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Protected: Volunteer monitors coal mine data and maintains Appalachian Trail
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The Clinch Coalition Celebrates 20 Years
The grassroots environmental group has helped to protect the natural resources within the Jefferson National Forest for 20 years.
TAGS: Clinch Ranger District High Knob Naturalist Rally Jefferson National Forest The Clinch Coalition Volunteer
Member Spotlight: Mike McKinney
Knoxville-based Mike McKinney is a environmental educator, researcher and advocate — and also a longtime distributor of The Appalachian Voice publication.
Volunteer Task Force
Get involved with Appalachian Voices to educate Western North Carolina residents about decreasing energy waste!
Member Spotlight: Diana Withen
Diana Withen is a teacher, leader and environmental advocate in Southwest Virginia, where she is also regularly distributes The Appalachian Voice.
Serving residents by saving energy
Students at Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C. spent a recent Saturday volunteering with Appalachian Voices and others to give two local homes an energy efficiency boost. The work was part of the school’s 18th annual MLK Challenge. “They caught energy leaks I knew nothing about,” said Faith Wright of Vilas, N.C., who was grateful for the volunteer energy of what she called the “student worker bees.”
TAGS: Appalachian State University ASU Energy Efficiency Energy Savings MLK Challenge North Carolina on-bill financing Volunteer weatherization
Lighting up the night with the Daylight Savings Challenge
To make this winter a little easier for folks in Boone, N.C. facing high energy bills, Appalachian Voices devised the Daylight Savings Challenge. Five student volunteers helped us distribute energy efficient LED light bulbs to seniors. All together, the project should save the residents at least $280 a year. That translates to about 1.75 tons of coal that won’t get burned and more than four tons of carbon dioxide pollution that won’t contribute to climate change
TAGS: Appalachian State University daylight savings Energy Efficiency led bulbs North Carolina Volunteer
Teri Crawford Brown- Conservation Starts at Home
Teri Crawford Brown, a volunteer distributor of The Appalachian Voice, and her husband have transformed a century-old church into a welcoming home and repurposed salvaged materials in the process.
