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NC GreenPower has a number of opportunities to educate North Carolina citizens on our program.
We hope you'll sign up today to be an NC GreenPower volunteer Speakers Bureau member!
Email the Green Team at: speaker@ncgreenpower.org to sign up for event updates.

NC GreenPower is a part of more than 100 events each year. Thinking about volunteering
as a member of our Speakers Bureau? Visit our events calendar and sign up to volunteer today.
We offer free trainings throughout the year and across the state.

We had more than 70 people express interest in staffing at the NC State Fair last year, and most of those were new volunteers. A HUGE thank you to everyone who helped to make the event so successful. The 2010 NC State Fair is fast approaching and we need your help! If you are interested in staffing this year, please contact Katie or Jon by sending an email to: speaker@ncgreenpower.org

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6th Annual Tradeshow for the N.C. Building Industry

McKimmon Center, NC State University, Raleigh, NC
Thursday, September 9, 2010

Tradeshow open 9am - 5pm
Luncheon at Noon with Featured Speaker Bill Reed

The GreenNC Tradeshow is back at NC State University's McKimmon Center for our 6th annual event. The tradeshow has had great success in its first five years and will now fill the entire McKimmon Center. We will continue to highlight both commercial and residential communities with separate exhibit areas, and attendees will have access to all exhibitors. More than half of the booth spaces are reserved for the green commercial building industry, which even during these slow economic times has been experiencing increasing interest and demand. Come join us as an attendee or an exhibitor and become part of green building in North Carolina and the Southeast.

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Green up!

Are you STILL buying plastic bottled water?

Did you know? Americans spend $7 billion dollars on these things that are only used once…
Ban plastic bottles in your home, and purchase aluminum or BPA-free bottles for each family member.
Invest in a good water filter, too!
You can take your plastic bottle caps - or any hard plastic lid - to any Aveda store.
In 2006, Pacific Institute estimated the production of bottling water produced more than 2.5 million tons of carbon dioxide.
Producing bottles for American consumption required the equivalent of more than 17 million barrels of oil, not including transportation.
It requires 3 times as much water to make a disposable plastic water bottle as it does to fill it...
60 million plastic bottles a day are disposed of in America alone!
That's about 2.5 million bottles added to landfills every hour.
Last year, Americans went through about 50 billion plastic water bottles. Bring a reusable bottle with you!
Don’t like the taste of tap water? Buy a filter. (Remember, most bottled water sold today is filtered tap water anyway…)
The amount of glass bottles Americans throw away every two weeks would have filled both World Trade Center towers.

Look for these tips and MORE online - just click below to join one of our social networks!

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You can now sort columns for each of our 350+ generators. Take a look below!

PROGRAM UPDATE:
August 2010
Total subscribers* as of July 30: 12,451

Monthly Renewable Energy Blocks: 24,015
Total annual generation: 28,818,000 kWh
Monthly Carbon Offset Blocks: 524
Total annual offset: 3,144,000 lbs. CO2
Annual equivalent trees planted: 4,854,698

*All numbers reflect current utility reporting to date.

Current generators:
Wind – 6
Landfill methane – 2
Small hydroelectric – 1
Large Solar photovoltaic (PV) – 13
Small Solar photovoltaic (PV) –331
Total Solar photovoltaic (PV) – 344

Total Generators – 353

*Check out our more than 50 new project photos online!

What if NC GreenPower earned a donation every time you searched the Internet? Or how about if a percentage of every purchase you made online went to support our cause?

GoodSearch.com is a new Yahoo-powered search engine that donates half its advertising revenue, about a penny per search, to the charities its users designate. Use it just as you would any search engine, get quality search results from Yahoo, and watch the donations add up!

And if you download the GoodSearch NC GreenPower toolbar, our cause will earn money every time you shop and search online - even if you forget to go to GoodShop or GoodSearch first! Add the NC GreenPower toolbar at http://www.goodsearch.com/toolbar/nc-greenpower-green-power

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6th Annual Tradeshow for the N.C. Building Industry

McKimmon Center, NC State University, Raleigh, NC Thursday, September 9, 2010

Tradeshow open 9am - 5pm Luncheon at Noon with Featured Speaker Bill Reed

McKimmon Center, NC State University, Raleigh, NC
Thursday, September 9, 2010

Tradeshow open 9am - 5pm
Luncheon at Noon with Featured Speaker Bill Reed