Check out the recent media mention of sustainability-related programs, practices, and people at UNC:
N.C. Oil spill didn’t hurt seagrass-dwelling juvenile fish
Science News
Science News
...F. Joel Fodrie of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Kenneth Heck Jr. of the University of South Alabama Dauphin Island Sea Lab tallied numbers of juveniles retrieved by research vessels between mid-July and October 31, 2010. The abundance of these youngsters offered one gauge of whether eggs and larval fish had taken a big, deadly hit from early exposure to hydrocarbons spewed during the months-long spill.
UNC and Duke will read together
The News and Observer (Raleigh)
Tar Heels and Blue Devils are teaming up for this summer's reading assignment for incoming students. Both UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke have selected the book "Eating Animals" by Jonathan Safran Foer. New students are asked to read the book before arriving, then they will participate in small group discussions. Foer himself will speak at both campuses on Aug. 25.
Research campus, spared in budget cutting, will get leader
The Triangle Business Journal
The University of North Carolina System is searching for an executive director to lead its operations at the N.C. Research Campus. It will be the university system’s first administrative post dedicated to the Kannapolis biotech hub, which is focused on health, nutrition and agriculture.
Chapel Hill honored for WISE home energy effort
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
The Town of Chapel Hill received a U.S. Conference of Mayor's Climate Protection Award in the Small Cities Category for its success with WISE, a home energy efficiency incentive program. The honorable mention award was presented to Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt recently in Baltimore. The Chapel Hill WISEHomes and Buildings Program (Worthwhile Investments Save Energy) began in March and quickly reached its capacity with 125 homes registered to receive energy assessments and improvements.
Get help to turn your diet green
The News and Observer (Raleigh)
Triple-digit temperatures warming you up to the possibility of man-made climate change? If so, you might want to know that there's something you can do to help protect our planet. It hinges on your knife and fork. Your dietary choices make a difference, and collectively, the fewer meat and dairy products all of us eat, the greater the benefits to our environment. I've discussed this in previous columns. (Suzanne Havala Hobbs is a registered dietitian and a clinical associate professor in the department of health policy and administration in the Gillings School of Global Public Health at UNC-Chapel Hill.)
Thanks to UNC News Services for finding this great story AND compiling the summary! You can find more UNC media coverage and stories online at http://uncnews.unc.edu/.
