Grassroots advocacy for clean energy, strong communities and a healthy environment
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Clean energy
We work to end harmful fossil fuel practices, shift to clean, 21st-century energy sources, and stand up to monopoly utility practices that put profits over people.
Healthy environment
We leverage grassroots organizing, community engagement, policy advocacy and technical expertise to protect the land, air and water of Central and Southern Appalachia.
Strong communities
We envision an Appalachia with healthy ecosystems and resilient local economies that allow communities to thrive.
ABOUT APP VOICES
Appalachian Voices has been the region’s grassroots advocate for healthy communities and environmental protection for over 20 years, and a leading force in Appalachia’s shift from fossil fuels to clean energy and a just future.
WHERE WE WORK
Our work is concentrated in the five-state section of Central and Southern Appalachia.
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Stories from 
Planting for the Grandkids
Gardening from memory is getting trickier in Appalachia as hardiness zones change. Some areas, like parts of Asheville, Knoxville and Johnson City, have shifted full hardiness zones since 1990. An arborist explains what this shift means for the trees you plant this fall, and for the grandchildren who’ll live with them.
Ridgeline Pipeline Construction Impacts in Rural East Tennessee
Neighbors share concerns about noise, unpredictable construction schedules and other disruptions due to methane gas pipeline construction in East Tennessee.
Neighbors Help Neighbors
A photo essay that celebrates the volunteer spirit of the grassroots group Hurricane Helene WNC and speaks to the resourcefulness, collaboration and hard work embodied by thousands and thousands of volunteers, first responders and aid workers across the region after Hurricane Helene.
Halloween Approaches, and Night School Is in Session
The House of Art in Bluefield, West Virginia, looks like a haunted tower, making it the perfect location for its sixth annual haunt event: Night School. The Night School will be open every Friday and Saturday night through Oct. 31.
‘The Most Perfect Act of Love’
Hundreds of people attended the second annual Affirming Sumner Pride celebration on a 24-acre farm dubbed “Fruity Farm” in Bethpage, Sumner County, Tennessee.
Signs of Life: Endangered Bats Found in Nantahala for First Time in More Than a Decade
In the Nantahala National Forest, a team of biologists spotted Indiana bats, an endangered species that hasn’t been seen in North Carolina for the last 11 years.