western NC
Western Regional Leadership Training
Submitted by Jerimee on Mon, 06/04/2007 - 1:57pm.
This past Saturday's leadership training in Morganton set the fuse for explosive growth in Democratic representation from the west.
From Coal to Wind Power: creating a sustainable Appalachian economy
Submitted by jwrandolph on Mon, 11/27/2006 - 3:53pm.This post is intended to continue to bring to light the problems with current energy production and consumption, and show what one little corner of the world here in western North Carolina is doing to pitch in on a GLOBAL problem of fossil fuel production and consumption.
In Appalachia, we begin by trading nightmarish mountaintop removal coal-mining, for an afternoon breeze...
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(Cross-posted at the Appalachian Voices blog)
As America awakes to the effects that our energy production and consumption is having on the globe, people are shocked to find out that we do things like blow up 100s of 1000s of acres in our own mountains for a just little bit of coal. One of the most agreed upon tenets among those of us working for sustainable energy policy is that "there is no silver bullet" as far as alternative energy. Another words, it isn't feasible to run everything in the United States off just solar, just wind, or just hydro power. I adhere to this belief. America will need to localize our energy solutions in order to create the sustainable, clean, stable, domestic energy policy that everyone wants and needs.
