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The 4-Fold Attack: Google Earth+ YouTube + Online Pledges + Willie Nelson
Did you know that more than 450 mountains have been destroyed, and over 1,000 miles of streams have been buried by mountaintop removal coal mining?
Appalachian Voices, Coal River Mountain Watch, Keeper of the Mountains Foundation, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, Save Our Cumberland Mountains, and Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards have created the I Love Mountains campaign to stop mountaintop removal.
Supporters can:
1. Sign a pledge, track the impact of their pledge on a map, and possibly be listed as one of the campaign's Most Active Participants (people who have passed the email on to the greatest number of friends).
2. Download Wille Nelson singing Bob Dylan's "Blowing in the Wind."
3. Watch a movie about mountaintop removal on YouTube.
4. View the National Memorial for the Mountains on Google Earth. Each flag represents a mountain that has been destroyed.
They definitely have a great Buzz Director. Check out all the press they've gotten.
Hat tip to Jayne Cravens for the story.
Photo credit: Eastern Kentucky Mountains by Colin Mutchler.
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- Thanks, Joe!
1 week 3 hours ago - Late to thank you for this incredible post
3 weeks 5 days ago - Thank you!
3 weeks 6 days ago
Thanks for your support!
Thanks Britt! The people and landscape of Appalachia need all the help we can get right now.
About our "Buzz Director"
We've worked hard to create an online presence. We hired a brilliant college student to run our blog, make contacts with people on other blogs, and generally get the word with net promo. We also launched ads on popular progressive blogs.
We're working on the "participation" part of all our web endeavor. We encourage feedback on almost all our posts, and aim to provide different ways for people to interact online, like blogs, discussion forums, adding photos/stories to our National Memorial for the Mountains http://www.ilovemountains.org/memorial/, etc.
Last but not least, our online campaign has been so successful because there are hundreds of people all around our region doing everything they know how to drum up support in the local, state, national, and international arenas. Without them, www.ilovemountains.org would not be on anyones radar screen. After all, www.ilovemountains.org is for them, and is just one piece of the puzzle.
Thanks again!
Great job.
Just wanted to congratulate you for making a fantastic campaign site -- it's got smart and fearless thinking written all over it. (Plus, this particular issue enrages me no end -- decapitating billion-year-old mountains? And then killing entire watersheds with the "fill"? There are better ways to keep the lights on, for god's sake.)
ilovemountains.org experiments with all the things the big, national npo's should be experimenting with, and largely are not. Keep telling all of us about how things are going -- you'll be able to teach us all a thing or two.