This sounds like a very creative and effective use of Google Earth as an environmental advocacy tool.
Environmental advocacy group Appalachian Voices has joined to Google to deliver a special interactive layer for Google Earth that tells the stories of over 470 mountains that have been destroyed from coal mining, and its impact on nearby ecosystems.
I hope their layer includes links to ways to take action.
Check out this great victory we had last week in federal court. A judge threw out 5 mountaintop removal mining permits, putting in doubt the government’s ability to legally permit the more than 60 pending MTR permits in Appalachia. Learn more at: http://www.stopmountaintopremoval.org/breaking-news.html
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