Check out the recent media coverage of sustainability-related programs and practices at UNC:
Researchers study indoor air pollution
The National (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates)
If you think you can avoid air pollution by staying indoors, think again. ...“It is an effort to find out what is happening to the population in the last 40 years as urbanisation has increased,” said Dr Karin Yeatts, an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr Yeatts is heading a team of 68 researchers who will work in collaboration with the Environment Agency-Abu Dhabi and the UAE University’s department of community medicine.
http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091122/NATIONAL/711219876/1010
Town, UNC Seeking Bike Input
WCHL 1360-AM (Chapel Hill)
Carolina North will be connected to UNC by a bicycle route, but the school and the town of Chapel Hill are first getting public opinion on where to place that route at an open workshop. Mary Jane Nirdlinger, special projects coordinator for the town of Chapel Hill, says the discussion will focus on an effective and easy location for the route.
http://wchl1360.com/detailswide.html?id=12489
-Thanks to UNC News Services for finding these great stories AND compiling the summaries! You can find more UNC media coverage and stories online at:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/category/8/34/103/
