Check out the recent media coverage of sustainability-related programs and practices at UNC:
U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to Stop Burning Coal in 10 Years
The Chronicle of Higher Education
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will spend the next decade weaning its cogeneration plant off coal, the university's chancellor, Holden Thorp, said Tuesday morning. He spoke at a campus event attended by Bruce Nilles, head of a Sierra Club campaign that has challenged colleges and universities to abandon coal. Universities "must lead the transition away from fossil fuels to clean energy," which in Chapel Hill's case could be a mix of biomass and other fuels, Mr. Thorp said.
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UNC plans to go coal-free, via 'woody biomass,' by 2020
The Chapel Hill Herald
In a major environmental decision Tuesday, UNC officials announced that the university plans to wean itself off of coal by spring of 2020. The university's goal is to replace coal with a "woody biomass" in the form of "dried wood pellets" and "torrefied wood," a product that is similar to charcoal. ..."Universities must lead the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy," Thorp said, noting that the transition won't be easy. "Today Carolina takes another big step in that direction."
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UNC to boot Old King Coal (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill Herald
In the environmental equivalent of the biblical David v. Goliath showdown, it appears that David won. Again. UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp made, what had to be for many green believers, a stunning announcement on Tuesday that the university was going to take an ecologically ethical lead in ending its use of coal as a fuel source by the year 2020.
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