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CALIFORNIA: YEAH, a youth homeless shelter in Berkeley, CA
Ken and Melanie Light visit the YEAH, a youth homeless shelter in Berkeley, CA, as part of Do1Thing. Ken Light: Ken is a social documentary photographer whose work has appeared in books, magazines and exhibitions. Light has spent much of his 35 year long photographic career working in a black-and-white documentary mode, with the hope that photographic evidence will make a political difference. He has worked with many NGO's who have used his images to tell the story of the communities he has documented in brochures, posters and on-line, trying to impact social conditions. His work has been focused on America. As well his work has been published in book form by Aperture, The Smithsonian Institution and University of California Press. His seven books include Coal Hollow, Delta Time, Texas Death Row, To The Promised Land, With These Hands and the text Witness In Our Time. His new work was exhibited last year in a one-person show at the International Center for Photography. He is represented by the Barry Singer Gallery. Melanie Light is an author and multi-media dabbler. She is a co-author of “Coal Hollow” and the founding executive director of Fotovision, a nonprofit that provides community and education for documentary photographers. She has written about documentary photographers in catalogs for exhibitions at the Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach, SF Camerawork and the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, among others. Produced by Ken and Melanie Light for the Do1Thing Project http://do1thing.org
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Mountaintop Removal - Rainforest Action Network Campaign for Appalachia Mountains
Rainforest Action Network's continues their campaign to end the Mountaintop Removal (MTR) of the Appalachia Mountains with a benefit to raise money and awareness. Obama and the EPA have not fulfilled their promises to end the coal mining process which 1) causes irreversible environmental impact, 2) has lost more than 10,000 jobs since the technique's inception, and 3) causes asthma, birth defects and cancer among Appalachian residents.
Articles
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Lumps of Coal Aren't Only For Scrooge
While a lot of people look to new forms of energy, they tend to forget about the ones we have now. NASA climate scientist James Hansen says, “If we were to h... -
China Admits That Coal Power "Might" Cause Pollution
China has never been known as the most environmentally friendly nation. Because of this, it's no surprise that China is playing coy on emissions control.
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Giant pond of coal ash escapes, floods Tennessee homes
Millions of yards of ashy sludge broke through a dike at TVA's Kingston coal-fired plant Monday, covering hundreds of acres.
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A major coal industry group has spent an estimated $45 million on an ongoing advertising campaign promoting the clean energy potential of coal.
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Toxic Pollution Shouldn't Pay: Activists Launch effort to get Coal Industry to Come Clean
National campaign aims to raise awareness of the devastating effects of coal.
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New Coal Plants Would Create Nearly 18 Million Tons of Waste Annually
New Analysis Ranks "Filthy 15" States by Coal Ash Produced by Proposed Plants
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DC Rising Tide Disrupts Coal-to-Liquids Conference
Local activists with DC Rising Tide and their allies interrupted a coal industry conference today to denounce coal-to-liquids as a corporate scam.
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U.S. power plants to burn slightly less coal in 2009
According to a report released today by the U.S. Energy Information Administration, U.S. power plants will burn 2.6 percent less coal in 2009 than last year.
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Is clean coal an oxymoron? Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. says that President Obama is only buying into coal and carbon because of the need for political contributions.
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Coal Ash Secret Locations Remain Hidden
The Department of Homeland Security is refusing to release the locations of 44 coal ash sites that would prove hazardous to populations if they fail.
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Coal Ash: 130 Million Tons of Toxic Waste Each Year
Experts assure the public that coal ash is as safe as dirt, but last time I checked dirt doesn't contain radioactive levels of arsenic or mercury.
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Greenpeace Protesters Acquitted In Criminal-Damage Case
Six Greenpeace protesters were acquitted of $53,000 worth of damages by a British court today. The activists climbed a 650 foot coal-plant chimney last year ...
Blog posts
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Waterkeepers Return to Coal Ash Spill in TN
Tennessee Aquarium, Appalachian State University and Watauga Riverkeeper staff members returned to the site of the recent coal ash spill in TN. The spill dumped 5.4 million cubic yards of coal comb...
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Coal River Valley Residents Demand Prevention of Blasting Coal River Mountain
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – At noon seven people will deliver a letter of concerns and personal statements regarding Massey Energy’s imminent mountaintop removal coal mining on Coal River Mountain to Joe M...
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Autism, leftovers and warmed up Turkey... Collateral Damage, Legacy, and the Old Guard
I was just contemplating leftovers. This year we avoided Thanksgiving all together. It is not a pleasant experience for us. The family gets together at somebodies house. Tanner is not comfortable a...
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Who'd a-thunk that a search engine company would help save the world? Or, at least, document the saving – and/or plundering – of the world. Well, that's just what Google has done with Google Earth'...
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Eco Maniac: The Greenies Are Coming!
Enviros are pretty psyched about the stimulus bill that will soon be law. Of the $789 billion, somewhere between $60 and $80 billion of that is tagged for clean energy, research and other environme...
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REVEL is never a party to be missed, and this year was no different
Posted by Branden on October 16th, 2009 Surrounded by larger-than life rainforest photos draped from the walls of the gorgeous Bentley Reserve the who’s who of the environmental movement gathere...
