climate change
Join us for this third session of the Carrboro Planning Board's three-part fall forum series on community-scale energy use and climate change
In this session, we'll hear about and discuss:
- Climate Protection Planning in Carrboro (Randy Dodd, Town of Carrboro environmental planner)
- Solarize Orange County (Rob Pinder)
- Passive and Active Solar Energy Opportunities for Your Home, featuring an Interactive 3-D Model (David Clinton, architect and principal at Szostak Design Inc, and Planning Board member)
- Energy Conservation (John Hines, marketing representative of Piedmont Electric Membership Corporation)
- Base Hits, Strike Outs, and Home Runs: Twenty Renewable Energy Businesses I Have Loved (Lyle Estill, vice president of Piedmont Biofuels and serial entrepreneur)
We'll have light refreshments and plenty of time for questions and discussion. See you Wednesday!
Also:
- Chapel Hill Transit routes CW, F, and J stop in front of the ArtsCenter.
- There's a beautiful new bicycle corral at the ArtsCenter entrance.
- There's free car parking (and covered bicycle parking) in the 300 East Main parking deck.
Date:
Wednesday, November 5, 2014 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Location:
Carrboro ArtsCenter, 300 E Main Street, Carrboro
Leave it to Dan Coleman to finish on a strong note. Attending his last regular meeting as a member of the Carrboro Board of Aldermen, Coleman spoke about the dream of Carrboro, and he urged his colleagues and neighbors to seek out creative ways forward in a world of seemingly insurmountable challenges.
The Big Green Bus visits Carrboro
Monday, June 22 3-7pm
The bus will be parked here, a block from Weaver Street Market on Roberson Street, behind the Armadillo Grill and next to the Fire & Rescue Building.
Taking the all-American road-trip to the next level, 15 Dartmouth College students embark on a cross-country summer adventure to educate America about sustainability and green living. Dartmouth’s Big Green Bus, once a rag-tag creation of the university’s engineering and ultimate Frisbee communities, is unveiling a coach bus specially-converted to run on waste vegetable oil. This year’s bus has been transformed into a state-of-the-art “green” mobile classroom for sustainable living, suited for the more than 40 educational stops planned across the country.
For more information, see the Big Green Bus
website.
Date:
Monday, June 22, 2009 - 11:00am to 3:00pm
Join our discussion of Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond. This geographer recounts why past societies have failed and what we need to do to keep our society going. The Seattle Times writes, “Diamond’s most influential gift may be his ability to write about geopolitical and environmental systems in ways that don’t just educate and provoke, but entertain.”
Book Description:
Using a vast historical and geographical perspective ranging from Easter Island and the Maya to Viking Greenland and modern Montana, Diamond traces a fundamental pattern of environmental catastrophe—one whose warning signs can be seen in our modern world and that we ignore at our peril. Blending the most recent scientific advances into a narrative that is impossible to put down, Collapse exposes the deepest mysteries of the past even as it offers hope for the future.Date:
Tuesday, February 19, 2008 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Location:
Carrboro Cybrary, 100 N. Greensboro St., Carrboro
Focus the Nation is a national teach-in on global warming
solutions for America—creating a dialogue at over a thousand colleges,
universities, high schools, middle schools, places of worship, civic
organizations and businesses, and directly engaging millions of
students and citizens with the nation’s decision-makers. The students
at UNC signed onto this initiative in the fall of 2006 and have been
working since then to put together an event that will bring the
community together around this important discussion.
In support of the student effort, Orange County and the Towns of Chapel Hill and
Carrboro have officially proclaimed January 31, 2008 as Climate Change
Awareness Day.
Date:
Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 1:00am to 6:00pm
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