Environment
As part of our move to sustainable energy practices, the University is partnering with Orange County on a project to turn the landfill gas from the Orange County Landfill on Eubanks Road into energy. On Monday, October 13, from 7 - 8:30 p.m. Orange County will host an information meeting on the project at the Seymour Center at 2551 Homestead Road in Chapel Hill.
Landfills like the one on Eubanks Road produce landfill gas, created as the waste stored there decomposes. The landfill gas then escapes into the atmosphere and is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. This project would collect the gas and transport it to University property where it would be converted to electricity. This electricity would be used for power at the Giles Horney complex on Martin Luther King Boulevard and later for buildings at Carolina North.
This is an exciting project for the community. It is a great example of recycling a by-product of the landfill. Turning the landfill gas into electricity would move the University forward in its effort to become carbon neutral.
I have to say that besides Eubanks Road, Hillsborough (or of any of our municipalities) is about the worst place I can imagine putting our future waste transfer station. Apparently the two sites being looked at there are in an economic development zone. Unless they are planning for it to heavy industrial development, it doesn't seem like a good fit. (The DTH has a small graphic of the top 10 sites and Hillsborough's response to the two sites on their doorstep.)
These suggestions are so off the wall that I am wondering if they're preparing us for something really awful. I am ready for the Commissioners to get rid of the siting consultants and step up to take some responsibility for our county's garbage for a change.
Sorry this post is so short - I am running our the door to travel to a family gathering. Will be out of town until Tuesday night, but I will still be checking on y'all so behave! ;-)
From BolinCreek.org:
The 5th
Annual Bolin Creek Festival will be from 11am-5pm, October 4th at
Umstead Park in Chapel Hill. Featuring local artist Dale Morgan, music
by Club Boheme, Skeedaddle, Project Mastana—passionate Bollywood dance
music, and rhythm circles by the Music Explorium. Special activities
for children will include the introduction to stream critters and the
popular Enviroscape by the Chapel Hill Stormwater Office.
Date:
Saturday, October 4, 2008 - 7:00am to 1:00pm
Location:
Umstead Park, Chapel Hill
I was fortunate enough to be a scholarship participant on the Inter-City Visits to Madison and Ann Arbor. I thoroughly enjoyed both experiences, but I found that I am unable to stop comparing the Madison experience to the Ann Arbor experience.
This exercise, of course, is completely unfair. Mainly because, in my opinion, Madison wins. In everything. Hands down. Period. Ann Arbor doesn't stand a chance.
Madison has an abundance of natural beauty. It had a really great downtown that seemed accessable to both students and other people. It has the Overture Center, which always takes my breath away, and Madision is a hotbed for creativity and technology. It is so much what I want for Chapel Hill.
But Ann Arbor is different (duh). I didn't see anything particularly beautiful or extrodinary about it. Ann Arbor seems much more into function, rather than form. It ain't Madison, but it has its good parts.
Ann Arbor has fantastic elected leadership. Their mayor is dynamic and charismatic, and he seems to be the agent for getting a lot of really great stuff done in Ann Arbor. He has spearheaded Ann Arbor's environmental movement.
He has
Via Facebook:
BUY TICKETS ONLINE AT http://www.surgenetwork.org/leadership/tickets.html
Only $15 for students! ($25 general public)
Thursday, September 18th, 6pm
Carrboro Century Center
100 N. Greensboro St., Carrboro, NC
Come
help us celebrate the achievements of young leaders from around North
Carolina who have made significant contributions to the struggle for
justice in our communities.
This year's finalists are :
•
Chris Parker, Chapel Hill High School, is a leader of Chapel Hill High
School SURGE and worked to develop the Celebration of Earth and Sky and
campus biodiesel processor.
• Rosemary Johnson, Southern
Guilford High School, founded a student group to encourage dialogue
about gender, body image, and media representations of women.
•
Student Action with Workers (SAW), at UNC-Chapel Hill, led a three-week
long sit-in to demand that the UNC administration adopt a policy to
ensure that university-licensed products are made in factories that
respect workers rights.
• Feminist Students United (FSU),
UNC-Chapel Hill, led a series of campus discussions about gender,
heterosexism, and privilege.
• Andrew Zonderman, Duke
University, led Duke Students against Sweatshops' efforts to convince
Duke University to join the boycott of Smithfield Foods products.
•
Rosie Rangel, Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF), led a coalition of
rural Latino youth from migrant families in North Carolina.
•
iNSIDE oUT 180 creates safe environments for LGBTQ youth by providing
opportunities for them to express themselves and by educating the
broader community about LGBTQ issues.
More information and tickets online at http://www.surgenetwork.org
Don't forget to join the SURGE Facebook Group! http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=2207469071
Date:
Thursday, September 18, 2008 - 2:00pm
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