Thinking Past the Moment
The Sierra Club's Carl Zichella discusses the balancing act involved in finding the best -- and least environmentally sensitive -- places to put big renewable energy projects
View ArticleThe other Trail of Tears
British author Brian Schofield pulls no punches in his account of a tragic episode in American history, Selling Your Father’s Bones: America’s 140-year War Against the Nez Perce Tribe.
View ArticleNorthward
The unexpected loveliness of the song of the varied thrush reminds the author that the birds are on the move, driven by climate change.
View ArticleAnd you think times are tough
The articles in old American Heritage magazines remind us that life in the West used to be a whole lot harder than it is.
View ArticleSee you in July
High Country News skips an issue; visitors; Ray Ring wins prize; correction.
View ArticleThe Renewable Energy Landscape
Maps, charts and text locate the nation's major renewable energy resources and some big projects on Western public land.
View ArticleRenewables: The Final Frontier
Vaclav Smil is a historian who exemplifies Vulcan-style logic and skepticism when it comes to easy solutions to energy problems.
View ArticleGrowing Away from Big Coal
In Colorado and New Mexico, some rural electric cooperatives are quietly fighting to get more of their power from local and renewable sources.
View ArticleModern-day La Mancha
Are wind-turbine-fighting environmentalists re-enacting Don Quixote's crusade against windmills -- while ignoring the real monster of climate change?
View ArticleCatching the sun
Is it possible to help resolve a huge problem like climate change by cobbling together small, locally generated solutions?
View ArticleLet's Get Small
Can 'hamster power' -- distributed generation and small-scale renewable energy projects -- save the West, and the world?
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