With NC State providing technical and research guidance for the state on many environmental policies, the moniker “city of oaks”, greenways, stormwater remediation efforts, #2 state for solar, and city within a forest ideas, I really would love for Raleigh and the triangle in general to fully jump on board with branding as the clean tech/green capital of the east coast. The city should be planting trees and indigenous plants all over the place with innovative stormwater/rainwater usage.
My father’s company helped change NC plumbing code to allow rainwater to be plumbed inside homes for toilet flushing and we built a home in 2007 that included this. We also installed rainwater harvesting at NC State tennis courts, and there are a number of very well known researchers from this area making strides in biological water treatment. We need to build the southern gateway net zero building and use that as the beacon for all this momentum. See also: