Chris Bolgiano and Marcia Bonta talk about some of the threats to natural world they love so much, and what to do about it (Part 2 of 2)
In this second part of our phone conversation, Chris shares some instructive and sobering tales from her years as an environmental writer. Topics include: what we can learn from German foresters; anti-Appalachian prejudice in the nature-writing community; mountaintop removal and the insidious ways of Big Coal; global climate change and how — or whether — to talk about it; Big Wind vs. distributed generation; rooftop solar and the feed-in tariff system.
Links:
- Chris’s article “In the fatherland of forestry: Baron Alexander von Elverfeldt’s forest management approach”
- Gifford Pinchot (Wikipedia)
- Nature writing according to the Wikipedia
- Orion Magazine
- Mountaintop removal coal mining (Appalachian Voices)
- The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation’s Appalachian Wildlands Initiative
- Judy Bonds – Goldman Environmental Prize
- “Climate Change Study Foresees a Warmer, Wetter Pennsylvania”
- “Gone With the Windmills?” (Chris’s article on wind turbines in national forests, reprinted at Via Negativa)
- “A chat with Sen. Bernie Sanders on his 10 million solar roofs bill” (Grist.org)
- Marcia’s article on the “green” house we built in Plummer’s Hollow
Theme music: “Le grand sequoia,” by Innvivo (Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike licence)