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New Sustainability Goals At WVU And A Plant-Based Appalachian Table, This West Virginia Morning

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On this West Virginia Morning, today is Earth Day, and people all over the world are taking time to focus on the environment and our effect on the natural world.

To mark the day, West Virginia University has announced a comprehensive set of more than 20 sustainability goals, to attain significant environmental improvements across the university’s campus by 2035. Traci Knabenshue, director of sustainability at WVU, spoke with reporter Chris Schulz about the need to focus and act on sustainability now.

And from Inside Appalachia, Jan Brandenburg is a pharmacist, writer and vegan in Eastern Kentucky. Over the last 30 years, she’s collected and perfected recipes that take a plant-based approach to the Appalachian table. She spoke with Bill Lynch about her new book The Modern Mountain Cookbook.

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Eric Douglas produced this episode.

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