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Tilting at Windmills… by Dean Wooten

TILTING AT WINDMILLS By Dean Wooten There they are. Dark harbingers of the future Spread across the ridge from horizon to horizon Slowly turning long arms, malevolent as giant spiders, Creeping toward...

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It’s the Aesthetics, Stupid (or is it?)…by Jim Stiles

“IT’S THE AESTHETICS, STUPID.” (Or is it?) By Jim Stiles   Many years ago, during one of my first trips to the canyon country, I made the dusty drive to Grandview Point on the Island in the Sky. The...

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On the Consistency of Bullshit: an Ever-Swirling Tale…by Scott Thompson

On the Consistency of Bullshit: an Ever-Swirling Tale   By Scott Thompson I think that at least 90% of what the public sees about climate change on television or reads in right-leaning books and...

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The Bulletin Board of Doom

  “Offshore wind is one of the very few things that makes nuclear power look cheap.” Professor Dieter Helm, an economist from the University of Oxford.    BBC News...

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The Bulletin Board of Doom!

  Overall, America’s insatiable desire to chomp on overseas food has been growing. About 16.8 percent of the food that we eat is imported from other countries, according to the U.S. Department of...

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An Interview with Terry Weiner, of the Desert Protective Council…by Jim Stiles

TERRY WEINER is the Conservation Coordinator of the Desert Protective Council. DPC is one of a relative handful of environmental groups that has openly expresed concerns and frustration with the...

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The Biggest Public Land Grab: The ‘Green Energy Boom’& Mainstream...

  ‘THE BIGGEST PUBLIC LAND GRAB’ The ‘Green Energy Boom’ & Mainstream Environmentalism Sometimes the endless open spaces of the West impress me most when I can’t see them at all. One night when I...

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Renewable Energy: Shredding the Magic of Nevada’s Great Basin…by Scott Thompson

Experiencing the Great Basin Desert in Nevada seems to involve an inner war of perceptions. Here’s how it went for me. Just after Gail and I turned our rental car due south on Alternate U.S. Highway...

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TWELVE PICTURES ARE WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS…by Jim Stiles

As work nears completion at the Latigo Wind Farm in Monticello, Utah, here are some of images, taken in December. One thing is certain, the 27 wind turbines have dramatically altered the landscape and...

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