Other Top Stories From June/July 2014
At What Cost?
Concerns about Duke’s toxic coal ash have prompted Annie Brown and dozens of other community members to meet regularly since July 2013 to discuss how to get it out of their neighborhood once and for all. The group, which calls itself “Residents for Coal Ash Cleanup,” has recently grown in size, becoming more outspoken and more certain of their demands.
More Than a Market
By Megan Northcote Shopping for fresh, locally grown foods at farmers markets is always a refreshing way…
Facing the Frontier: Practical Considerations for Genetic Modification in Appalachian Food
By Valerie Bruchon It sounds perfect: enter a laboratory, change one quality of a food crop through…
Murky Rules Raise Questions About Coal Ash Minefill
By Brian Sewell When FirstEnergy Corporation announced plans last year to close Little Blue Run coal ash…
Confronting Carbon Pollution
By Molly Moore Six months after declaring “climate change is a fact,” in his State of the…
June/July 2014 - Columns
Hiking the Highlands
Streamside Technology in the Clinch River Valley
By Kimber Ray Although visitors are unlikely to…
Naturalist’s Notebook
Acrobats of the Forest: The Eastern Gray Treefrog
By Meredith Warfield It’s mating season in Appalachia,…
This Green House
Appalachian University Builds Home With Solar Flare
Appalachian State University, partnered with a French university, will be the sole representative of Appalachia’s green ingenuity in the third European Solar Decathlon Appalachian State University’s net-zero energy home, shown above under construction in Boone, N.C., will compete in the event.
Member Spotlight
Politics
Appalachia’s Environmental Votetracker: June/July 2014 issue
See how Appalachia’s congressional delegation voted on environmental issues.
Across Appalachia
Energy Report