News Center – 2021 Annual Report
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Laying the Groundwork for the Next 30 Years
Rural Action celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2021, an event that prompted several longtime staff and alumni to reflect on the impact the organization has ... Read More
Fighting Pollution with Innovation
Why is it taking so long?
That’s a question Michelle Shively MacIver fielded from a potential investor in True Pigments, a social enterprise of Rural Action ... Read More
Scope of Work Expanding with H2Ohio
Rural Action’s Watershed program spent 2021 preparing for a major expansion in its work with a project to restore wetlands in the Western Lake Erie ... Read More
Helping Forest Farmers Harvest Success
Is it really possible to quit your day job to become a full-time forest farmer?
Meet Rick Felumlee, who went from searching the internet for information ... Read More
Creating the Next Generation of Appalachian Leaders
“Wow! That’s a great idea.”
It’s a phrase Rural Action Environmental Education Director Joe Brehm utters often. In this instance, he was responding to a co-worker’s ... Read More
Creating Economic Opportunity on the Road to Zero Waste
It takes a village to be zero waste. Or in the case of Appalachian Ohio, it takes many villages working together.
That’s how Rural Action and ... Read More
In Memoriam: Jerry Hartley
Jerry Hartley, a remarkable human being and a true renaissance man, passed away on July 20, 2021. Not only was he a local historian, a ... Read More
Media Contact
For media inquiries please contact:
Alexandria Polanosky | Media and Communications Director | 740-677-4047 ext. 140 | alexandria@ruralaction.org
