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Appalachian Summer 2008 Voice The future of America’s Best Whitewater Plus: • How Green is your Campus? • Cougars Abound! Or Do They? • The Cost of Wind vs. Coal Power APP A L A CHI A N VOICE PA GE 3 APPALACHIAN VOICE INSIDE THIS ISSUE A publication of How GREEN is your Campus? Big Trouble on There are many ways to find out how green your • Institute Green fees — A green fee of $5 to $20 191 Howard Street school is. The US EPA has a green power challenge for is part of the student activities fees in hundreds the Gauley River colleges, and Princeton Review has a rating system. of colleges, funding recycling bins, building Boone, NC 28607 Photo by Michael Sawyer ............................................. See story on p.12 There are also a dozen ways to make your school conservation, biodiesel fueling and many 1-877-APP-VOICE www.AppalachianVoices.org greener. And there are new funding initiatives other programs. APPALACHIAN VOICES through the Dept. of Education for financing green • Hold Eco-Olympics — Duke university holds Appalachian Voices brings people together to solve the initiatives at the college and K-12 school level. one every year for energy, waste and water environmental problems having the greatest impact on the Hawks Nest Tunnel The First Disaster on the Gauley reduction — www.duke.edu/web/env_alli- central and southern Appalachian Mountains. Our mission Going green? ance/games is to empower people to defend our region’s rich natural and .............................................. See story on p.15 • Organize — Find groups on campus at www. • Sign up for courses in renewable energy — and cultural heritage by providing them with tools and strategies climatechallenge.org sustainability. for successful grassroots campaigns. Appalachian Voices Excerpt from The Book of the Dead A poem about the Gauley disaster • Create a symbol — For example, Appalachian State sponsors the Upper Watauga Riverkeeper® and is also a • Ask your university to join the Association for By Muriel Rukeyser, 1938 University’s solar Christmas tree. the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Member of the Waterkeeper® Alliance. These roads will take you into your own country… • President’s Climate Commitment — Ask your uni- Education (AASHE). All these men cry their doom across the world, versity president to sign the Climate Commitment. • Create an office of sustainability — This has EDITOR Bill Kovarik Meeting avoidable death, fight against madness, become standard on campuses. The AASHE has ASSOCI A T E EDITOR Matt Wasson Find every war. standards and guildelines. ASSOCI A T E EDITOR Mary Ann Hitt Are known as strikers, soldier, pioneers, Top 10 Green Colleges Resources EDITORI A L BO A RD CH A IR Harvard Ayers Fight on all new frontiers, are set in solid • Buy green power — Its possible now to buy power Lines of defense… UNC Chapel Hill .................................96 President’s Climate Commitment from renewable sources. www.presidentsclimatecommitment.org Fanatic cruel legend at our back and Warren Wilson (NC) ...........................95 Appalachian Voices Staff • Buy green products — Everything from recycled Speeding ahead the red and open west, Elon (NC) ............................................94 Association for the Advancement of And this our region, paper to regionally grown food. Sustainability in Higher Education EX E CUTIV E DIR E CTOR Mary Anne Hitt U.Memphis (TN) .................................94 Desire, field, beginning. Name and road, www.aashe.org ONS E RV A TION IR E CTOR James Madison (VA) ..........................93 • Build green buildings — The Leadership in Energy C D Matt Wasson Communication to these many men, Duke (NC) ...........................................93 and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building US Green Building Council CA MP A IGN DIR E CTOR Lenny Kohm As epilogue, seeds of unending love. www.usgbc.org UVA .....................................................92 Rating System is a national standard. Green build- OP E R A TIONS MA N A G E R Susan Congelosi Photo Submitted NC State .............................................90 ings on campus save money and also serve as an EPA Green Power Challenge IN-HOUS E COUNS E L Scott Gollwitzer VA Tech ...............................................90 educational example. www.epa.gov/greenpower/partners/hi_ed_challenge.htm ASSOCI A T E DIR E CTOR Shelly Connor Trampling the Promised Land .................................................p. 6 Berea (KY) ..........................................89 TE CHNOLOGIST Benji Burrell * From ratings by Princeton Review for NC, VA, TN and KY. LE GISL A TIV E ASSOCI A T E J.W. Randolph Across Appalachia .....................................................................p. 