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January 4, 2007 issue

A Year In Review: 2006 Shelter Cover Stories

Story by Sam Calhoun

On May 25, 2006, High Country Press—High Country News at the time—added a new section in the paper called Shelter. Devised as a weekly guide to homes and land, green practices and initiatives, lifestyles and living and businesses and services in the High Country, Shelter also was and is the new home of the growing classified section.

The front cover of Shelter in 2006 regularly contained the Business Spotlight column—a weekly feature on a local High Country business, its secrets and its owners—and a cover feature story.

These cover feature stories in 2006 often dealt with alternative energy initiatives such as biodiesel, hybrid technology and solar and wind energy, but also spanned to cover the hemlock wooly adelgid—a tiny insect threatening to wipe out the entire East Coast hemlock population—tobacco farming, hawk migrations, new home building, organic vegetable growing, composting, recycling, credit card debt and the controversy surrounding the Globe Project—a plan to timber harvest 231 acres in the Pisgah National Forest in the Blowing Rock viewshed.

Here’s a look back at those cover feature stories that graced the cover of Shelter over the past year.

 

Energy

  • Biodiesel, Hybrid Cars, and A Solar Christmas
  • Hybrid Cars and Alternative Fuels: The Future Is Here In The High Country
  • AppalCART, ASU Motor Pool Go Green by End of 2006: REI, ASU & AppalCART To Make Fleets Run on Biodiesel
  • AppalCART, ASU Motor Pool Go Green: ASU REI TO Host Ribbon Cutting at State Farm Road Physical Plant Facility This Friday
  • A Solar Christmas

 

Hemlocks

  • A Six Part Series
  • Going, Going, GONE? Can We Save Our Hemlocks From The Wooly Adelgid?

 

Green Things

  • The Growing Season of Fall, Composting and Tobacco Farming
  • The Growing Season of Fall: It’s Not Over Yet
  • Composting: Recycling Yard and Kitchen Waste While Reducing Garbage
  • Where Have All The Tobacco Fields Gone?

 

Clean Things

  • River Reconstruction, Big Sweep and Chimney Sweeps
  • Brushy Fork Environmental: Restoring the High Country, One Stream at a Time
  • North Carolina Big Sweep: Almost Two Decades of Environmental Stewardship
  • Chimney Sweeping: It’s More Important Than You May Think