Watch this ViceTV series on how mountaintops are removed to get to coal in West Virginia (instead of mining it underground, they now just rip the tops off gorgeous mountains, because it’s faster, apparently).
Impressive reporting (the coal company exec. is just as bad as you’d think) and video. Check out the whole series on Vice.
Starre Vartan is the founder and editor-in-chief of Eco-Chick and author of The Eco-Chick Guide to Life (St. Martin's Press). A problogger and oft-quoted green living expert who has been featured in the NYTimes, Elle, Glamour and Whole Living, she is a contributor to The Huffington Post, Inhabitat, and Hearst's The Daily Green, and is currently editor-at-large for Coco Eco Magazine. An active ecofashionista, she has style edited for Plenty magazine and coordinated runway shows. She splits her time between Connecticut and NYC and calls Sydney, Australia her second home, even though it was her first (as that's where she was born and most of her family resides). When not writing, blogging, or researching her next book, she is trailrunning, trying to cook, or snowboarding.
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This was an insanely good series on mtn top removal. Good find Starre.
03/14/07 » 9:06 pm »
Modern Hiker - 60% Geek, 40% Granola » ViceTV on Mountaintop Removal
[...] Eco-Chick was kind enough to embed the first episode of the series, which has some nice production value to it. Well worth checking out. [...]
03/27/07 » 1:05 pm »