Category — Mother Earth

Join fellow mountain activists this Monday, Dec. 7, to travel to the West Virginia Dept. of Environmental Protection headquarters in Charleston, WV for a rally and protest to save Coal River Mountain.

We’ll be traveling in a van from the Appalachian Voices headquarters in Boone to join local residents from Coal River Mountain for the rally in Charleston. The van leaves Boone at 8:45am for the 2 pm rally; we will return to Boone by 10pm or so.

This rally is of urgent importance. Massey Energy is actively blasting and mining on Coal River Mountain in southern West Virginia. The blasting is taking place only a few hundred feet away from the Brushy Fork impoundment dam, which holds over 9 billion gallons of toxic coal sludge above the Coal River Valley. This blasting is happening despite studies that show Coal River Mountains has the highest and most productive potential for wind power generation in the Appalachian Mountains.

The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection needs to see that Virginia residents support a clean energy future — not the dirty energy and destructive practice of mountaintop removal.

Please join us:

Where: Appalachian Voices Headquarters, 191 Howard St, Boone, NC Click here for directions.

When: Monday, December 7th, 8:45am

For more information and to RSVP, please contact Austin Hall, austin@appvoices.org, 828.262.1500.

We hope to see you there! 

Matt Wasson

iLoveMountains.org

I just wanted to give everyone a head’s up. If your looking for a gift that’s green, fun and teaches edible and medicinal plants you should check out this great board game. Wildcraft! includes a 20×20 inch game board, instructions, 4 player pieces, 52 plant cards, 52 trouble cards, 25 cooperative cards, and a spinner. It also comes with a downloadable story to enhance the story of the game.

Learn while you play with the Wildcraft board game.

Winner of Dr. Toy’s Best Green Product of 2009 and Mothering Magazine Best Natural Toys of 2008, Wildcraft! is

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• Box/board made with 100% recycled chipboard.

• Printed with vegetable oil based inks.

• Water based coating on paper, no varnish.

• Forest Stewardship Council certified paper.

• All material is 100% recyclable

Wildcraft! is a great introduction to the world of edible and medicinal herbs for children of ALL ages.

They’re also giving away SEVEN highly prized bonus items.

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This 20 page children’s activity book is a nice
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A wonderful 90 minnute audio eClass on using herbs safe and
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This 10 inch by 10 inch medicine cabinet sized chart is
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Learn while you play with the Wildcraft board game.

I just took part in saving America’s Most Endangered Mountain- Coal River Mountain! Coal River Mountain could be a clean energy wind farm- or a 6,600 acre mountaintop removal wasteland. I urge you to contact the Obama Administration today and ask them to stop the blasting that has just started on the mountain.

http://www.ilovemountains.org/coalriver

There is also a danger associated with a coal sludge dam near the current blast site. So not only are local residents afraid of losing the last remaining mountain in Coal River Valley, their lives are in danger should the dam fail. Please help by emailing the Obama Administration today!

You can multiply your impact for preserving the mountains and communities of Central Appalachia, as well as our nation’s drinking water, by getting your friends to take action.

A dear friend of ours planted a butterfly garden outside her kitchen window. The flowers bloomed and the butterflies were her delight. She told everyone about her beautiful garden and the abundance of wonderful butterflies that it attracted. It was refreshing to see someone, who in her sixties, get so excited about something so simple.

One day my mother stopped by to pay our friend a visit. Immediately she noticed that the butterfly garden was gone, destroyed, she said it looked as if a tornado had touched down and left the flowers strewn about in heaps all over the ground. [Read more →]

As I was enjoying my morning coffee, listening to the birds, chickens, and the creek as it tumbled across the rocks I began to feel a bit poetic. Susan and Tony suggested that I post it so here it is. I hope you enjoy it. [Read more →]