Media Hits

06/22/2008 Z-Net: "No sooner than I started to put my thoughts about the environment and markets onto paper, did I stumble upon a concrete example of one of the main things I was thinking about. I got out of bed this morning, went downstairs to make myself a cup of coffee, went outside to the end of the driveway, and grabbed the morning paper. As I was pulling the paper out of the box, a small headline indicating an article at the center of the paper caught my

 03/06/08 Florida State University News (Tallahassee, FL): "While many students spend their spring break at the beach or by a pool, students involved in the Mountain Justice Spring Break (MJSB) program will spend it working against the coal industry in the Appalachian Mountains.  MJSB is made up of 12 nationally and locally based organizations, including the Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC), the Southern Energy Network and the Energy Action Coalition. The week is spent informing students on the social and environmental impacts of the coal industry."

10/23/2007 Democracy Now (Washington, DC): "Hundreds of people converged on the U.S. Capitol Building to protest the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the Bush administration’s record on climate change. We speak to organizer Ted Glick, who is on the 50th day of a Climate Emergency Fast.  No War, No Warming was the theme of a day of civil disobedience in Washington, D.C. on Monday."

 

 

http://www.democracynow.org/2007/10/23/60_arrested_at_no_war_no
 

04/19/2008 Charleston Gazette (Charleston, WV): "Students at universities and colleges across West Virginia are collecting signatures and taking votes to make their campuses green. "Green is the buzzword," said Clarissa Mathews, assistant professor in environmental studies at Shepherd University."

 

http://wvgazette.com/News/200804180631

11/01/2007 The Daily Orange (Syracuse, NY) -- "Students know green initiatives when they see them: the separate bins for recycling in their dorm rooms and in campus buildings, and the new Centro hybrid buses that shuttle them to and from South Campus. Yet it seems Syracuse University students are not as capable of articulating the programs initiated by the university to spur environmental change and sustainability."

 

 

 10/23/2007 The Washington Post (Washington, DC) -- "Trish Comstock, 77, and Jane Califf, 67, sat side by side on the sidewalk outside the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill yesterday, their hands cuffed behind them with plastic wrist ties.  They were among 59 people arrested by Capitol police yesterday during antiwar and global warming protests that temporarily blocked the entrances to the office building and disrupted morning traffic for about an hour on Independence Avenue just south of the Capitol."

 

03/06/2008 Richmond Times-Dispatch (Richmond, VA) -- " Opponents of a proposed coal-fired power plant have some reinforcements -- about 75 college students who arrived to help fight the coal industry in Southwest Virginia.

The students are on an alternative spring break to learn about coal, the region and activism on issues including mountaintop removal strip mining and the power plant Dominion Virginia Power is proposing to build in Wise County, Va."

 

http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-03-06-0149.html

2/15/2008 Kentucky Kernal (Frankfort, KY) -- "Instead of flowers and candy, thousands of people gave state legislators something to think about on Valentine's Day.  Kentuckians for the Commonwealth and other environmental organizations rallied yesterday at the Capitol Building in Frankfort to protest mountaintop removal, a form of strip mining where explosives are used to blast the tops of mountains to mine the coal beneath."