists marched past the gates of a sprawling plant nursery in Leicester, North Carolina, outside of Asheville. The sun beat down on rows of steamy greenhouses where workers moved through aisles of houseplants ready for sale. The activists were on their way to deliver a petition to Costa Farms, the world’s largest grower
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