Project H Design � About

This link I found on Inhabitat - the green design blog. It reminded me of Full Belly Project. So, I posted it here. :)

Project H Design � About: "Product design initiatives for Humanity, Habitats, Health, and Happiness.

Project H Design is a charitable organization that supports, inspires, and delivers life-improving humanitarian product design solutions to global communities in need. We champion industrial design as a tool to address social issues, a vehicle for global life improvement, and a catalyst for individual and community empowerment."

UNCW: CAIC - Student Government

UNCW: CAIC - Student Government:

"'The Conservationist's most important task, if we are to save the earth, is to educate.'
-Peter Scott, founder of World Wildlife Federation



Awareness of sustainable living is changing the way we go about our daily activities. The Student Government Association of UNCW is hosting a conference for students from all across the state in an effort to encourage discussion on the topic. The inaugural Carolina Collegiate Conference on Sustainability will focus on ways for students to help their campuses and communities become more sustainable for future generations.



To be a part of the change, join us on Saturday, April 5, 2008."

Check out the link for more information on this event on the UNCW campus.

myabodo : see your world change

myabodo : see your world change

What is it? It's an interactive graphic that allows you change the choices around your home. -Like driving a hybrid car or drying clothes outside.

Why it's important? I think it's a very clear visual way to see the effects of our lifestyle / home choices.

check it out!

WWW.BIKEWILMINGTON.COM

Well, it's getting warm out and, having a free afternoon, I decided to leave the truck and take the bike to meet friends at India Mahal for lunch. It's the first time I tried to communte from my new place on Military Cutoff.

I took the short section of Wrightsville to Hooker and then through the endangered long leaf pine forests of UNCW. As I rode I thought of Anchorage and the wonderful bike paths... then I remembered seeing some construction along Eastwood drive on my drive to work. Hmmm - could this be the extension of the bike trail?

WWW.BIKEWILMINGTON.COM

I found this website for the Wilmington Urban Area Metropolitan Planning Organization, MPO for short. From the website:

What is the MPO?
The Wilmington Urban Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (WMPO) is the regional transportation planning organization which is made up of elected officials from each of the Wilmington area's local governments as well as the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT).

The WMPO facilitates the cooperative, comprehensive and continuing transportation planning process that serves as the basis for the expenditure of all federal transportation funds in the area for streets, highways, bridges, public transit, and bicycle and pedestrian facilities.

Every urban area with at least 50,000 people in the United States is required to have a similar organization. There are 17 MPOs in the state of North Carolina.

That's pretty cool. And the site has some great maps and etc. So I wonder when I can ride that path to work?

Rick Dove at the Feb. CFRW 1st Saturday

Feburary First Saturday Meeting at the Cape Fear RiverWatch HQ - Downtown Wilmington, NC

Doug Springer and Joe Abbate kick off the meeting with announcements. Everyone is happy because we had plenty of pancakes

Dixon, Rick and Doug were glad to see so many people supporting the RiverWatch and RiverKeeper organizations.

From the CFRW website:

Rick has been monitoring and documenting hog pollution and its effects on North
Carolina's Rivers for 14 years - from the ground, on the water and in the air.
No one is better qualified to speak about the devastating environmental problems
associated with industrial hog production.

His talk was inspirational and enlightening. He spoke about industrial hog farms and the chronic evironmental violations they commit against our community. Find out more about him at http://www.riverlaw.us/ and see a video of one of his talks in Alabama

Rick is championing a new program to monitor the hog industry pollution in Eastern North Carolina. This program is looking for volunteers to document the pollution by photographing violations (like illegeal spraying of lagoon waste) from airplanes and water sampling. Please be in touch with the Cape Fear RiverWatch at http://www.cfrw.us for more information.

Links:
Smithfield Foods on WikiPedia
The Meatrix - cartoon depictions of industrial food