Conference
Appalachian Community Economics Conference
September 19 – 21, 2008
Appalachian Community Economics (ACE) thanks all those who participated in this community process from the center of our collective heart for contributing your time and effort to our conference at the 4H Education Center in Abingdon, VA in September of 2008. Clearly, we have the ability, through grassroots efforts, to work with one another for an Appalachia where human, material, and natural resources stay within the region, for the region.
In one short weekend together, we shared our vision of an Appalachia characterized by sound community and sustainable economics.
Appalachia as a region reflects the strength, vigor, and spirit of its people and mountains. ACE is uniting people of all ages and from diverse communities to continue to work together for a sustainable and just world for us all to witness in our lifetime.
Our hopes are to reach out to other Appalachian communities who are increasingly at risk due to corporate-sponsored unsustainable practices in the region to create a community-based economy that can sustain our earth and one another.
If your project or community would like to contribute to ACE’s continuing efforts to support one another with love, kindness, and hard work to realize this dream of a sustainable Appalachia, please do the following three things during the next week:please e-mail, mdmockbee@gmail.com.
Our conference has shown sustainable initiatives and economies that are all over our mountains. Please feel free to peruse our featured workshops, presenter bios, as well as the mini breakout sessions we had during meal time.
We humans have such a short perspective of time as compared to the memory that must
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