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Clean Stoves Can Save Lives

By On January 27, 2012 · Leave a Comment

The World Health Organization reports that around three billion people cook and heat their homes with an open fire that burns biomass such as wood and coal. That’s HALF of all people in the world! Nearly two million people die prematurely from illness attributable to indoor air pollution from household solid fuel use. [...]

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Is Orange County ready for Renewable Energy?

By On August 1, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Al Gore calls for “100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years.” What are our local governments doing to take this challenge and make it a reality locally?

This was originally a comment on a thread at OrangePolitics.org.

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Create Green-Collar Jobs in Orange County

By On August 1, 2008 · Leave a Comment

A few weeks ago I had the privilege of seeing Van Jones speak. He co-founded the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and is founder and president of Green For All. He spoke convincingly of a future of increased equality and how one of the roads to this future is green [...]

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Experimental Architecture to Save the Planet

By On July 6, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Another informative blog post from Tree Hugger. This one about the movie Garbage Warrior. WATCH this trailer.

What do beer cans, car tires and water bottles have in common? Not much unless you’re renegade architect Michael Reynolds, in which case they are tools of choice for producing thermal mass and energy-independent [...]

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Tell Jim Rogers to Cancel Cliffside!

By On February 22, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Recently Duke Energy received permission from the State of North Carolina to build a new coal fired power plant in Cliffside, North Carolina. Despite the facts that this new plant could be a major polluter of CO2, mercury, and evaporate 21 million gallons of water each day. You can find all the details here [...]

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North Carolina Drought 2008

By On February 13, 2008 · Leave a Comment

By now the bad drought the South Eastern United States is experiencing is old news. We are already in stage two [PDF] water restrictions here in Orange County, North Carolina. But today I found a map that blew my mind. North Carolina looks like the worst hit overall than any other state right [...]

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Enviro Friendly Electricity Generation Questions

By On January 6, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Here’s a video about environmentally friendly electricity generation. I have some questions and ideas. Might you have answers? (Seesmic the video community is rocking pretty hard).

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Its Smoky Outside

By On May 16, 2007 · 1 Comment

Smelled something odd this morning. Didn’t think anything of it. Then I got this email from the Town of Chapel Hill:

Smell smoke?

Due to the cold front passing through, the smoke from the Georgia wildfires has migrated to North Carolina. You may see a slight haze and smell smoke in the area from [...]

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Sierra Club NC has a blog

By On January 22, 2007 · 1 Comment

Welcome to blogging Sierra Club NC. Tom Jensen is the perfect person to help you with this effort. Thanks for joining us. We shall be reading.

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Snow in NC days after 70 degrees

By On January 18, 2007 · 3 Comments

What is going on? Last weekend here in Chapel Hill it was 70 degrees. Now we have a light, but sticky, covering of snow on the ground. Is this extreme weather related to Global Warming? Is this the effect of a El Niño on Global Warming?

One respected climate scientist who has gone [...]

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