Countdown to Full power in Greenbrier County
July 11, 2012 Still 1,254 without power in Greenbrier County. Greenbrier PGA Results (ended July 8, 2012) PLAYER POS ROUNDS1 2 3 4 TOTAL SCORE OFFICIAL MONEY FedExCup POINTS Ted Potter, Jr. 1 69 67 64 64 264 $ 1,098,000.00 500.00 Troy Kelly 2 69 67 62 66 264 $ 658,800.00 300.00 Charlie Beljan T3 … Read more
Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco Chronicle Mining Catastrophes in West Virginia
Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges and illustrator Joe Sacco spent years chronicling life in the ‘sacrifice zones’ in the American Dream, where human beings and natural resources are used and then discarded by corporations. The result is Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, which culminates in the Occupy Wall Street movement. In the excerpt below, they … Read more
Acting Against Their Own Interests: Appalachian Coal Miners
In Monday’s New York Times, an excellent opinion piece lays out the “civil war” in Appalachia over coal and specifically mountaintop removal. The guts of the issue is here: Appalachia is engaged in a civil war of sorts over coal, with miners and their families pitted against environmental activists. The central issue is mountaintop removal, … Read more
The State of Solar Power in Europe
by James Hawkins Europe contains nine of the largest 15 solar markets in the world. In 2011, new European PV installations amounted to 20.9 GW, over 75% of the global total (27.7 GW). Germany has long held the crown within Europe as the clear leader in installed solar power capacity and now has a total of 24.7 … Read more
