Help Save The Mountains

My blogger friend Blue continues her tireless work to bring awareness to the issue of mountain-top removal - which, for those of you who don't know, is just what it sounds like: coal companies stripping the landscape to access the coal within. The photos of what used to be beautiful mountains are horribly shocking.  But it's more than an aesthetic problem.  This mining is directly affecting people's lives, and too, this raping of the earth is depleting forests...one more contributor to global warming.

Please take a minute to learn about this here .  On this site you'll find several links worth clicking on, including: a Bill Moyers video, photos of the problem taken from a airplane, and a slew of other interesting and/or disturbing links. Ways you can help are listed in its sidebar.

Thank-you for caring.

Comments

[bluemountainmama]

what a nice surprise to click over this morning and see this, june. thanks so much for continuing to draw attention to MTR. i feel momentum gaining..... one of our state senators just introduced a bill to stop MTR in our state legislature. i don't know if it will get very far, but it's a HUGE statement. he's the first state politician that i know of to stand up and renounce the practice. i hope it will give others the courage to do so....

[sandy kessler]

it has ruined parts of WVA.

[Shannon]

Vice T.V. has a fantastic home-grown documentary on this topic. You can find this at:

http://www.vbs.tv/player.php?bctid=494918454&bccl=NDEzMjk4MjU0X19ORVdT

Or if the link doesn't work then you can start at the main Vice site. I cried the first time I saw this.

[Bonnie Jacobs]

Come on over to Bonnie’s Books (http://bonniesbooks.blogspot.com/2008/02/awards-ceremony-dress-appropriately.html). Dress up because I’m having an awards ceremony complete with gala. And do bring along your acceptance speech, though the producers are asking that each person receiving an award please limit your speech to five minutes ... save your longer comments for your own blog, when you pass along the award(s).