Exhibitors
Energy & Community Resilience Fair (10/10/10)
Sponsors
Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy Companies
Other Businesses
Government & Education
Nonprofits
Transition Carrboro-Chapel Hill
www.transitioncch.org
Email: info@transitioncch.org
Transition has several action groups. Those participating in the 10-10-10 event were: Energy, Food, Transportation, Two-Way Street, and Garbage Reduction & Composting.
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Town of Carrboro
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ENERGY EFFICIENCY & RENEWABLE ENERGY COMPANIES
Energy Tribe
Email: Kerry Goodman
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Home Performance NC
Email: Adrienne Bashista
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HomeSmith
Email: Tom Smith
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JOCCA — Joint Orange Chatham Community Alliance
Email: Doug Dixon, tel. 919/542-4781
Performs free low-income weatherization in Orange and Chatham counties.
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Solar Consultants
Email: Tom Wills
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Sundogs Solutions
Email: Marc
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Kilowatt Ours (documentary shown continuously during the event thanks to Suzy Lawrence)
Filmmaker Jeff Barrie explores the source of our electricity and the problems caused by energy production. He encounters individuals, businesses, organizations, and communities who are leading the way, using energy conservation, efficiency and renewables, saving money and the environment.
Blunden Studio
Email: Giles Blunden
Sustainable architecture. Architect of Arcadia and Pacifica co-housing communities.
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Bountiful Backyards
Email: Chris Rumbley
Planting edible, beautiful backyards, school yards, etc.
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Box Turtle Bakery
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Clean Energy Solutions
Email: Steve Morgan or Emily Martin
Clean Energy Solutions, Inc. works for local governments, nonprofits, foundations and utilities to design and assist early implementation of comprehensive energy efficiency, renewable energy and water conservation initiatives promising significant reductions in carbon footprints, electricity demand, and energy use across all sectors.
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Cycle 9
Email: Elise Giddings
Retail store connects people with bikes for carrying stuff or people, stylish low-maintenance bikes, folders, commuters, comfort bikes and kids bikes. Experts on electrified cargo bikes.
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Flyleaf Books
Email: Jamie Fiocco
Chapel Hill’s independent bookstore, next to Fosters Market at 752 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
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Green Energy Lawn Care
Email: Mik and Jodi Beetham
919-338-2667
Quieter, cleaner lawn care. Electric mowers are recharged with solar panels. Truck miles are offset with NC GreenPower.
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NC Green Plumbing
Email: Pat Smith or Susan McDaniel
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Peck and Artisans
Email: Tim Peck
Artistic building design and construction, green plumbing.
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Pedicabs (Greenway Transit)
Email: Marc
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Twig
99 South Elliott Road in Chapel Hill (next to Whole Foods)
Email: Shawn Slome, 919/929-8944
An eco-friendly specialty shop offering practical and beautiful ways to bring high quality, earth friendly choices into your life.
Durham Tech Sustainability Technologies program
Email: Greg Mimmack
Provides training in the installation, repair, and upgrade of sustainable technology systems. In 2011, the college will introduce a Renewable Energy diploma. Beginning Fall 2012, students completing the Sustainability Technologies program earn an Associate in Applied Science degree.
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NC Solar Center at NC State University
Email: Anne Tazewell, Transportation Program Manager or Ty Gorman
The N.C. Solar Center began in 1981 with the creation of a solar house and now covers all renewable energy areas including solar, wind, and biomass. It has teams dedicated to high-performance buildings, clean transportation, economic development, and distributed generation. It also manages DSIRE, the Database of State Incentives for Renewables and Efficiency, a database of state, local, utility, and federal incentives that promote renewable energy and energy efficiency.
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Orange County Solid Waste
Email: Muriel Williman
Advocates for Carrboro Greenways
Email: Bruce Sinclair
Advocates for Carrboro Greenways is a group of citizens advocating for greenways in Carrboro which provide the following benefits for the community:
- Environmental preservation: including traffic mitigation and lowered reliance on fossil fuels.
- Safety: safe, off-road link to walk or ride bicycles to school and work.
- Recreation: encourage healthy, outdoor recreation.
- Access: provide year-round access for everyone in the community including people with disabilities, elderly and children.
- Community connector: connecting neighborhoods, parks, schools, community centers and commercial centers.
- Transit corridor: an attractive cross-town transit corridor which provides carbon-free transportation.
- Environmental education: a natural laboratory for children and adults to learn about nature.
- Scenic adventure: Providing natural scenic routes for relaxation and health.
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Eartheal
Email: Jane Norton
The mission of Eartheal is to educate and empower individuals to create environmentally, economically and socially healthy and sustainable lifestyles, organizations and communities now and for future generations through experiential education, community service projects and connection with and celebration of nature. Eartheal publishes the Community Green Guide.
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Greenpeace
Represented by Greenpeace local activist Harriet Whitehead
919-830-5481
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NC GreenPower
Email: Katie Shepherd
NC GreenPower is an independent nonprofit that collects voluntary contributions toward renewable energy and greenhouse gas mitigation. Its goal is to supplement the state’s existing power supply with green energy from the sun, wind, and organic matter. Individuals and businesses can contribute by signing up to buy $4 blocks of green energy when they pay their utility bills. NC GreenPower also offers carbon offsets to balance carbon released during driving or flying.
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North Carolina Interfaith Power & Light
Works with faith communities to address the causes and consequences of global climate change and promotes practical solutions through education, outreach, and public policy advocacy.
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Orange County Voice
Email: Bonnie Hauser
Community development organization that’s building awareness about our rural community. OCV advocates for development that enhances rural character and against the sprawl of unwanted municipal development, such as landfills and sludge, into our rural communities.
OCV supports waste-to-energy technologies as an alternative to outdated disposal technologies and as a source for clean, renewable energy.
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The Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association (RENA) and the Rogers-Eubanks Coalition to End Environmental Racism (CEER)
RENA has been around for decades, providing various kinds of support to the Rogers Road neighborhood. CEER was founded in 2007 to reverse the decision of the Orange County Board of County Commissioners to place a regional solid waste transfer station in the Rogers-Eubanks community, and to redress and reverse the injustices that affect the health and safety of residents in the neighborhoods which abut the landfill.
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Sierra Student Coalition
On Facebook
Email: Taylor Timmerman
A UNC student group that successfully lobbied UNC to completely phase out the use of coal by 2020 in their Beyond Coal campaign.
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Sustain Foundation
Email: Ellie Blake
Publishes maps of natural trails around Carrboro and Chapel Hill. Domestic and international programs promote community building, health, and education.
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Transition Durham
Email: Tom Fletcher
A sister organization to Transition Carrboro-Chapel Hill that is now being established.
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United Church of Chapel Hill, Earth Ministries Group
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(YOU(th) Involved in Keeping Earth Sustainable)
Non-profit organization based in Durham that fosters cross-generational community-based education and outreach to aid our society’s transition to renewable forms of energy and low-carbon lifestyles.
Email: Sandy Smith-Nonini
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