470 mountains destroyed for coal

Looking for a website to get you motivated about the ongoing environmental crisis confronting our state, country and planet? Then check out I Love Mountains.org. It's a very cool (and sobering) site run by the group Appalachian Voices out of Boone. The group has done an excellent job creating a kind of 3-D, visual catalog of all of the Appalachian mountain tops that have literally been permanently destroyed as part of the voracious search for coal that continues to plunder, poison and impoverish the Appalachians and the people that live there.

Not only can you use Google Earth to trace the electricity fueling your computer right now to the mountains that were leveled to help produce it, you can see what mountain destruction really looks like — as well as the mushrooming lunar landscape it is helping to produce.  

It ought to be required viewing for officials at Duke and Progress Energy.