Not everything can be recycled but pollution and waste can be managed.
Pollution & Waste
Mountain Top Removal - A Crime Against More Than Nature
By: Amanda Sandos - 
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“Every time you turn on a light switch, BOOM, you’re blowing up someone’s back yard.” I was introduced to Ed Wiley, the extraordinary man just quoted, by Kathy Mattea backstage at the Mountain Aid Benefit Concert. She came out to Shakori Hills on her fiftieth birthday to help Ed raise money for his granddaughter and all the children of Marsh Fork Elementary School who are victims of mountain top removal coal mining. Just three hundred feet behind this school, there is a 1,849 acre mountain top removal sight with an unstable slate dam holding 2.8 billion gallons of toxic waste from the coal cleaning process. The community’s water supply is already contaminated, and the children of Marsh Fork Elementary have been going home sick on a regular basis for months. Read More »
There’s Another Kind of Clean Coal Plant
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My little clean coal plant is doing pretty well.
I planted it outside my house earlier this spring. I thought it was dead. But after some watering and sun, it has bounced back.
There are little green needles on this clean coal plant. Read More »
Athens Says Yes to Gray Water*
By: Victoria Vazquez - Print This Post
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The Athens-Clarke County (ACC) Commission voted May 5, 2009 to remove their ban on using gray water for outdoor watering by hand. The Georgia Department of Human Resources Division of Public Health defines gray water as “wastewater generated by water-using fixtures and appliances, excluding water closets, urinals, bidets, kitchen sinks and garbage disposals.” Read More »
