Environment
Date:
Saturday, April 16, 2011 - 1:00pm to Sunday, April 17, 2011 - 5:00pm
The Duke Energy/Progress Energy proposed merger: What difference will it make for clean energy and climate change?
Hear from Pete MacDowell, program director of NC WARN.
Date:
Tuesday, March 15, 2011 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Location:
Chapel Hill Public Library, 100 Library Dr.
Come to this week's Internationalist weekly movie screenings to learn
about the environmentally devastating Tar Sands, brought to you by
local Croatan Earth First!.
Deep behind-the-scenes into the strip-mined world of Alberta, Canada,
where the vast and toxic Tar Sands deposit supplies the U.S. with the
majority of its oil. Through the eyes of scientists, 'big oil'
officials, politicians, doctors, environmentalists, and aboriginal
citizens directly impacted by 'the largest industrial project on the
planet today,' the filmmakers journey to both sides of the border to see
the emotional and irreversible toll this 'black gold rush' fueled by
America's addiction to oil is taking on our planet.
Watch the trailer here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/video/2010/mar/18/dirty-oil-film-trailer
For more on the film visit http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1486642/
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Date:
Thursday, January 20, 2011 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Location:
Internationalist Books and Community Center, 405 W. Franklin St. Chapel Hill
UNC press release via Sierra Club mailing list:
CHAPEL HILL -- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Solar Energy Research Center is holding a public forum and information session on renewable energy issues and needs.
The free event, "Putting Solar Energy in [Its] Place," will be Jan. 14 at the William and Ida Friday Center in Chapel Hill.
The event begins at 5 p.m. with interactive displays, videos and posters from university, government, non-profit and business representatives.
From 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., an open discussion with a panel of experts will consider the promise, problems and alternatives for solving the world's energy and climate problems.
The forum will address the science, policy and economics of renewable energy. Both the displays and the discussion session offer attendees opportunities to learn and talk informally with experts about different forms of solar energy and other alternative power sources, such as wind, nuclear, natural gas, biofuels and clean coal. Other topics include public policy issues, investment, storage and smart grid technologies, conservation and energy efficiency.
Scheduled panel speakers include Thomas J. Meyer, center director and Arey Professor of Chemistry in the UNC College of Arts and Sciences; U.S. Rep. David Price, D-Chapel Hill; and Olee Joel Olsen, founder and managing director of O2 Energies, a North Carolina-based solar power plant development and consulting company.
The public forum is part of the center's third annual scientific conference, "Solar Fuels: Catalysis and Photoconversion," which takes place Thursday, Jan. 13 and Friday, Jan. 14. The symposium is sponsored and organized by the UNC Energy Frontier Research Center, a U.S. Department of Energy-funded center that focuses on solar fuels and next generation photovoltaics. The conference's principal co-sponsor is the Research Triangle Solar Fuels Institute, with additional support provided by the UNC Institute for Advanced Materials, Nanoscience and Technology the UNC Institute for the Environment, Progress Energy, Duke Energy and the North Carolina Biotechnology Center.
Read more: The Herald-Sun - The dollars and sense of energy
Date:
Friday, January 14, 2011 - 12:00pm
Every year when the piles of leaves appear along the side of the streets my family has to suffer through my complaints about the absurdity of this practice. I thought I'd post this blog entry to share the joy.
Generally speaking, if your yard is big enough to need raking, it's big enough for a pile for the leaves to sit and compost. My yard is approximately 0.2 acres and every year I rake the leaves into piles underneath the trees and bushes where they sit and compost. After a day or two or after the first good rain the leaves stop blowing around and I can forget them while they protect the tree roots from cold weather and decompose into new soil.
This board often discusses possible reductions in town expenses. Though it is a small line item, seems like someone should pick up the pen and line this one out. Am I missing something? Why should we not just stop the seemly silly process of sending out trucks and personnel to pick up leaves?
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