Climate and Environmental Action

I am a stalwart advocate of renewable, regenerative energy, solar and wind, electrification, transitioning from all fossil fuel vehicles to EV vehicles.

I strongly urge the localized development of energy micro-grids and micro-grid sharing based on renewable, regenerative energy.

• Climate Reality Project Leadership Corps: Atlanta Training, Mentor

• Climate Reality Orange County, NC Chapter co-founder

• NC Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ) Secretary's Environmental Justice and Equity Advisory Board

• Serve as a Council Liaison to the Environmental Advisory Board.

• Serve as a Council Liaison to the Community Action Climate Task Force

• A Council Liaison to the Carrboro Community Climate Action Plan Task Force

• Initiated and co-authored the inclusion of two sections of language for the Community Climate Action Plan recommendations - Ecosystem: Tree Preservation, Conservation and Protection and Food Choice Measures.

• Carrboro Community Climate Action Plan educational outreach presentation module curriculum designer and coordinator.

• Advocated the establishment of a Carrboro Stormwater Authority, hiring a Stormwater Director and creating a Stormwater Advisory Commission. All of these initiatives are being implemented. 

• Co-designed the Greenways Summit for community input on the mission and work of a greenway commission.

• Established the Greenways Commission to advise the Board of Aldermen on greenway master planning, design and implementation.

• Worked with Town of Carrboro staff and the Friends of Bolin Creek on the McDougle Middle School Rain Garden and Catchment demonstration project.

• Speaker and participant at the “Can We Heal Our Local Waterways?”  Symposium, sponsored by Friends of Bolin Creek, the UNC Institute for the Environment, and Chapel Hill 2012.

• Initiated the creation of the Carrboro Council OWASA Sub-Committee, in response to to concerns for water quality, safety, protection conservation, and supply. 

• A certified environmental educator, I advocate tight stormwater management regulations, expanded riparian buffers and creek restoration.

• As an early advocate of solar power, I led a model-solar initiative for the use of solar lighting in the Town Commons. Through the work of the Council solar panels were installed on the roofing of the Town Commons in 2012.

• Worked with Solarize Carrboro on the development and expansion of a community solar program providing discounts for residents installing solar paneling.

• Longstanding advocate for a Town of Carrboro Comprehensive Plan - now in process: Carrboro Connects, to ensure balance and scale in land development, redevelopment use, preservation and conservation of natural, open and green space.

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