Greener Stock is in its infancy and has occupied its space in Columbia-Tusculum for a little more than two months. Seemingly on the other end of the spectrum but right across the street, Green Dog Cafe is the latest restaurant venture from owner/executive chef Mary Swortwood.  

I had an outside chance of wandering into a two-headed deer-cow hybrid that could fly. But I ventured onto the Fernald Preserve anyway. When I was growing up out in northwest Hamilton County, Fernald was like our own private Area 51 far away from Roswell, N.M. Now the former Fernald Uranium Processing Plant has gone from Super Fund cleanup site to a nature preserve complete with a refreshingly balanced and frank museum inside a $3 million visitors center.   

After winning three local design awards for its space, Emersion Design is celebrating the most important 'win' of them all: platinum certification by the U.S. Green Building Council. And they pulled it off for less money than a standard office space renovation.