Sustainable Living Center: Teaching by Example

By AV's Intern Team | January 3, 2009 |

By Maureen Halsema The sun was shining, the wind was blowing and the energy was flowing into the little office in Floyd, Va. “You can’t miss it,” Billy Weitzenfeld said. “It’s the building next to the 42-foot tall wind turbine.” The Sustainable Living Education Center, a branch of the Association of Energy Conservation Professionals (AECP),…

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War Spur Trail at Mountain Lake Wilderness

By AV's Intern Team | January 2, 2009 |

Story by Joe Tennis Call this a place of highlands and headwaters—an old growth forest where solitude and breathtaking vistas are unmatched—a getaway in southwest Virginia’s Jefferson National Forest. Here, in the Mountain Lake Wilderness Area of Giles County, Va., lies the Eastern Continental Divide. Streams in this region flow into either the New River,…

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