This from the Cape Fear chapter for the Surfrider Foundation, maybe inspired by a story we linked to here earlier about an earlier cleanup (Cool crew cleans mountains of junk on Masonboro).
Reducing Trash on Masonboro Island
If you have some spare time this holiday weekend, please volunteer it towards this effort. We are passing on this […]
“This would rank up there as one of the more bizarre calls that I’ve ever received in my 10 years with the district attorney’s office,” New Hanover DA Ben David said of this story, in which the mother of a man whose body was discovered three days ago, dispatched apparently by natural causes, is discovered […]
Carolinas Cement Company (Titan) to host three community information workshops in September and October
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 12, 2008
CONTACT:
Kate McClain
Corporate Communications
kmcclain@titanamerica.com
(757) 858-6517
WILMINGTON, N.C. - Carolinas Cement Company will host three community
information workshops this fall, announced Kate McClain, corporate
communications manager for Titan America LLC. Carolinas Cement Company is
undergoing due diligence to receive state and federal permits for […]
(Just not our local yet.) Kind of a neat idea by a group in San Francisco, with a video that shows how successful it was and how easily it might be scaled up — or used in areas like ours:
Carrotmob Makes It Rain from carrotmob on Vimeo.
The group shown here, carrotmob, whose name from the […]
Cliff Cash, who owns Green Coast Recycling and participates with me in the Stop Titan project, is such a mensch! Dude went with his buddy Captain Jack, who runs one of those party pontoons you see around here in the summer, and cleaned 1400 pounds of trash off the party side of Masonboro Island the […]
Shoot! I missed Wilmington’s Critical Mass again. It was last Friday, and happens on the last Friday of every month, though according to a post on local bike site sirbikesalot.com, it may be losing some of its steam.
RALEIGH – Results of ongoing disease and food investigations conducted by state public health and state agriculture officials have triggered a recall of jalapeno peppers and avocados distributed in North Carolina. Two samples from a food distributor tested positive for salmonella.
The N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (NCDA&CS) has asked a […]
From the Southern Environmental Law Center:
Chapel Hill – Environmental organizations will sue Duke Energy Carolinas today over Duke’s construction of a new coal-fired power plant at the Cliffside Steam Station that was not designed to meet legal limits on its emissions of hazardous air pollutants, such as mercury, arsenic and dioxins. The lawsuit will […]
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