Julia Has Style

Congratulations to Coal River Mountain Watch's Julia Bonds who was featured in the Nov. 2004 issue of Organic Style as number 20 in the "50 heroes are making our planet a better place. "No matter where they fall on the list, all 50 crusaders are dynamos. Their stories prove that one person really can make a difference-all it takes is that first step," the magazine's editors wrote.

"20. Julia Bonds, West Virginia coal miner's daughter and Community Outreach Coordinator for Coal River Mountain Watch, is working to ban an ecologically destructive mining process called mountaintop removal, which uses blasting to find coal and then dumps the debris into nearby rivers."

Julia was joined by fellow West Virginian, "24. Morgan Spurlock, Director and Star of Super Size Me, enlightened-and horrified-moviegoers by eating only McDonald's food for 30 days and recording the disastrous results to his physical and mental health in the film."

Also on the list, "6. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Chief Prosecutor for Hudson Riverkeeper and President of Waterkeeper Alliance, Senior Attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, is a prominent environmental lawyer and author of Crimes Against Nature-How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy."