Sitting before my wood stove fire on this snowy winter morning, I am filled with gratitude for these comforts of the forest. Ken’s business as a handyman takes him to large farms where he culls insect or storm damaged or…
Monthly Archives: April 2007
Mr. Peabody’s Coal Train is OUTTA HERE!
It looks like Peabody Coal is abandoning Appalachia in favor of cleaner waters… “Peabody’s strategy is to remain the leader in the Powder River, Southwest Colorado and Illinois Basins, to continue to grow rapidly in Australia and to expand into…
Intermediate to Advanced Concepts in GIS for Natural Resource Professionals
Intermediate to Advanced Concepts in GIS for Natural Resource Professionals April 19-20, Raleigh, NC, sponsored by NC State University Forestry & Environmental Outreach Program, Department of Forestry & Environmental Resources, and Center for Earth Observation, 10.5 hours of Category 1…
Duke Energy Seeks Permission to Pollute North Carolina’s Lungs and Environment
Duke Energy, hereafter the polluter (let’s call a spade, a spade), has taken another significant step toward building a new 800-Megawatt pulverized coal-fired power plant in Rutherford County. North Carolina’s Division of Air Quality announced Wednesday afternoon that it has…
The Littlest Birds – The Be Good Tanyas
This is about as good a pick-me-up as I could ask for. One of my favorite songs, and a hat-tip to wild, wonderful, West Virginia Blue
Across Appalachia
Woody biomass fuel helps NC rural economy, urban air Development of North Carolina’s wood resources would help decrease smokestack emissions and contribute to better health and air quality, Alex Hobbs, deputy director of the North Carolina Solar Center, told a…
Making a mint out of the Moon
From his office in Nevada, entrepreneur Dennis Hope has spawned a multi-million-dollar property business selling plots of lunar real estate at $20 (£10) an acre. Mr Hope exploited a loophole in the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and he has…
International Groups Hear Coal Delegation
Aiming to build alliances throughout the world and call attention to their experiences with mountaintop removal as a form of coal mining, The Coalfield Delegation – a group of seven organizations representing the voices of the dispossessed in Appalachia –…
WELLS COLLEGE HOSTS PRESENTATION ON APPALACHIAN COAL MINING
Sandra Diaz of Appalachian Voices speaks on mountaintop removal Aurora, New York – The Wells College chapter of Amnesty International has invited Sandra Diaz, a field coordinator for Appalachian Voices, to campus for a talk on the impact of mountaintop…
Black Diamonds Documentary Video Released
A realistic style and a straightforward narrative make Black Diamonds one of the best documentary videos to come out of the mountaintop removal mining fight to date. The documentary features discussions with many of the key people who are affected…
