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With the help of a dynamic group of academics, business leaders, and activists, Solutions has recently released a special issue dedicated to creating a brighter future for Appalachia. A new conversation is emerging in Central Appalachian coal country. Many groups are exploring how the region can grow a more diverse and more sustainable economy by reforesting barren mine lands, reclaiming rivers and streams, developing renewable energy industries, and supporting the region's many entrepreneurs. This discussion goes beyond the important goal of creating a restorative enterprise economy; it also includes investing in the region's social capital. Including a diverse range of perspectives, rich historical accounts, and detailed descriptions of solutions already in place on the ground, this Solutions special issue is Appalachia’s playbook for an economic and environmental transition.
All content will be available online at the Solutions website. Links to articles in the Appalachia special issue will be posted to this page, and we will encourage authors to use this forum to answer reader questions.
Look out for articles by Wendell Berry, Ecological Design expert John Todd, and Vernon Haltom of Coal River Mountain Watch.
As always, we welcome and encourage the involvement of our readers and invite you to use this online forum to contribute your own thoughts on the future of Appalachia.
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In anticipation of our upcoming special issue on "Getting to 350", we'll be posting to this page on topics related to climate change, 350ppm, and energy policy. As the special issue becomes available...
The purpose of this forum is to explore big questions about society and environmental change, such as
What does the good life mean in the 21st Century?
How do personal choices and values play a role...
The Need for Designing the Future Collaboratively:
To Whom the Future of the Earth Might Concern.
I propose that the differences that there exist among all our ideas--ideas of all who share this...
December's Copenhagen Climate Conference was a critical and controversial moment in our struggle to contain man-made global warming. The conference is over, ending in a non-binding international...
This is the University of Vermont Solutions Group. We are based in and around Burlington, VT, USA. Many of our members are associated with UVM, but we are not exclusively a UVM Group. We welcome...
We are a group of people in the Montpelier area who are interested in innovative solutions to our unique challenges. Montpelier is the smallest capitol of any state in the USA and we're proud of that...
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Director of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics; Gordon and Lulie Gund Professor of Ecological Economics; and co-founder of the International Society for Ecological Economics.
Founder of the international climate campaign 350.org; scholar in residence at Middlebury College.
Professor Ostrom is Co-Director of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis and Professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. Professor Ostrom won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics.
Adjunct Professor at Duke University; Visiting Professor at the University of Vermont, the University of Cape Town and the United Nations University; Honorary Visiting Fellow of Green College (Oxford), External Fellow of the James Martin Institute, and Visiting Professor at the Oxford Centre for the Environment.
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Exploring solutions presented in our special July/August issue on Appalachia
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Bowdoin College's Phil Camill offers a fresh perspective to the issues surrounding environmental change.
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This is the University of Vermont Solutions Group. We are based in and around Burlington, VT.
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Carbon Farming
Revisionist History !?!
Great insite to a sometimes forgotten area!
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