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Urban Harvest

Confronting climate change and poverty, a new crop of city farmers comes of age in Africa. Table of Contents | Digital Edition
Guardian Environmental Network
By Matt Landon
Kingston Coal Diary, February 7-10
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February 26, 2009: February 7United Mountain Defense volunteers started working on compiling a comprehensive list of all of the video tapes they have recorded to date. UMD volunteer Tom Swinford has volunteered to start the task of converting... read more >
Kingston Coal Disaster Diary, February 3-6
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February 18, 2009: February 3Diana Anderson of the Tennessee Coal Ash Survivors Network and Matt Landon of United Mountain Defense arose bright and early, fought the Washington D.C. traffic, and caught our flight back to the big city of... read more >
Kingston Coal Disaster Diary, January 31-February 2
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February 13, 2009: January 31Diana Anderson of the TN Coal Ash Survivors Network and Matt Landon of United Mountain Defense traveled to Deleware today to receive training from the Global Community Monitor (GCM) organization. Matt Landon of UMD... read more >
Kingston Coal Disaster Diary, January 27-30
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February 10, 2009: January 27United Mountain Defense volunteer staff person, Matt Landon called all of the regulatory agencies to report the problems of coal ash tracking. Landon called TN Highway Patrol, TN Bureau of Investigation, Bob... read more >
Kingston Coal Disaster Diary, January 23-26
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February 4, 2009: January 23United Mountain Defense volunteers have been waiting to get new carpet put in the UMD volunteer house since we had an indoor flood on sunday night. We've still been helping organize between vacumming water and... read more >
Kingston Coal Disaster Diary, January 21-22
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January 29, 2009: January 21Today volunteers for United Mountain Defense traveled to Harriman, TN for a media messaging workshop. There were a few local residents who attended the media training. It was a very effective session where the... read more >
Kingston Coal Disaster Diary, January 18-20
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January 28, 2009: January 18United Mountain Defense's Harriman field team traveled to Knoxville for a board meeting that also served as a planning meeting for the next week. It was good to see our Knoxville friends and catch up on the latest... read more >
Kingston Coal Disaster Diary, January 15-17
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January 27, 2009: January 15Volunteers from United Mountain Defense went down to the American Legion and opened the doors at 10 AM to gather the samples from the Tuesday Jan 13, 2009 human heavy metal screening. The doors opened there was a... read more >
Kingston Coal Disaster Diary, January 12-14
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January 20, 2009: January 12It was nice to wake up in my own bed this morning though I as I laid there I couldn't figure out if I was in Knoxville or Harriman. It was one of those moments when I was trying to decide to be happy about... read more >
Kingston Coal Disaster Diary, January 10-11
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January 16, 2009: January 10Volunteers with United Mountain Defense took Dr. Avner Vengosh and graduate student, Laura Ruhl of Duke University out into the field again today to gather more water and coal ash samples. We mainly focused our... read more >
Matt Landon
Matt is a full-time volunteer with United Mountain Defense.