Our friends at Surfers Healing are having a fundraiser to support their efforts to get autistic kids and their families out to the beach and on surfboards!
They do great things. Various times and details for the event in the flyer below:
Flyer (PDF)
Two weeks ago, NCDOT harvested these flowers – actually canola plants – with the aim of turning them into fuel for diesel engines. The plants are part of a pilot program with N.C. State University to research the feasibility of growing biofuel crops on highway rights of way
I just redid buddy Clifton Cash’s Green Coast Recycling website here, brought the domain over, the email. Sort of quick and dirty, but looks good:
http://greencoastrecycling.com
As the tag line says, this business is “Recycling done right”. I can’t name how many pro-bono cleanup projects the company has been involved in — fund raisers, beach cleans, Masonboro, [...]
Dave’s is great. Dave is an honest, Dr. Pepper-drinking German engine savant. He knows everything about your car and seems to care about it.
What a neat event! Friends sent these pictures of this last weekend’s Recycle Revival, which I missed.
The Riverfront Farmers’ Market will reopen for the season on Saturday, April 17. The market will be open every Saturday (except October 2 – Riverfest) from April 19 – December 18 from 8 am – 1 pm. in downtown Wilmington.
About the Market….
Established in 2004, the Riverfront Farmers’ Market is a [...]
The YWCA Lower Cape Fear would like to cordially invite people throughout our community to join us as we take a Stand Against Racism on Friday, April 30, 2010.
We are calling on organizations, corporations, schools, hospitals, houses of worship, and government agencies to become Participating Sites of this exciting event. By becoming a Participating Site, [...]
The North Carolina Arts Council has launched an online public survey to gather the opinions of New Hanover County and Wilmington-area residents on the role of the arts in the area and the importance of an arts council to the region.
The arts council seeks participants to complete the three-page online survey from now until March [...]
Press release from the city of Wilmington:
Beginning today, the city has opened a hotline for citizens to report
stormwater pollution. The hotline is another way the city is raising
awareness of the city’s new stormwater regulations, which went
into effect in November, 2009.
The new regulations outline what should not be discharged into the storm
drainage system, [...]
A press release from an organization being formed to bring law enforcement groups together around environment crimes. Interesting.
RALEIGH – The Honorable Ignacia S. Moreno, Assistant Attorney
General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division,
Department of Justice; the Honorable George E.B. Holding, United
States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina; Stacey
H. Mitchell, Chief of the Environmental [...]
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