Category Archives: Sustainability

Botanical Garden goes platinum!

January 31, 2011 – 1:21 pm

Platinum is as good as it gets. Ask any musician whether he’d rather have a gold record or a platinum one. The same is true when it comes to awards for environmental design. When you’ve designed, built and operated a building for a year, and it meets the highest standards of the U.S. Green Building [...]

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The best thing about being chancellor

November 10, 2010 – 9:44 am

People often ask me to tell them the best thing about being chancellor. It’s getting letters like this for stuff like this. Our students and staff really did us proud on energy management at Morrison. Rock on with your solar panels, people!

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Tar Heel footprint getting smaller

November 1, 2010 – 8:48 am

At Carolina, we’re proud of the tar on our heels. But the carbon on our footprint is not something to brag about. Because of the dedication of Tar Heels all across campus, I’m pleased to say that we are making great strides toward reducing that carbon footprint. Earlier this month, our latest greenhouse gas inventory [...]

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