Archive for July 2008

(h/t wvblueguy over at WVaBlue)

Hope everyone is having a fabulous summer! The wytheconservnet.org website will be up and running in August, until then we wanted to let you know about an event this Sunday. Please consider attending the Blue Ridge Forest (www.blueridgeforestcoop.com) Co-op’s Field Day and Annual Meeting in Wythe County on July 20th. This is a casual event…

March on Zeb Mountain! STOP STRIP MINING TENNESSEE’S WATERSHEDS! United Mountain Defense, Mountain Justice and Three Rivers Earth First! ask you to march with us for Appalachia. This is a call for you to take a Sunday out of your life to help preserve some of the oldest mountains and watersheds on Earth. March with…

Morgan Spurlock made his first splash in the entertainment industry with his Academy Award nominated documentary entitled Super Size Me. In the film, Spurlock ate only McDonald’s food for thirty days. Americans were astonished by the effects this had on his body, and Super Size Me became a hit. The popularity of the movie even…

Wind Turbines are a form of renewable energy that harness the power of ever circulating wind. In 2007 Bush signed a $162 Billion war supplemental in order to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan until 2009. This federal money is put into perspective by the Apollo Alliance and Policy Matters Ohio’s Renewable Energy Policy…

It doesn’t always occur to us that our electricity comes from somewhere. But for many people on the east coast, every time we flip on a light switch, we are connected to the blowing up of the oldest mountains in the world – the Appalachian Mountains – where coal is being extracted using a barbaric…

July11-July13, 2008 www.nylovesmountains.org This July, Headwater Productions, a community action and arts production company out of Brooklyn, NY, will put on a series of events to further New Yorkers’ awareness of mountaintop removal coal mining and its devastating social, ecological, and economic effects on the Appalachian region. Headwater Productions was founded in 2008 by Stephanie…

“Fighting Goliath: Texas Coal Wars” “Fighting Goliath: Texas Coal Wars” is a new video from the Redford Center at the Sundance Preserve and Alpheus Media and is narrated by Robert Redford. It is about an unlikely coalition of Texans against 19 conventional coal-fired power plants proposed for Eastern and Central Texas. The film highlights the…

Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved. A man defending his home is worth 10 invaders. There is no place like home. Home is home, be it ever so humble. These phrases may have graced our ears 3,592 times, but ponderings on the meaning of home mean a little bit more…