8 Weekender April 28, 1978
International Sun Day comes to Triangle
By LESLIE CHILTON
Stall Writer
Americans from San Francisco, Calif., to Chapel
Hill and people in more than 60 other nations will
celebrate Sun Day May 3 with community solar fairs,
sunrise services, solar home and greenhouse tours and
exhibits for educating the public on the advantages of
solar energy.
"Sun Day will he a national celebration of solar
power and its offshoots," says Jim Overton, a member
of Tri-City Sun Day, Inc., of Raleigh, Durham and
Chapel Hill. The purpose of Sun Day is to
demonstrate to the public the availability and
commercial feasibility of solar power now, not just as a
future technology, he says.
"I would be willing to guess that almost every home
in America uses solar power in some way," he adds,
noting that even sunlight through windows provides a
degree of heat.
Sun Day workers will coordinate solar festivities
and learning programs in the Triangle Area
throughout Sun Week, April 30 to May 7. Wednesday,
May 3, has been proclaimed as Sun Day by President
Carter, the U.S. Congress, N.C. Gov. Jim Hunt and
local mayors.
Sun Day was conceived in December 1977 at a
conference of environmentalists and labor-union
leaders in Washington, D.C. Overton says the
originators wished to "highlight the significance of
these (energy) alternatives and their present feasibility
and desirability."
"Solar energy works through basically harnessing
the energy you receive normally and trapping it in a
number of different ways," Overton explains. He said
that one way to trap this energy is by putting a glass
covered box, painted black on the interior, on top of a
building. Water is heated as it flows through the box
on its way to the water heater.
Another method works through a solar collector
with a thin solar cell inside it which converts sunlight
into electricity.
The use of solar power for heat and electric needs
was labelled cheaper than using electricity by the
Energy Research and Development Administration in
1976.
National celebrations of Sun Day will begin at the
point where the sun first hits the United States with a
solar celebration atop Cadillac Mountain, Maine. The
United Nations will hold a sunrise concert in New
York, and a traveling slide show will demonstrate the
agricultural uses of solar power on the farm to
midwestern farmers.
Triangle festivities will kick off Sunday April 30 in
Durham with an interdenominational sunrise service
and breakfast, to be followed by a five-mile "Sun Run"
open to all, starting at Baldwin Auditorium.
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A New Games festival will be held on Duke
University's Hanes Field, and the downtown Durham
loop will be closed in the afternoon for a bicycle race.
Free general fair events will be held on Duke's East
Campus throughout the day, including solar exhibits,
workshops, speakers, music and refreshments.
In Chapel Hill, the student environmentalist group
ECOS, Chapel Hill Sun Day, WCHL, the Village
Advocate, and Bob's Homemade Ice Cream will
sponsor the world's longest ice cream sundae. A $1
donation for adults and 50 cents for children will buy
all you can eat in Great Hall of the Carolina Union.
More than 100 gallons of ice cream and a section of
frozen yogurt will stretch 600 feet.
Proceeds from the sundae will boost the ECOS
Solar Greenhouse Fund, which will finance a solar
greenhouse in the Chapel Hill area. The site has not
been chosen yet.
Monday, May 1 begins four days of displays of solar
collectors and students' solar projects in the Pit on the -UNC
campus. Three slide shows will be held at UNC,
that night on the economics and designs of alternative
energy systems.
A slide show on the use of solar greenhouses will be
presented Tuesday, May 2, and films will be shown at
the N.C. Botanical Gardens.
A solar greenhouse has been constructed in Durham
by Sun Day representatives and Operation
Breakthrough, a federal Action program interested in
providing low-cost energy alternatives to low-income
persons. The greenhouse, at 2711 Dearborn Ave., is
now operable and will be on display Wednesday, May
3. A second solar greenhouse was built in
Hillsborough.
i Also that day, Sun Day, Raleigh will celebrate with
sunrise services at Pullen Park Island, running events,
exhibits at the Fayetteville Street Mall, and a dusk
concert for Sun Day workers and the public for $1.50.
In Chapel Hill, a sunrise service and community
breakfast at the Mason Farm Community Gardens
will start the day. A noon celebration of Sun Day will
be held at the sundial at Morehead Planetarium. A
nature walk at the N.C. Botanical Gardens will be
followed by a conference there to encourage citizens to
use energy-efficient designs when building, and a
booth on Franklin Street will distribute information
on Sun Day activities and solar energy.
More activities to celebrate Sun Day and Sun Week
are in the planning stages. The Sun Day workers are
looking for ideas to help celebrate and for people to
help set up the various projects. More than fifty
workers will be needed to build the ice cream sundae,
and a meeting for all interested persons will be held
today in the Carolina U nion. The Sun Day office in the
Presbyterian Student Center on Henderson Street can
be reached for more details about Sun Day at 967
8006, and Sun Day T-shirts can be purchased therefor
$4.50.
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