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April / May 2013
The Dollars and Sense of Energy SavingsFlip Through the Full Print Version: Issuu viewer
Using electricity wisely is vital for Appalachia, a region that has borne the burdens of our national appetite for cheap energy. Unlocking the Southeast’s vast energy savings potential could be the key to forging a cleaner, greener future.
Feature Stories
- Power to the People: Energy Savings and the Public Trust
- The Means to More Efficient Ends: Energy Conservation Takes Businesses to New Heights
- Green Visions: Chattanooga’s high-tech advances are seeded with grassroots principles
- Powering with Change: On-bill financing helps low-income co-op members retrofit their homes
- A Case for the Smart Grid: How adding intelligence to an aging system could put control in the consumers’ hands
Shorts
REGULARS
- Across Appalachia — Build-It-Up! Prepares Young Leaders | EPA Finds Impaired Streams Across Nation, Cites West Virginia| Landing Opportunity | Williamson, W.Va. – A Gateway to Sustainability in Central Appalachia | A Failure To Cooperate Over Wilderness Right-of-Way | Seeing is Believing: Air Quality Improves in Great Smoky NP |Unhappy Appalachia | Virginia’s Dominion Settles in Clean Air Pollution Lawsuit | Road Trippin’: Corridor K Still Threatens Goforth Creek| Unquenchable Thirst: Water Runs In Ga./Tenn. Land Dispute
- The Coal Report — Selenium Spillover: Pollutant Poses Growing Risks to Ecosystems and the Coal Industry | OSM Approves Expansion of Appalachia’s Largest Slurry Impoundment | Virginia Transportation Board OKs Coalfields Expressway | More Research Links Mountaintop Removal and Poor Health | Greenhouse Gas Rules May Have to Wait | EPA Gets Its Day in Court: Hearings Begin on Spruce Mine No. 1 Appeal
- Viewpoint — Opinions from our Readers : Forest Service Funding Impacts Linville Gorge
