WRP Recent Media Events

• Reducing Farming’s Carbon Footprint, 10/11 - WRP assists Gaia Herbs with an energy audit supported by the NC Farm Bureau.

• Seven Tribal Buildings Targeted for 30% Energy Consumption Reduction, 10/11 - Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians receives funding to implement facility energy upgrade projects identified by WRP assessments.   / Site link

• Climate Corps Fellows Aid Implementation of the EBCI’s Strategic Energy Program, 10/11 - WRP Energy Engineer, Bob Gilbreath, serves as technical mentor to Climate Corps Fellows.  / Site link

• For the Love of Schools, PreservationNation, 2/11

• Watching our Wasteline - The Herald-Sun, 3/11

• Volunteers Stretch Utility Dollars Through Waste Reduction Partners, AARP Bulletin, 12/1/10

• Putting Green in Your Pocket - Business North Carolina, 11-10

• Green Living:  Group helps nonprofits reduce waste, energy costs - Greater Wilmington Business Journal, 10-8-10 

• Green Advisors:  Waste Reduction Partners helps Asheville-area organizations save money in environmentally friendly ways.  Citizen-Times, 9-12-10

• Asheville, Buncombe Schools Become Green - WRP engineers are assisting the schools under the Reading, Riding and Retrofit initiative

• Madison County Schools Find the Tools for Efficiency by Larry Schwake, WRP Assessor.  WNC Green Building internet site 

• Western North Carolina Program Separates Ash for Commercial Sustainable Use, Ash at Work magazine, Issue 2 2009 

• Ron Miller, led a WRP team of assessors that conducted energy assessments and wrote a State Energy Plan for Asheville City Schools.  Watch this video of the presentation made to the Asheville School Board regarding these assessments.

• WRP Assessor, Richard Burke, was recently interviewed on WNCW radio regarding recycling efforts in Rutherford County.  Click on the link to hear the interview.

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