High Country News

Tackling Utah’s trash

Issa Hamud, an engineer who was born in Somalia, helped Logan, Utah, create a successful recycling program.

by Mary Jackson-Smith, Jan 21, 2008
Deciphering humanity's hardware

Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape by Brian Hayes is a wonderfully conversational explanation of everything one sees along the highway that isn’t natural

by Michelle Nijhuis, Jan 23, 2006
Facts about greenhouse gas emissions

Sprinkled throughout the lead story are "fun facts" about what causes greenhouse gas emissions and what people can do to reduce them

by Michelle Nijhuis, Mar 06, 2006
The Universe on Blacktop

A Colorado family finds satisfaction -- and cash -- in scavenging metal for recycling.

by Laura Pritchett , Mar 17, 2009
Did the Park Service bow to pressure from Coca Cola on its bottle ban?

A former Grand Canyon National Park superintendent believes that corporate pressure may have undermined a proposed ban on disposable water bottles in the park.

by Nathan Rice, Dec 11, 2011
Your trash is my treasure

If you want to find an inexpensive, entertaining way to furnish your house, try raiding the garbage in a resort town like Crested Butte, Colo.

by Dawne Belloise, Feb 02, 2012
INNOVATE, Part II

Westerners have a knack for new and innovative thinking: Green detective, Healthcare for the hard up, Developing to stop development, Low carbon brews and more.

by Jodi Peterson, Ray Ring, Terray Sylvester, Jonathan Thompson, , Mar 10, 2009
Heard Around the West

BlueRibbon Coalition director in trouble; recycling etiquette; Most Livable Communities don’t come cheap; Bed and Breakfast Beagle in Idaho; UFO Watchtower; Bruce Willis fined by EPA

by Betsy Marston, Sep 27, 2004
Resolutions for living smarter in 2012

We could all live healthier, more fulfilling and sustainable lives if we would try to do more with less.

by Linda Hasselstrom, Jan 09, 2012
Heard around the West

Worms at work; stupid hunter tricks; fighting starlings with falcons; cemetery soccer; Schweitzer’s dang-tootin’; Mount Rushmoo

by Betsy Marston, Nov 13, 2006