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Apr.05.2012
"I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating."-- W. Somerset Maugham
When I was in high school and in college I worked at the Canton Ice and Fuel Company, the Ice Plant. It was hard physical labor and of...
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Dec.21.2011
December 21
Not My Best Friend
No matter how tightly I hug a lump of coal I will not prevail in turning it into a diamond. Some days I accept this better than others. My desire may affect the coal, but this affect is not diamond producing; though it...
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Jun.16.2010
UpheldHave you noticed
how good it feels
to carry a book?
Just one, with it
held between your
palm and fingers
on one side and
your pressuring thumb
on the other.
Something good
will come from this,
or likely to.
Once, a grade-school teacher
asked me to bring the
dictionary from the school
library...
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May.20.2010
posted at Huffington Post, May 20, 2010
This is the scene, when the coal-fired electricity that lights up New York City's neon theatre district lowers on stage:
We are inside the home of Marie and Hovie, a young couple living in the mountain holler of Eagle Creek. With their family's 150-year-old...
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Feb.28.2010
Huffington Post, Feb. 16, 2010
No American leader has done more to advance a clean energy future than President Obama. Nor has any American president done more to invoke a mandate for stricter workplace safety and environmental regulations.
And yet, ever since President Obama first visited my native...
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Dec.09.2009
posted on Huffingtonpost, Dec. 9, 2009
As world leaders gather for the Copenhagen Climate Summit, we plan to make our own Copenhagen pledge here at home: It's time to envision a coal-free future. It's time for clean energy independence.
For starters, here in Kentucky we disagree with Commerce...
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Nov.25.2009
posted at Huffington Post, Nov. 23, 2009
<em>If the Obama administration is unwilling or unable to stop the massive environmental destruction of historic mountain ranges and essential drinking water for a relatively tiny amount of coal, can we honestly believe they will be able to phase out...
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Aug.26.2009
Last fall, Tom Zeller at The New York Times Green Inc. blog wrote an eye-opening piece on a possible Indian government and corporate venture in Appalachia's coal mines. And as the Sierra Club's Carl Pope pointed out, an even bigger coal story took place this week in India. Members of parliament...
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Jan.05.2009
About eighty miles from where I grew up and spent the first eighteen years of my life and forty miles from where my father lives now (and where I lived and worked for three years) in Knoxville, Tennessee, fifteen homeowners escaped with only their lives when a sludge of coal ash broke through an...
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