The billboard industry is campaigning hard to overturn Durham's existing ban on billboards

[Triana]

The billboard industry is campaigning hard to overturn Durham's
existing ban on billboards -- and allow big, bright, electronic
billboards flashing more than 10,000 ads/day on highways near our
neighborhoods, parks, and schools.

Electronic billboards have a big carbon footprint -- equivalent to
that of about 13 houses. At the same time citizens are being urged to
use florescent light bulbs to reduce our individual carbon footprints,
we're being urged to embrace billboards and their energy consumption?

To counter the misinformation coming from industry, folks in the
community launched a new website at
http://supportdurhambillboardban.com/

[NishiKotarou]

1. Not to discourage good intentions...

but really there are more pressing threats to our current environmental crisis.... SUVs maybe?