I am all for lending my fellow brother a helping hand, but not if my brother expects the handout without making the necessary changes needed to prevent further bailouts. For months, citizens of Chapel Hill/Carrboro have bit the bullet and took necessary action to conserve water during the drought. As we watched our gardens wilt and our vehicles dust over, our Durham neighbors still washed their cars and hand-watered their lawns. We silently noted the limited supply of our Farmer's Markets while still supporting our struggling farmers, and while we grew impatient with the restrictions, we gain perspective every time we passed a sign in town reminding us to conserve. Perhaps the rumors are true, and Carrboro/Chapel Hill is the hippie,green cousin of our Durham city, and therefore able to embrace green incentives easier, but as they laughed at our progressiveness, Durham held out a bucket and asked for us to fill it up. Our supply is still barely half full, and OWASA is upholding Stage 3 restrictions, but my patience is wearing thin for my Durham neighbors when I see a gas station car wash being used in Durham that is not using recycled water!
Please
join the Triangle Chapter EGB and
East West Partners as we talk about the East 54 community development
project in Chapel Hill. East 54 is currently under construction as one
of the only LEED-ND pilot participants in North Carolina. East West
Partners will be discussing the LEED-ND rating system, which credits
they are incorporating into East 54, as well as any challenges they
have faced while designing the project.
Congratulations to Patrick McDonough for posting the 30,000th comment on OrangePolitics! He has earned a free drink at OP's spring happy hour on March 26th. I hope to see many of you there.
My name is Nick Auten. I am a Carrboro resident
and am a volunteer for the Hampton Dellinger Lieutenant Gubernatorial
campaign in Orange County. Today, many of us will have our
precinct meetings that will kick off our collective preparation for the
2008 Primaries on May 6th. I am very excited and optimistic for
the advancement of progressive policies at a federal, state, and local
level this election cycle!
We
have some good Democratic
candidates to choose from for the Lt. Governor's race. I would
like to give you some weblinks that have some content about
Hampton Dellinger for you to read and also tell you about some
organizations that
feel the same way that I do about his candidacy: that Hampton Dellinger is the most
electable progressive on the ticket.
Al Gore supports Dellinger's environmental stances: http://www.charlotte.com/politics/story/491485.html
It's that time of year again, the sweet smell of campaigns are starting to fill the air. The Sierra Club will be hosting a forum on environmental issues for Orange County Commissioner candidates on Monday, March 17th at 7pm in Carrboro Town Hall. Members of the public are invited to attend, though it will be televised if you are unable to make it.
Because I get a number of questions regarding the process the Sierra Club takes to endorse local candidates, I wanted to explain exactly what it is we do to make our decisions. Rather than put you to sleep with a long written explanation, I took to my webcam and tried to describe the process as best I could. Enjoy by clicking "read more" below.
Curious to know if anybody on here wants to join in with WILPF/UNC or organize Orange Politics own form of demonstration. It's time to take a stand and not let another year of this war slip through the cracks.
I just got back from Tucson and dropped by Weaver Street Market today for groceries. While the bright white arrows directing traffic seem useful, Carr Mill Mall's new approach to territory does not.
As I got out of my car, one of the guards lectured three
twenty-something people on where they could and could not go. As they
looked somewhat nervous and a little confused, he explained that their
parking space belonged to "this building" and they could only go in
"this building" and if they crossed the street or crossed the lot, he
would be watching them and he would know and he would tow them. No
question about it. If they strayed across that parking lot, there was a
towing in their future.
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