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Group of people smile for poised photo in front of 300 solar panels atop the three-story William B. Robertson Administration Building in downtown Roanoke.

Roanoke City Public Schools invests in students and saves big with solar

Zionville Ramp Co. filled with supplies as Stateline began to grow on Oct. 9. Photo courtesy of Stateline Resource Station.

How A Skate Park Became A Long-Term Disaster Relief Hub

Sheep grazing under solar panels in a green field in Virginia.

Grazing In The Sun: Enterprising Farmers Pair Agriculture With Solar Power

SEEED’s Career Readiness Training 2025 spring cohort at Alex Haley Heritage Square in Knoxville, Tenn. According to the nonprofit’s 2024 Year in Review report, 28 students graduated the CRP last year. Following the completion of the CRP program, young adults can enter one of the nonprofit’s bootcamps focused on green construction methods or community engagement. Photo courtesy of SEEED.

Green Jobs, Healthy Communities: A Conversation With SEEED’s Stan Johnson and JD Jackson 

MountainTrue's Watauga Riverkeeper Andy Hill holding and Eastern Hellbender that will be relocated prior the the demolition of the Shulls Mill Dam. Photo courtney of Karim Olaechea, MountainTrue.

Endangered species listing could help save Eastern hellbenders in Appalachian streams

ARP’s co-executive directors Tiffany (left) and Taysha DeVaughan (right) cut the ribbon at a ribbon-cutting ceremony on ARP’s land in Roxana, KY. (PC- Dr. Artie Ann Bates)

Community-based Indigenous organization acquires property on proposed federal prison site as part of grassroots effort to create a different future for Eastern Kentucky

Workers pour concrete to form stairs coming down from the pedestrian bridge from the McAfee Knob trailhead parking lot across Virginia 311. Photo by Dan Radmacher.

UPDATE: Pedestrian bridge opens for McAfee Knob trail crossing

Photo of two people in front of an animal shelter with a colorful mural of a dog. Photo by Michael Chassereau from Forever and Always Photography.

Animal shelter finds the purr-fect solar solution to cutting costs

Over Yonder owners Andy and Megan Long operated the restaurant in Valle Crucis, N.C., since 2014. The pair moved to the area in the early 2000s. Photo by James M. Davidson ©2024.

Helene’s lingering toll on Appalachian businesses

Fern Way Bridge, North Carolina. Photo credit: Rev. Rob Morris, Executive Director, Christmount.

Community efforts to repair private roads and bridges underway in NC, hopeful for FEMA funding