EnergyXchange - A Renewable Energy Center
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Partial Solar Eclipse Viewing Event Thursday October 23rd 5:00 PM - 10:00 PM
In time for spring planting and landscaping, the EnergyXchange is currently holding a plant sale.
Friday Night Celestial Double Header!
Burnsville Stars on the Square star party and Camelopardalids Meteor Shower
by Bob Hampton
You can now place your order with the Project Branch Out Greenhouses at the EnergyXchange for rare and hard to find Gray's Lillies and several varieties of Lady Slipper orchids! These plants were tissue cultured at Mayland Community College and will mature in our greenhouses until they are ready for you to pick up by May 5th, 2013. These new items will be sold as "Bare Root" plants. For more information or to place an order, please call 828-467-5687.
We have 2 Clay Residencies & 1 Glass Residency opening in 2013! Glass Residency opens on September 1st, with applications due June 15th, and Clay Residencies open October 1st, with applications due May 15th. click HERE for more information
UNC-TV’s NC Rising, the On-Air Magazine interviews EnergyXchange’s staff and residents to learn how the landfill is put to use.
Artsee magazine reporter, Katie Bowler, and photographer, Donn Young, spent a beautiful spring day this past March learning about sustainable uses for landfill gases. Glass blower, Aaron Baigelman, was their guide; EnergyXchange, their yet-to-be explored territory.
The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design’s exhibition “WNC Models of Sustainability in Craft Making” features work by EnergyXchange residents Will Baker, Lisa Gluckin, Joy Tanner, and Michael Hatch through April 22 at the Center's gallery in Hendersonville, NC.
Governor Bev Perdue and Senator Joe Sam Queen visit the region and stop by EnergyXchange for a tour. Rumor has it that the last time a NC Governor toured the area was in the 1980s!
EnergyXchange Executive Director Dan Asher featured on 88.7 WNCW with Host Ned Ryan Doyle and the "Our Southern Community" radio program.