How Green is your Campus?

By Molly Moore | August 13, 2008 |

There are many ways to find out how green your school is. The US EPA has a green power challenge for colleges, and Princeton Review has a rating system. There are also a dozen ways to make your school greener. And there are new funding initiatives through the Dept. of Education for financing green initiatives…

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Big Trouble on the Gauley

By AV's Intern Team | August 3, 2008 |

Gauley and New River Gorge residents worry that new mining operations will destroy tourism and their hopes for the future Story by Bill Kovarik American’s best whitewater is in big trouble. Mountaintop removal mining has arrived. Already one trout stream is dead and another is in jeopardy. Whitewater rafters and kayakers who flock to the…

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National Parks threatened

By AV's Intern Team | August 3, 2008 |

By Katie Easter Fact—one in three national parks have above standard air pollution. Fact—there are over 100 new coal fired plants across the country. Fact—currently 28 new plants are to be developed within 186 miles of ten national parks. The Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina, Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, and the Shenandoah…

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Trampling the Promised Land

By AV's Intern Team | August 3, 2008 |

Suburban Sprawl Now Dominates The Rural Landscape of America By Kathleen Marshall   The story of development in Appalachia goes back to 1585, when Lt. Ralph Lane sent surveyors to explore from what would, one day, be Chesapeake Bay south to present-day North Carolina. In a letter back to England, the Elizabethan explorer wrote, “.…

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