The Appalachian Transition Initiative seeks to create more conversation and heightened awareness around the need for and strategies to achieve a more diversified economy in Central Appalachia. We feel that we are in a unique moment that calls for new ideas and broad participation in shaping a different kind of future. We invited several leaders and experts to write essays that identify the key challenges, opportunities and action items needed to build a sustainable regional economy. The essays below are the result of this constructive, positive, action-oriented exercise.
Naming the Successes of Mountain People: Remembering the Rural Past for a Rural Future
By Marie Cirillo
Check is in the Mail
By Dee Davis
Soil as a Pillar for a New Appalachian Economy
By Samir K Doshi and John H Todd
Want Real Economic Transitioning for Appalachia? Draw on Best Ideas from All Sectors!
By Gaye Evans with Kathy Jennings-Johnson and Margo Miller
The Transition of Appalachia and the Transformation of Prosperity in the United States
By Anthony Flaccavento
Reconstructed Hope
By Robert H. Giles, Jr., PhD
The Inextricable Bond: Central Appalachia’s Relationship to Land and Energy in the 21st Century
By Nathan Hall
Creating Green Jobs and Economic Diversification in Central Appalachia by Reclaiming Polluting Coal Mines
By Evan Hansen and Anne Hereford
Education and Jobs, Jobs and Education: A Proposal for Funding Economic Redevelopment in Central Appalachia
By Michael Hendryx, PhD
Building Community Capacity
By Peter Hille
Survival Entrepreneurship as a Launching Pad for a More Vibrant Central Appalachia
By Ronald J. Hustedde, Ph.D.
A Declaration of Human Rights for the People of Appalachia: Reframing the Debate about the Region’s Future
By Judi Jennings
Building with Hope in Appalachia
By Jim King
Appalachian Transition Initiative/Appalachian Prosperity Project: A Clean Glass of Water For Every Appalachian Child
By Helen Matthews Lewis
Building a More Diverse, Sustainable, and Robust Central Appalachian Region through Entrepreneurship Development
By Deborah Markley
In Search of Spark Plugs
By Thomas F. Miller
Investing in the Potential of Children
By Renate Pore
Using the Human Capital We Have to Create the Social Capital We Don’t – Local Philanthropy and Early Childhood
By Gerry F. Roll
A Step Toward Fixing a County’s Economy
By Herb E. Smith
People of Color in the Green Future of Central Appalachia
By William H. Turner
Suffering Into Truth: Aeschylus in Appalachia
By Rick Wilson
The JOBS Project 2010 Strategy Report