Searching for the Elusive White Squirrel
By Dani Halliday
THE HIGHWAY 64 PROJECT
The Team That Makes It Happen.
About Us
The Project 64 initiative serves as a “one-stop” destination for travel, tourism, and now climate resiliency resources in regions along Highway 64 in North Carolina. The project has been pursued for several years and is maintained by a collaboration of Professional Writing and Rhetoric (PWR) and Environmental Studies (ENS) students. Serving multiple purposes, the Highway 64 project is an excellent outlet for PWR students to publish pieces and for ENS students to reach out to communities in NC to build climate resiliency. It provides NC residents and/or tourists to have a publicly accessible resource to learn more about other towns, community members, and initiatives in the regions along Highway 64. The regions featured on the site include the Mountains, the Foothills, the Coastal Plain, and the Piedmont, each with a list of respective towns that run along Highway 64. Information about tourism destinations, food options, and town history can be found in various tabs.
Climate Resilience
Climate resilience is a population's ability to respond to and overcome effects of a changing global climate. A population's resilience depends on the interplay of society, the economy, politics, and ecosystems. The climate resilience section of this website highlights a wide range of voices who are building climate resilience within their towns, businesses, indigenous communities, farms, and more. These features include interviews with individuals who are experiencing the impacts of climate change first-hand, as well as research conducted by our students in the environmental studies department. Another goal of the climate resilience section of the website is to provide access to environmental data and educational tools. These tools aim to engender agency amongst our readers to confidently spread climate science.