Check out the recent media mentions of sustainability-related programs, practices, people at UNC:
NC’s Campus Y planting seeds for sustainable future
The Chapel Hill News
Campus Y, the social justice center of the UNC campus, has begun raising money for a $10 million to $15 million endowment. The endowment, which would be the Y’s largest in decades, would provide seed capital for its new Social Innovation Incubator, and create a new faculty position and social entrepreneur in residence position. Learn more »
N.C. 54 light-rail plan based on cost, riders, development
The Chapel Hill News
Regional leaders weighed their options for more than 15 years before choosing N.C. 54 for a proposed light-rail corridor connecting Orange and Durham counties. ...The 17.3-mile N.C. 54 route links UNC and UNC Hospitals with Duke University and its medical center – both counties’ biggest employers. Environmental concerns exist about the wetlands along N.C. 54, but there’s a route around them. The corridor also has large undeveloped tracts where homes, offices and businesses could grow around the light-rail stations, leaders said. Learn more »
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