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Central Carolina Community College's Chatham County Campus, in Pittsboro, and the Triangle Clean Cities Coalition hosted a National Alternative Fuel Vehicle Day Odyssey Oct. 18. Among the activities was a ribbon cutting for the campus's two electric vehicle charging stations, which are a cooperative project with Duke Energy. Provost Karen Allen (front, left) gets some help from Chatham County Commissioner Sally Kost (front, second from left) in hefting the giant ceremonial scissors to cut the ribbon. Joining them for the ribbon cutting are (front, from center) Pittsboro City Commissioner Beth Turner, CCCC Sustainability Coordinator Laura Lauffer, and Pittsboro City Commissioner Bett Wilson Foley; and (back, from left) Duke Energy Lead Engineer for Electric Transportation and Grid Modernization Mike Waters, CCCC President Bud Marchant, and college trustee Douglas Wilkinson Jr. For information about sustainability programs at Central Carolina Community College, visit its Web site, www.cccc.edu/green.

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Central Carolina Community College's Chatham County Campus, in Pittsboro, and the Triangle Clean Cities Coalition hosted a National Alternative Fuel Vehicle Day Odyssey Oct. 18. Among the activities was a display of AFVs. Checking under the hood of a Chevy Volt electric-gasoline hybrid are (from left) Sanford City Councilman J.D. Williams, Sanford Public Works Director Vic Czar, and Sanford General Services aDirector Tim Shaw. For information about sustainability programs at Central Carolina Community College, visit its Web site, www.cccc.edu/green.

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Visitors look over vehicles powered by alternative fuels at the National Alternative Fuel Vehicle Day Odyssey Oct. 18 at Central Carolina Community College's Chatham County Campus. The college and the Triangle Clean Cities Coalition hosted the event. Vehicles on display include (from far left) CCCC's biofuels-powered van, BuildSense Inc.'s bi-fuel CNG-gasoline Ford Escape, Advanced Energy Corp.'s all-electric Nissan Leaf, and Wilkinson Cadillac-Chevrolet-Buick-GMC and Duke Energy's electric-gasoline hybrid Chevy Volts. For information about sustainability programs at Central Carolina Community College, visit its Web site, www.cccc.edu/green.

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Central Carolina Community College's Chatham County Campus, in Pittsboro, and the Triangle Clean Cities Coalition hosted a National Alternative Fuel Vehicle Day Odyssey Oct. 18. Among the activities was a discussion of the use and future of alternative fuels in central North Carolina. Panel members were (from left) Jeff Andre, partner and operations lead of BuildSense, Inc. architecture and contracting firm; Rachel Burton, director of Piedmont Biofuels Research and Analytics Department; Michael Waters, lead engineer for electric transportation and grid modernization at Duke Energy; and Lacey Jane Wolfe, senior planner for energy and the environment for the Triangle Clean Cities Coalition of the Triangle J Council of Governments. For information about sustainability programs at Central Carolina Community College, visit its Web site, www.cccc.edu/green.