In relation to Tom Friedman's Hot, Flat, & Crowded, This seems like an interesting approach to his version of "Code Green":

Blasting off mountaintops to reach coal in Appalachia or churning out millions of tons of carbon dioxide to extract oil from sand in Alberta are among environmentalists’ biggest industrial irritants. But they are also legal and lucrative.

I believe that the alternate options that were presented, such as wind mill power, would be a more acceptable way of obtaining power instead of mountain top blowing. Not to mention that it would be the greener way of getting power.