Hello Carl and everyone;
Someone just sent me the link to this most excellent video. Thank you very much.
I am forwarding it to others and posting it on the Transition Ohio and Transition US ning sites:
transitionohio.ning.com
transitionus.ning.com

Very grateful to Carl and Paul for putting this out there. We met when I was in Yellow Springs to share my concerns and objections about building another power plant here when the city council was deliberating on whether to buy into coal contracts for one of the proposed facilities or not. Thank you to the people of Yellow Springs (and Oberlin and others) for choosing "not" and actively pursuing ways to generate their electricity in ways that does not require further contamination of our precious resources. No solution is a solution if it sacrifices one community to save another. The clock is ticking in Meigs County - we are up against critical challenges to transition our community away from coal toward a healthy, sustainable future, or become a virtually unlivable coal colony. We currently have the highest lung cancer death rate in the state according to the American Cancer Society, despite being a remote, rural, farming community. Harvard studies say we have the shortest live expectancy in the state (our ancestors lived well into their 90's - current life expectancy 70.2), and a recent USA Today report showed that with the VOC's being released by currently existing industry around us we rank in the top 3rd percentile for the worst air quality in the nation. There is a lot of pride in the fact that we generate the electricity that a major area of our country is run from. I believe we can find ways to continue doing that, moving toward energy independence that makes us real leaders in the renewable energy future. That future will be driven by our choice to do so now, or by necessity when that last lump of coal has been drilled, blasted and drug out from beneath us in Appalachia. It's a choice, and we need your help and support. I'm not against jobs or generating energy, but I do believe every dollar we throw to sequester into that bottomless clean coal pit is a dollar kept from from moving us toward a truly clean, healthy, sustainable future for our children and grandchildern. If you are interested in supporting us in this transition, please be in touch: meigscan@yahoo.com or call (740)-416-2694.

Related Links:
youtube.com/watch?v=TAn8npjd0pw

youtube.com/watch?v=dU2ZUA8oyoA&feature=related

campusprogress.org/asktheexpert/3751/ask-the-expert-anti-coal-activist-elisa-young

oberlin.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/ocreview/20090306.php?a=n_Power_Company&sec=news


Here's to a clean energy future for the next 7 generations!
Elisa Young
Meigs County, Ohio
meigscan.org