By Kate Larken Kate Larken is a member of Public Outcry, a musical group that performs to educate the public about mountaintop removal coal mining. She is also the publisher of MotesBooks, Inc. There are several Appalachias. Life at the…
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Loosen Industry’s Grip on Government
By Jeff Biggers Jeff Biggers is the author of The United States of Appalachia and a contributor to Huffington Post, where this first appeared. … If President-elect Obama is truly serious about affecting climate change, launching a new green economy,…
Stream Buffer Zone Rule Repeal Deserves President Obama’s Attention
To the outrage of environmentalists across the Appalachian region, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved a severe weakening of a rule protecting streams from coal mining pollution in early December. The Stream Buffer Zone rule had been in effect since…
USA & Columbia: Coal Is The Wound That Binds
Environmental Effects of Mountaintop Removal Mining Worse Than South American Mining Operations First of a series: Coal around the World By Bill Kovarik Mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia is even more destructive than in Columbia, said two union miners from that…
Blasting Permit Granted on Coal River Mountain
Story by Sarah Vig Bulldozers are set to begin moving dirt on Coal River Mountain, and Massey Energy, with the permit granted to them by West Virginia’s Department of Environmental Protection, can begin blasting at any time. The permit’s approval,…
Biker Merges Law With Advocacy
By Sarah Vig Sam Evans’ environmental consciousness has always been linked to his bike. As a teenager growing up in Walker county, Alabama, Evans started riding in high school for transportation. “I didn’t have a car,” he explained sheepishly. Beyond…
Appalachian Bookshelf
These four picks for Appalachian literature and history represent an astonishing depth and variety. For more, see www.appvoices.org/books. • Field Guide to Medicinal Wild Plants, by Bradford Angier, Stackpole Books (2008). This revised edition brings back a 30-year-old classic field…
Appalachia Needs Appropriate Technology
By Al Fritsch and Paul Gallimore Excerpt from “Healing Appalachia,” University of Kentucky Press, 2007 Appropriate technology is a necessity for our planet as well as our country and the Appalachian region. We hope to offer a regional model of…
Appalachia Cannot Become a Sacrifice Zone
By Wendell Berry Wendell Berry is a world-renowned author of 25 books of poems, 16 volumes of essays, and 11 novels and short story collections. He is widely known as the conscience of Appalachia. These remarks were made at the…
Future Depends on Vision
By Bill Kovarik Fifty years ago, America discovered Appalachia and the “sense of despair which lingers over the valleys and ridges,” as one Washington Post writer put it. Stark images of poverty aroused the conscience of the nation, and a…
