SS Programs
AIR QUALITY
- Promoting innovative transportation and renewable energy projects to reduce emissions
AWARENESS & EDUCATION
- Bringing information about sustainable practices to the region
LOCAL FOOD & CULTURE
- Promoting local agriculture and cultural connections
GREEN BUSINESS
- Gaining commitment from local businesses to become more sustainable
GREEN LIVING & DESIGN
- Promoting sustainable living, design and construction practices
GREEN GROWTH
- Promoting coordinated and cooperative green growth planning
RECYCLING
- Promoting solid waste reduction, reuse and recycling
Awareness AND Education Program
Bringing information about sustainable practices to the region
"Sustainable Saturdays" Film Series
In partnership with The CAMEO Art House Theatre, 225 Hay Street in Fayetteville, Sustainable Sandhills is screening a series of films on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of each month at 11am. This series began in January 2011. Admission is typically $6 per person, or $5 for Sustainable Sandhills and CAMEO Film Society members. The Sustainable Saturdays series schedule is listed below:
- December 3 & 17 - Farmageddon
- November 5 & 19 - Queen of the Sun
- October 1 & 15 - Forks Over Knives
- September 3 & 17 - Mother Nature's Child
- August 6 & 20 - Waste Land
- July 2 & 16 - Gasland
- June 4 & 18 - Division Street
- May 7 & 21 - Vanishing of the Bees
- April 2 & 16 - Carbon Nation
- March 5 & 19 - The Legend of Pale Male
- February 5 & 19 - The Yes Men Fix The World
- January 29, 2011 - Climate Refugees (special showing)
In addition to our partnership with the CAMEO, we have screened films in the evenings at libraries, community colleges, and churches since February 2009. We own screening rights to a number of the films below. Please contact us if you are interested in finding out more about any of the films listed below.
- Addicted to Plastic
- After the Peak, The End of Cheap Oil
- Asparagus! Stalking the American Life
- Bag It
- Be the Change
- Big River
- Broken Limbs
- Carbon Nation
- Climate Refugees (Not Available)
- Coal Country
- A Convenient Truth
- Dirt! The Movie
- Division Street
- Ecological Footprint, The: Accounting for a Small Planet
- The Economics of Happiness
- Farmageddon
- Flow
- Food, Inc.
- Forks Over Knives
- Fresh, The Movie
- Gasland
- Gimme Green
- Greening of Southie, The
- Hungry for Green: Feeding the World Sustainably
- Kilowatt Ours (Not Available)
- King Corn: You Are What You Eat
- The Legend of Pale Male (Not Available)
- Mother Nature's Child
- The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
- Queen of the Sun
- Thirst
- The True Cost of Food
- Two Angry Moms
- Up Close & Toxic
- Vanishing of the Bees
- Waste Land
- What's the Economy for Anyway?
- The Yes Men Fix the World
"BE Aware of Our Air" Campaign
This education and awareness campaign is conducted in Cumberland County as part of an Early Action Compact agreement with USEPA and NCDENR's Division of Air Quality. The campaign's programs can be accessed at on the website of the Fayetteville Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (FAMPO). They include:
- Poster and Essay Contests: for grade K-7 students in Cumberland County. (This program is scheduled in association with the Dogwood Festival in April. Information will be posted on the above FAMPO link in late February or early March of each year.)
- Transportation: Go to the above FAMPO link and click on Programs to review Transit, Regional Rail, Highway Planning, and Bicycle & Pedestrian Planning.
2007 Sandhills Water Resources Conference
On November 8 and 9, 2007, Sustainable Sandhills held the Sandhills Water Resources Conference in Southern Pines, NC. The conference was led by Thomas S. Blue, PE RLS, the SS Water Team Leader.
Day 1: November 8, was for elected officials, community leaders, businessmen and women, and others from the Sandhills community.
Day 2: November 9, was for the professional community of engineers, architects and designers, who earned PDH credits for their attendance.