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Energize Appalachia

October 17, 2017 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Join Appalachian Voices on Tuesday, October 17, 2017, at 7:00 p.m. for Energize Appalachia, an evening about energy transition in Appalachia and beyond.

The event will feature: award-winning journalist, author and long-time Appalachian Voices board member Clara Bingham, who will screen her film The Last Mountain, which premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival; a short film by the Light House students; and a panel discussion with Clara, Kate Boyle of Appalachian Voices, and Logan Landry from Sigora Solar. This event is free and open to the public.

About Energize Appalachia

For more than a century, Appalachian coal built our infrastructure, our universities, and powered our technological advancement. But it came at an enormous cost for mountain communities. Coal companies have blown up more than 500 of the oldest, most biologically rich mountains in the world and buried over 2,000 miles of headwater streams. Appalachian communities located near mountaintop removal mines have double the cancer rates of nearby counties with no mining activity.

Now, with the Trump administration’s commitment to revive the coal industry, West Virginia’s Coal River Mountain—known as the Last Mountain—is facing renewed threats from mountaintop removal mining.

Appalachian Voices is working to Energize Appalachia by putting solar power on schools, low-income housing communities, hospitals, and old mountaintop removal mine sites in the heart of Southwest Virginia’s coal country. By creating a clean energy economy in the coalfields, we can build more vibrant, healthy communities for future generations.

TO RSVP: fill out our form online, join our Facebook event, or contact Susan Kruse susan@appvoices.org

Details

Date:
October 17, 2017
Time:
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Event Category:
Website:
http://appvoices.org/energize-appalachia/

Venue

Light House Studios @ Vinegar Hill Theatre
220 West Market St
Charlottesville, VA United States
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Organizer

Appalachian Voices
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