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  • Feature The Renewable Energy Landscape

    The Renewable Energy Landscape

    Maps, charts and text locate the nation's major renewable energy resources and some big projects on Western public land.

  • Feature Renewables: The Final Frontier

    Renewables: The Final Frontier

    Vaclav Smil is a historian who exemplifies Vulcan-style logic and skepticism when it comes to easy solutions to energy problems. Subscribers only

  • Multimedia

    Learning to live with fewer watts

    Fred Logg's small solar system powers some lights, his laptop and a small refrigerator -- but the energy source has its limitations.

  • Feature From Pickups to PV

    From Pickups to PV

    Utility brings solar power to far-flung Navajos

  • Feature Thinking Past the Moment

    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

  • Feature Growing Away from Big Coal

    Growing 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.

  • Two Weeks in the West Modern-day La Mancha

    Modern-day La Mancha

    Are wind-turbine-fighting environmentalists re-enacting Don Quixote's crusade against windmills -- while ignoring the real monster of climate change?

  • Multimedia HCN Road Trip

    HCN Road Trip

    HIgh Country News road trip goes through energy country, from the coal mines near Paonia, to the flaring gas rigs of Wyoming.

  • Feature Let's Get Small

    Let's Get Small

    Can 'hamster power' -- distributed generation and small-scale renewable energy projects -- save the West, and the world?

  • Writers on the Range Government capitalism can be a very good thing

    Government capitalism can be a very good thing

    The federal government should emulate FDR’s Rural Electrification Project: Put up the money to improve energy efficiency in the West, and let the locals do the work. Subscribers only

  • Multimedia

    Jim Harvey vs. Big Solar

    A Harley-riding desert activist talks about saving the Mojave ecosystem

  • Feature High Noon

    High Noon

    Environmentalists are arguing passionately over large-scale solar development on California's Mojave Desert. Subscribers only

  • Current Busted in Rio Blanco

    Busted in Rio Blanco

    Rio Blanco County, Colo., which was just recently buzzing with oil and gas development, now faces an unexpected slowdown as the national economy tanks.

  • Writers on the Range Chill, baby, chill

    Chill, baby, chill

    The largest drilling boom in Western history is ending as new technologies make it easier to get shale gas from other parts of the country. Subscribers only

  • How it Works Coming to blows

    Coming to blows

    Tribal infighting is delaying a wind farm planned for Gray Mountain on the Navajo Reservation. Subscribers only

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  1. The Hungry Intern: Breakfast | Jeff Chen takes you on a zany adventure as he trie...
  2. Let's Get Small | Can 'hamster power' -- distributed generation and ...
  3. Modern-day La Mancha | Are wind-turbine-fighting environmentalists re-ena...
  4. An end to the "Snow War"? | The Supreme Court chooses not to stop an Arizona s...
  5. HCN Road Trip | HIgh Country News road trip goes through energy co...
  1. Let's Get Small | Can 'hamster power' -- distributed generation and ...
  2. Rebooting Urban Watersheds | In California, grassroots activists work to restor...
  3. Natural comfort | It seems romantic to die alone in the wild, until ...
  4. California prepares for the next burn | Public officials – and even homeowners – are b...
  5. The Hungry Intern: Breakfast | Jeff Chen takes you on a zany adventure as he trie...

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