Check out these recent UNC stories:
EPA renews UNC air quality modeling contract for $5.7 million
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Institute for the Environment has been awarded a $5.7 million contract with the Environmental Protection Agency to continue and expand their operation of the Community Modeling and Analysis System (CMAS) center.
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/2672/107/
‘Environmental Heroes’ to air on UNC-TV July 4
A documentary produced by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication science documentary television course will air Saturday (July 4) at 11 p.m. during the “North Carolina Visions” film festival on UNC-TV (North Carolina Public Television).
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/2675/74/
Students to document water program
The Chapel Hill Herald
Five UNC students are traveling to the other side of the world July 2-31 to document on film the impacts of the work of WaterPartners, a nonprofit organization with its roots in North Carolina that empowers people in developing countries to gain access to clean water.
http://heraldsun.southernheadlines.com/orange/10-1176061.cfm
Business interns after the new green
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Lindsay McCombs has a summer internship that shows a different face of capitalism. Instead of taking the usual route -- corporate finance, investment banking, or marketing -- the UNC-Chapel Hill business student will spend her summer as an energy conservation consultant for Grubb Properties, a real estate management firm in Raleigh. She's one of 26 MBA students nationwide, including three in the Triangle, who are advising businesses for 10-week stints on how to cut costs by cutting energy waste. The Climate Corps summer internship program was created by the Environmental Defense Fund and is in its second year, attracting students who want to have energy expertise on their résumés.
http://www.newsobserver.com/business/story/1576442.html
'Green Plus' businesses recognized
The Chapel Hill Herald
UNC's Institute for Sustainable Development has recognized two Research Triangle region businesses as Certified Green Plus: Bland Landscaping of Apex and Zemo Trevathan & Associates of Chapel Hill. ...The overall business plan for Green Plus was commissioned by UNC Chapel Hill Vice Chancellor Tony Waldrop in 2007. The Center for Sustainable Enterprise at UNC's Kenan-Flagler School of Business developed the plan, and a partnership of UNC, Duke, and chambers of commerce built and tested the program with small businesses in North Carolina and Ohio in 2008.
http://heraldsun.southernheadlines.com/orange/10-1173268.cfm
Local high school students to experience "green" summer camp on UNC campus
UNC News
Two dozen high school students from Chapel Hill and Carrboro are taking part this week in “Climate LEAP,” a climate change and energy workshop on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus. During the week-long workshop, designed by the UNC Institute for the Environment’s Environmental Resource Program, students will take part in hands-on activities such as experiments, computer data modeling and games.
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/2638/74/
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