{"id":22849,"date":"2014-03-02T15:44:06","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T15:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/?p=323950"},"modified":"2014-03-02T15:44:06","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T15:44:06","slug":"its-time-to-move-beyond-dirty-coal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/its-time-to-move-beyond-dirty-coal\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Time to Move Beyond Dirty Coal"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Post Carbon Institute<\/a>, Sierra Club<\/a>, Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition<\/a> and AlterNet<\/a> have partnered to show what’s at stake in the fight against coal<\/a> with a powerful slideshow<\/a> of recent coal disasters including the Freedom Industries<\/a> chemical spill, Duke Energy ash spill<\/a>, West Virginia slurry spill<\/a>, mountaintop removal mining<\/a> and more.<\/p>\n

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After viewing this slideshow, read essays<\/a> from The Energy Reader<\/a>, <\/em>which <\/em>includes more than 30 essays by some of the most insightful and expert voices exploring the consequences of our rapacious hunger for ever more energy<\/a>. Contributors include Bill McKibben<\/a>, Wendell Berry, Wes Jackson, Vandana Shiva<\/a>, Richard Heinberg<\/a>, Lester Brown<\/a>, Amory Lovins, Sandra Steingraber<\/a>, James Hansen, Winona LaDuke and James Woolsey. Collectively, they offer a wake-up call about the future of energy and what each of us can do to change course.<\/p>\n

Visit EcoWatch’s COAL<\/a> and WATER<\/a> pages for more related news on this topic.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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