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Thursday, 13 October 2011 19:01

Chevy tabs Metrolina in green intiative

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Earlier this week, Chevrolet announced plans to invest $40 million in more than a dozen environmentally friendly projects across the country, in efforts to ultimately prevent eight million metric tons of carbon dioxide from entering the earth’s atmosphere over the next five years.

Metrolina Greenhouses in Huntersville will participate as one of Chevy’s 16 projects nationally. Plans there are to replace natural gas with renewable biomass — mostly waste wood — to heat greenhouses that grow Metrolina’s vast array of garden plants.

Ranging from wind farms to waste heat recovery to reforestation, the projects are all reported to be in their early stages. Carbon reductions from these projects will be gradual over the next five years. The projects must be reviewed and confirmed before the investment is completed.

Metrolina Greenhouses is a family-owned business founded in Huntersville in 1972, and is now the largest, single site heated greenhouse in the U.S.

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