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Teri Crawford Brown- Conservation Starts at Home

By AV's Intern Team | August 12, 2016 |

Teri Crawford Brown, a volunteer distributor of The Appalachian Voice, and her husband have transformed a century-old church into a welcoming home and repurposed salvaged materials in the process.

Vermicompost: Let earthworms green your kitchen

By AV's Intern Team | August 11, 2016 |

Vermicomposting relies on earthworms to turn kitchen scraps into a rich soil amendment more quickly and with less odor than conventional composting methods.

Voter Turnout in the Mountains

By AV's Intern Team | August 11, 2016 |

Voter turnout for presidential elections has been consistently lower in Appalachia than in the rest of the nation since at least 2004, according to scholars.

Burning Southern Forests to Fuel Europe

By AV's Intern Team | August 11, 2016 |

The global push for “green” energy has led to clearcutting across the Southeast, where forests are being harvested to fuel Europe’s — and particularly the United Kingdom’s — push to use alternative fuels.

Fueling Cars with Plants- A test case in North Carolina

By AV's Intern Team | August 11, 2016 |

Though biofuels are most common in the Midwest, the state of North Carolina delved into biofuels research in 2007 before slowing research in 2013. Thus far, the venture hasn’t yielded much success.

Rebuilding Continues in Wake of Devastating West Virginia Floods

By AV's Intern Team | August 11, 2016 |

Extreme flooding in West Virginia killed 23 people and caused immense damage to roads, businesses and houses. Rebuilding continues after this thousand-year event.