 Adapted to local initiatives and history, the Ecopolis monologues had been performed at conferences, universities and theatre venues throughout America.In 2008, Biggers wrote a series of articles calling for a Green New Deal.As the grandson of a coal miner from southern Illinois, Jeff Biggers has been a vocal critic of mountaintop removal in Appalachia and strip mining across the nation, poorly enforced black lung and mining workplace safety laws, and the fallacy of "clean coal" slogans.