Sustainable Foothills

09/28/2015

Learn how to grade, lay out and amend the soil in your rain garden to support your plants

09/18/2015

Appalachian students from the Department of Sustainable Technology & the Built Environment and the Walker College of Business are taking over!

This Friday, September 18, from 8:00 am - 5:00 pm, everyday parking spaces on campus and in the community will be transformed into SOCIAL PLACES as part of International PARK(ing) Day.

PARK(ing) Day (http://buff.ly/1Ygn7EG) is an annual opensource global event where citizens, artists, and activists collaborate to temporarily transform parking spaces into temporary public places. The project began in 2005 with a single installation by Rebar Group in San Francisco and has since become a global movement.

In its inaugural year at Appalachian State, PARK(ing) Day presented students with two unique project challenges:

- Building Science and Social Entrepreneurship students are raising public awareness for local to global social causes in the community, ranging from traffic and housing to water quality and misleading food labeling

- IDEXlab (Integrative Design Experience Laboratory) students are creating "pop-up" outdoor classrooms on campus

So swing on by the PARKs this Friday (see map) and support a cause or witness (and participate in) an alternative classroom experience!

09/18/2015

Faculty on a mission: http://bit.ly/1Ecs9eL

09/18/2015

09/17/2015

Vice President Biden was among many national clean leaders present today for one of the largest research funding announcements ever made by our SunShot Initiative. The Energy Department announced more than $100 million in new research funding at the Solar Power International conference in Anaheim, , to further drive down costs so more Americans can . Learn about these new projects and available funding to improve the reliability and predictability of solar energy, cut red tape limiting solar access, and develop new tools and services: http://go.usa.gov/3eVYT.

09/17/2015

NCCGP is a statewide community garden network. NCCGP advocates for community gardens

09/17/2015

A number of significant projects are now blending solar energy and battery storage at the utility scale.

09/17/2015

After just two Saturdays of Wolfpack football, more than 70 bags of food waste and compostable materials have been collected at Carter-Finley Stadium during NC State home football games. A partnership […]

05/21/2015

A new Energy Department report released today details how next-generation turbines have the potential to unlock additional wind in all 50 states. For low to moderate wind-speed regions, including the and parts of the , the United States can more economically and efficiently add wind at greater heights above the ground where wind speeds are consistently higher. Learn more on the EERE Blog: http://go.usa.gov/38VpJ.
Pictured below is General Electric's “space frame” towers that are as tall as 139 meters – one example of the taller wind turbines that will unlock more wind resources.

05/21/2015

Blue Sphere Corp., a clean energy company that develops, manages and owns waste-to-energy projects, announced it has acquired 4 fully operational...

05/21/2015

New panels could have a 34% energy conversion rate