From GoBlueRidge.net
Written by Adam Hicks Thursday, November 19 2009
Small businesses in Watauga, Mitchell, and Catawba County were three of 18 that received grant money from the state to continue their work in green initiatives.
According to Governor Bev Perdue’s office, High Country Green Box LLC in Boone was awarded a $97,989 grant. High Country Green Box is working on a green solution for the affordable housing crisis in North Carolina Repurposing “Standard International Shipping Units” that are currently being discarded, into energy-efficient modular housing units.
Highland Craftsmen Inc. in Spruce Pine was given a $31,985 grant to create a job training course that creates environmentally preferable building product supply chain encouraging the use of bark shingles from local, sustainably managed forests to be used as green building material.
SunQest, Inc. in Newton was awarded $50,718 in grant money to create a solar thermal enhancement and in state manufacturing commercializing a solar thermal system to heat residential, building, pool and other medium-temperature applications.
The Governor’s office said the grant money was made available through the federal recovery and reinvestment act and came through the N.C. Energy Office’s State Energy Program.
Source: GoBlueRidge.net
