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Green building recognition programs have been developed in Europe and North America over the past 10-15 years with an objective of shifting the built environment toward a more sustainable mode. Such programs are important – certainly in concept – in focusing building designers and construction firms on more efficient use of energy and water, improvement…

No more boxes of rain! The KY News express has a story on the continuing saga of the people of Rawl and Lick Creek in Mingo County WV and their struggle to obtain clean drinking water. Residents of Lick Creek and the surrounding areas of Mingo County will have access to public water within a…

Two Australian miners are making the most of their recent escape from a collapsed mine, …amid charges of greed and fame-mongering from the press…

(Jeff Biggers is the award-winning author of The United States of Appalachia: How Southern Mountaineers brought Independence, Culture, and Enlightenment to America. Buy it now…it’s awesome. – jdub) An Interview with renowned Appalachian poet P.J. Laska Thirty years ago, visiting Antioch College-Appalachia in the coal fields of Beckley, West Virginia, renowned poet Donald Hall stumbled…

Driving up to Norton, in Wise County, VA, on Saturday – the Saturday of a Fourth of July Weekend – I had just about all 4 lanes of the road to myself. What a contrast from Damascus, just 45 miles to the southeast, where traffic was almost in a gridlock. Everywhere were smiling families on…

The question is…where is it showing near you? Go see this movie. This movie will be the first truly galvanizing international environmental event of the 21st century. Silent Spring. Love Canal. An Inconvenient Turth. TAKE ACTION Please visit moviefone.com or fandango.com for specific and current showtimes in your area. Here are the theatre listings in…

[Louisiana] This and other results of the study conducted with landowners in Louisiana and Mississippi by researchers at the LSU AgCenter and Mississippi State University will be used to provide the background needed for developing a Web site and handbook on forestland certification, said Dr. Richard Vlosky, director of the Louisiana Forest Products Development Center…

This month, U.S. P.I.R.G., released a report called “ The Carbon Boom: National and State Trends in Carbon Dioxide Emissions Since 1960”. A lot of people ask me, why do you care about air pollution? Global warming is going to be the only problem we’ll be worrying about in 50 years. Well, with such a…

If you live in WV and think that we need further incentives for renewable energy, stand with OHVEC today and submit a comment to the Public Service Commission about net-metering in West Virginia! They have sample letters, talking points, everything. Heres the skinny on net-metering (its awesome.) 1) Small scale electricity production (solar, wind, bio-mass,…