Archive for February, 2009
Applications Accepted For Earth Day
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — The Town of Chapel Hill will present the second annual Earth Action Day Celebration from 12 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 18, on the grounds of University of North Carolina’s Morehead Planetarium & Science Center, 250 East Franklin St.This community celebration will provide an opportunity for sustainable [...]
Central Carolina Touts Green Leadership
By Katherine McDonald
News & Feature Writer
Central Carolina Community College
PITTSBORO – The United States is taking on an ever-deepening green hue – “green “ as in Earth-friendly farming, energy production, and construction. Green is spreading and growing, even into areas such as tourism and culinary arts.
Central Carolina Community College knows about green. Its nickname is “Green [...]
Chatham Expands Plastic Bottle Recycling
PITTSBORO, N.C. —The Chatham County Waste Management Department has announced that recycling of mixed plastic rigid bottles will be expanded to each of its 12 collection centers in the county, effective March 2,, 2009. This ensures that the county complies with a state ban on #1 to #7 rigid plastic bottles in landfills.
The collection centers [...]
Morrisville Company Gets EPA Grant To Study Fast Food Grills
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency awarded $1.6 million in contracts to 23 small companies to assist their efforts to bring promising new green technologies to market.
This award is part of EPA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, which helps small business throughout America develop technologies that are more protective of our air and [...]
Gore, Clinton Headline Energy Conference
WASHINGTON (AP) – Former Vice President Al Gore warned Monday against allowing lower oil prices to stall efforts to put a price on heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions to combat climate change
and reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil.
Gore, the Nobel prize winner who has focused on global warming since losing the presidency in 2000, told a [...]
State Board Goes Green
RALEIGH, N.C.- Green initiatives will be the topic of discussion when the State Board of Community Colleges convenes for its monthly meeting this week in Raleigh.
The meeting begins on Thursday with an issues luncheon and is followed by committee meetings. The full board meeting will take place Friday at 9 a.m. in the State Board [...]
Area Green Companies Await Stimulus Package
By Chris Cowperthwaite
NBC17
As President Barack Obama prepares to sign the $787 billion stimulus package, businesses on the forefront of the green movement are preparing to be busier.
The plan includes more than $42 billion in energy related programs, including tax credits, loans and grants.
It also has $20 billion earmarked for new green jobs related to wind [...]
Manufacturers Take Up Challenge to Recycle TVs
Washington, D.C. – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is challenging electronics retailers and television manufacturers to increase the collection and responsible recycling of discarded TVs.
Americans discarded nearly 27 million TVs in 2007 and an additional 99 million piled up in closets, basements, and garages. Recycling TVs helps to conserve natural resources and reduce energy [...]
NC Group Looking For Energy Nominations
RALEIGH, N.C. – Nominations will be accepted through March 13 for the Leadership in Sustainable Energy Awards, which are presented annually at the N.C. Sustainable Energy Conference to entities and individuals that have made an outstanding contribution in helping North Carolina achieve its sustainability goals.
The awards will be presented at the sixth annual conference, which [...]
Global Warming: Fact or Fiction?
By Larry Clark
Media General News Service
HICKORY – The Earth is getting warmer. No argument there. Science is in collision over whether it’s a portent of global crisis.
Dr. William H. Schlesinger says man-made carbon dioxide has the Earth and humanity plummeting toward catastrophe.
Dr. John R. Christy says otherwise. Climate change is cyclic and the dire predictions [...]
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