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After two years of collaborative research, storysharing, metaphor crafting, and meticulous illustrating, the bees have completed an epic illustration about mountaintop removal coal mining!
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click here to order the coal poster in our webstore! |
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click here to bring the bees to your school or town! |
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click on thumbnails above to see full-resolution crops of the poster |
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Our Process
To see in-progress photos and the process of illustration and research leading up to the completion of "The True Cost of Coal", please check out the coal project blog...
http://beehivecollective.blogspot.com/ |
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Narrative Book
We have not only finished the poster, but we've created a narrative booklet that describes in detail the meanings behind all of the images!
To Download a version of the booklet for online view:
ENGLISH - -SPANISH
To download a verson of the booklet for printing:
ENGLISH - - SPANISH
(the pages in this version are out of order for reading, but are formatted for printng and folding... like a real book!) |
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This graphic is a FOLDING POSTER inspired by the back cover of Mad Magazing (yes, really!). Check
it out- on the right, a closed poster depicts an intact
mountain landscape, bursting with biodiversity, fresh
water, and interconnectedness. We see the Appalachian
Mountains from the ground up- an ant’s view. |
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Teeming with bioregionally appropriate plant and
animal species from the most biodiverse temperate
forests in the world, the critters that appear in this image
are significant to the Appalachian mountains both
ecologically AND culturally. A full cast of characters
by their common names is available in the narrative. |
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When we pull the poster apart (as seen below), we encounter
a very different landscape- one of power and
extraction, of toxic contamination and privitization,
all seen from the vantage point of the colonizer, the
God’s eye view. This story unfolds chronologically
left to right, tracing the epic history of COAL. |
So... who made this? Many, many hands! From
researchers to illustrators to educators, we’ve logged
thousands of collaborative hours in front of the page.
We’ve just printed thousands of paper copies of this
poster for use as teaching tools, and we’d love for
you to have one in your home, office, or classroom! |
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In 2008, the Beehive Design Collective allied
with Appalachian grassroots organizers fighting
Mountain Top Removal Coal Mining, a highly
destructive practice that blasts ancient mountains
into toxic moonscapes to fuel the ever-growing
global demand for electricity. This graphic
reflects the complexity of the struggles for land,
livelihood, and self-determination playing out in
Appalachia, while honoring the tremdendous history
of organized resistance and the courage of
communities living in the shadow of Big Coal
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CROSS-POLLINATION PROCESS
Our team of volunteer illustrators and educators
have collaborated with hundreds of grassroots
groups and folks from around the world to create
this visually stunning graphic multi-tool for activists
and ordinary people seeking real solutions
to energy extraction and climate change!
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Anti-copyright/creative commons materials
(produced in English & soon in Spanish)! Paper
posters, large scale banners, narrative booklet,
clip art CD-ROM, free web downloads, traveling
workshops & picture-lecture presentations!
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Please share
your feedback!
This Graphics Campaign is
a work in progress. Your
comments and suggestions
will help strengthen our
education and
cross-pollination strategy!
thank you!
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| Acknowledgements |
We’re grateful for the collaboration and contribution of many organizations
who have strategized, shared, and supported this project: |
Alliance for Appalachia
Appalachian Community Fund
Appalachian Studies Assc.
App. Staple Foods Collaborative
Appalachian Voices
Appalachian Women’s Alliance
Appalshop & AMI
Artist Project Earth
Aurora L
ights
Berea College
Black Mesa Indigenous Solidarity
Black Mesa Water Coalition
Blue Ridge Earth First!
Christians for the Mountains
Clearfork Community
Institute |
Climate Ground Zero
Coal River Mountain Watch
Concerned Citizens of Giles
County
Counter Cartography Collective
Dave Cooper’s MTR Roadshow
Here’s To The Long Haul
Highlander Center
High Rocks Camp for Girls
Indigenous Environmental
Network
Keepers of the Mountains
Kentuckians for
the Commonwealth |
Mountain Justice
N. Plains Resource Council
Ohio Valley Environmental
Coalition
Outta Your Backpack Media
Pine Mountain Settlement
School
Provisions L
earning Project
Real Cost of Prisons Project
Rising Tide North America
Rrenew Collective
Statewide Organizing for
Community Empowerment
SEAC |
Sludge Safety Project
SouthEastern Community
College
Southern Appalachian
Mountain Stewards
Southerners On New Ground
Thousand Kites Project
United Mountain Defense
Wisdom Keepers
Woodland Community Land
Trust
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and many many individuals,
friends, family, high schools,
and colleges who gave advice &
hosted us on Tour! THANK YOU! |
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