9 NA TION A L FI E LD COORDIN A TOR Sandra Diaz VA CA MP A IGN COORDIN A TOR Tom Cormons A High Water Year on the New & Gauley Rivers ..................p. 16 THE EASTErn BAnD’S nEW K-12 CAmPUS VA FI E LD ORG A NIZ E R Mike McCoy The greening of a Cherokee school IT SP E CI A LIST Jeff Deal The Long Term Cost of Coal vs. Wind Power .......................p. 18 By Margaret V. Williams to teach the students about [green issues] while they’re Certain public toilets will flush with water stored in UPP E R WA T A UG A RIV E RK ee P E R Donna Lisenby experiencing it.” two 30,000-gallon cisterns that will harvest rainwater off Editorials and letters ..................................................................p. 19 Seen from high above, the new school might re- The school features natural daylight -- whether from the roof. Lights will have sensors, so that if the natural mind you of the outline of the Big Dipper -- a short its expansive use of windows or its use of solar tunnels light is sufficient, they turn off or dim correspondingly. For Our Members - Appalachian Voices ...................................p. 20 handle with two circles at the end. Zoom in, and that bring light to interior rooms and gymnasiums. Heating and cooling will come from a geothermal sys- Launches Upper Watauga Riverkeeer you see the circles are two-story buildings tem of almost 300 wells that transfers the ringing huge, one-acre courtyards, and the earth’s temperatures from the depths. In- Naturalist’s Notebook - Cougars .............................................p. 23 handle holds a stadium and athletic field. terior woodwork will feature the walnut, Appalachian Voices Board of Directors The rooflines slope, curve and swell like the cherry, sycamore, white oak and other surrounding mountains; landscaped walk- trees harvested onsite that totaled about ways wind between stone-trimmed build- 96,000 board feet. Landscaping will feature CHAIR Lamar Marshall Cover photo: ings; windows soar skyward at entrances. native plants, especially those important VI C E CHAIR Brenda Huggins Martin Talbot of Quebec, Canada enjoys Pillow Rock Rapid on the Upper Gauley When finished, the K-12 campus will to Cherokee culture, such as river cane for TREASURER Harvard Ayers River on the afternoon of September 22, 2007, during last year’s Gauley River Fes- tival. The little dragon on the top of his helmet is typical of the humor that whitewa- be one of the largest “green” schools east of basket-making, and traditional herbs and At Large: Leigh Dunston, Steve Novak, Andy Brown, ter enthusiasts bring to their sport. Will whitewater enthusiasts continue to flock to the Mississippi. plants used for dye. Janice Nease, Dean Whitworth, Jim Webb, Sarah Wootton, the Gauley and New Rivers in the future? Communities that thrive on eco-tourisim The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indi- The overall curriculum – from elemen- Heidi Binko, Brenda Boozer, Kathy Selvage, Pat Watkins, in the region are worried about the expansion of mountaintop removal mining, ans “are stewards of the land. We always tary to high-school grades – also features Bunk Spann, Matthew Anderson-Stembridge, Steve Ferguson which many people believe poses a threat. Photo by Michael Sawyer have been. We all are,” says Dr. Carmaleta issues, traditions and activities important Monteith, school design coordinator for to the Cherokee, whether it’s stickball or the tribe’s Central Schools Board. A native the native language, Monteith emphasizes. APPALACHIAN VOICES VOLUNTEERS: Allen Johnson, April Crowe, Avi Askey, Bent Mountain Branch Library, Beth Davies, Elizabeth Vines, Beth Dixon, Bill and a semi-retired school administrator, Educating children about environmental Wasserman, Blue Ridge Mountain Sports, Bonnie Aker, Brenda Huggins, Larry Huggins, Carol Rollman, Catherine Murray, Charlie Bowles, Chris Chanlett, Mount Rogers Monteith has helped the board negotiate issues and preparing them for the high- Outfitters, Dave Gilliam, Dave Muhley, Donna Muhley, Dean Whitworth, Deez Beez Books, Dennis Murphy, Detta Davis, Diamond Brand Sports, Dr. Emanuel Mornings, the challenges of building a much-needed tech needs of the 21st century also figure Dr. Richard Roth, Ed Clark, Frances Lamberts, Garielle Zeiger, Gail Marney, General Lewis Inn, Gerry Scardo, Joe Scardo, Great Smoky Mountains Institute, Harvard new school -- from its design to its cultural large, she explains. “We want to train them Ayers, Helen Clark, Jim Shumate, Highland Hiker, Jane Branham, Jennifer Honeycutt, Jim Dentinger, Jennifer Stertzer, Jere Bidwell, Jeremy Stout, John Wrestler, Julian and environmental curriculum. “One of the for leadership roles,” Monteith says. Martin, Kathleen Colburn, Kathy Selvage, Ken Schaal, Kim Greene McClure, Kirsty Zahnke, Lewisburg Library, Linda