CHEROKEE, NC, October
23, 2007—Cherokee Preservation
Foundation (CPFdn) announced today
it is organizing a Nov. 13 tour of
sustainable energy sites in the region
for Cherokee business and community
leaders.
At the EnergyXchange
Renewable Energy Center in Burnsville,
trip participants
will see how a landfill has been used
to turn trash into treasure. Decomposing
garbage in the landfill fuels pottery
kilns, glass furnaces and a greenhouse
at this site that the Environmental
Protection Agency calls “a model
for landfill methane projects around
the country.”
Local leaders will
also visit the Jackson County Energy
Park in Dillsboro, where
methane gas is recovered from a landfill
to fuel blacksmithing forges, artisan
studios, greenhouses, and a biodiesel
refinery.
The group will also visit
Duke Energy’s
Thorpe Hydro Energy Site in Cullowhee.
The tour is the second
in a series of site visits that CPFdn
is organizing
to generate ideas and develop proposals
for CPFdn concerning new sustainable
energy programs from which the EBCI
and region may benefit. Green energy
programs are encompassed by the Foundation’s
focus on the environment; its other
areas of focus are cultural preservation,
economic development and job creation.
The
trip will begin at 8:30 a.m. and
conclude around 5 p.m. Transportation
will be provided by Cherokee Boys
Club,
and the bus will depart from the
Cherokee Boys Club parking lot. A limited
number
of seats are still available, and
anyone interested in participating
should
call Hwineko Walkingstick at Cherokee
Preservation Foundation at 497-5550
by November 7th.
