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Mountaintop winery in Roanoke Valley up for sale
2014-08-27 16:15:03| Real Estate - Topix.net
Real estate agent Zack McCoy tells The Roanoke Times that the winery has been on the market since last November.
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New York state firm tapped for mountaintop project
2014-07-24 18:07:00| American School & University
Lehigh University of Bethleham, Pa., has selected EYP Architecture & Engineering of Albany, N.Y., to lead a multi-phase project at its Mountaintop campus. The project will repurpose two former Bethlehem Steel research facilities, which have about 160,000 square feet of space, into collaboration spaces, studios, workshops and laboratories, as well housing and dining facilities. The buildings were originally constructed in the 1950s and 1960s for the company’s research activities. Schoolhouse Beat
New York state firm tapped for mountaintop project
2014-07-24 18:07:00| American School & University
Lehigh University of Bethlehem, Pa., has selected EYP Architecture & Engineering of Albany, N.Y., to lead a multi-phase project at its Mountaintop campus. The project will repurpose two former Bethlehem Steel research facilities, which have about 160,000 square feet of space, into collaboration spaces, studios, workshops and laboratories, as well housing and dining facilities. The buildings were originally constructed in the 1950s and 1960s for the company’s research activities. Schoolhouse Beat
Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Decimates Fish Populations in Appalachia
2014-07-10 14:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: A study from researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) published this month provides strong new evidence that mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia is devastating downstream fish populations. Thats hardly news for long-time followers of the controversy surrounding mountaintop removal, a coal mining practice that involves blowing off the tops of mountains to access thin seams of coal and dumping the waste into valleys below. In 2010, a group of 13 prestigious biologists published...
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Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining: Five Things You Need to Know
2014-06-05 01:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Rainforest Action Network: A few days ago, I sat down for an interview with the good folks at Living on Earth, Public Radio International`s weekly environmental news show. We talked about RAN`s work fighting mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining in Appalachia, and the banks that fund it. From that interview, here are five things you need to know: MTR destroys some of the most biodiverse ecosystems in the U.S. The first step in blowing the top off a mountain is clear cutting the forest off the top of it--some of the most...