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Mountain Top Removal in the Appalachians
Published December 30th, 2005 in Ecology
The Appalachian Mountains and their watersheds will be no more if we cannot find a way to stop Mountain Top Removal Mining. The folks at Mountain Justice Summer need your help and financial support if the Appalachian mountains are going to be saved. If you are not familiar with the practice of Mountain Top Removal Mining, please take a moment to view the illustration, and read the excerpt below from the Mountain Justice Summer website:
www.MountainJusticeSummer.org
Mountain Top Removal Mining
Mountaintop removal / valley fill coal mining (MTR) has been called strip mining on steroids. One author says the process should be more accurately named: mountain range removal. Mountaintop removal /valley fill mining annihilates ecosystems, transforming some of the most biologically diverse temperate forests in the world into biologically barren moonscapes.
Please take a moment to visit their website and make a donation: www.MountainJusticeSummer.org
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Green Roofs Conference 2006
Published December 29th, 2005 in Landscape Architecture, Ecology, Events
Green Roofs for Healthy Cities (GRHC) and the City of Boston are pleased to announce the…
Fourth Annual Greening Rooftops for Sustainable Communities, Conference, Awards & Trade Show
May 11-12, 2006 - Boston, MA
Learn from dynamic plenary and concurrent sessions featuring presentations by green roof experts from around the world…
Explore what's new in green roof technology, products, and services with over 75 trade show exhibitors…
Network with more than 800 global green roof leaders in all areas of green roofs: Design; Research; Policy; Contracting; Building…
Participate in the 2006 Green Roof Awards of Excellence - nominate your green roof projects now!
Islands in the Salish Sea
Published December 29th, 2005 in Book Review
A new book has recently been released: " Islands in the Salish Sea: A Community Atlas"
From the publisher's website:
At Last! The love and painstaking work of over 3,000 islanders, from Saturna to Cortes, can now be appreciated by a wider audience.
During a five year period, The Islands in the Salish Sea Community Mapping Project engaged the help of enthusiastic local groups to gather information on everything from oral history with elders to scientific data. More than 30 local artists then brought these layers of accumulated information to life in vividly unique and extraordinary maps. The result is a powerful array of mixed media art forms reflecting not only the islands’ outstanding beauty, but also human elements of culture and diversity in a rapidly developing and fragile region.
This extraordinary collection portrays these popular islands, linking art, science, and local knowledge into an innovative, millennial atlas, including how each map came to be. Additional chapters describe the origins and strengths of the discipline of artistic community mapping, the unfolding of the mapping project from first spark to proud finale, and also the history and character of the islands.
You can order it here through Heritage House Publishers:
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