From KFTC's Tanya Turner: Floyd County's upcoming Growing Appalachia conference will be highlighted on this week'sMountain ... Read This Post
Stories
Regional Food Beyond the Farmer’s Market
Recently, the environmental news site Grist featured a commentary titled, "Forget farmers markets—I want to sell my pastured meat at Price ... Read This Post
State of Environmental Justice in America 2011: Building the Clean Energy Economy with Equity — Registration Now Open
From an email we received, announcing the Department of Interior's Environmental Justice conference to be held in Washington DC in late April: I ... Read This Post
Demand Side Management & Renewable Energy Collective to Meet
To begin the work of evaluating and recommending renewable energy and energy efficiency options to the East Kentucky Power Cooperative board, the ... Read This Post
Register for the Growing Appalachia Workshop
Kentuckians for the Commonwealth is hosting a follow up to last year's very successful Growing Appalachia gathering. The day will be filled ... Read This Post
Student Series: Saving Seeds and Sustainable Agriculture
Another installment in our student series, this time featuring Caroline Coleman's interview of seed-saving pioneer and Appalachian agricultural ... Read This Post
Love Mountains and Miners? Show Me the Money (or a Coalfields Regeneration Fund)
Jeff Biggers has a provocative piece in the Huffington Post today, calling for the establishment of a transition fund for the coalfields of ... Read This Post
Rural vs. Urban? Rural and Urban? Rural with Urban?
Last week, a post by Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein teed off an exchange about rural versus urban living, subsidies and government spending, and ... Read This Post
Encouragement for New Gardeners
We're getting our spring planting underway, and judging from the interest in local foods lately think you might be too! Colleen Vanderlinden ... Read This Post
Local Food Networks Growing in Appalachia
On Friday, March 11, local foods producers, advocates and policymakers from all over West Virginia and beyond gathered at Fairmont State University ... Read This Post
Will ‘Hiking’ the Trail in 4 Minutes Draw Visitors to Appalachia?
While much of the Appalachian Trail doesn't run through Central Appalachia directly, the AT serves as a testament to the larger region's ... Read This Post
Report Says Ohio is Green Jobs Hotspot
From EarthTechling and Enterprise Appalachia, a story on Ohio's green jobs creation success to date and future potential. Passing the ... Read This Post
