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Feature
Maps, charts and text locate the nation's major renewable energy resources and some big projects on Western public land.
by Terray Sylvester,
Jun 29, 2009
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Feature
Vaclav Smil is a historian who exemplifies Vulcan-style logic and skepticism when it comes to easy solutions to energy problems.
by Randy Udall,
Jun 26, 2009
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Multimedia
Fred Logg's small solar system powers some lights, his laptop and a small refrigerator -- but the energy source has its limitations.
by Daniel Kraker,
Jun 25, 2009
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Feature
Utility brings solar power to far-flung Navajos
by Daniel Kraker,
Jun 24, 2009
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Feature
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
by Sarah Gilman,
Jun 22, 2009
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Feature
In Colorado and New Mexico, some rural electric cooperatives are quietly fighting to get more of their power from local and renewable sources.
by Susan Moran ,
Jun 19, 2009
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Two Weeks in the West
Are wind-turbine-fighting environmentalists re-enacting Don Quixote's crusade against windmills -- while ignoring the real monster of climate change?
by Jonathan Thompson ,
Jun 17, 2009
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Multimedia
HIgh Country News road trip goes through energy country, from the coal mines near Paonia, to the flaring gas rigs of Wyoming.
by Jeff Chen,
Jun 15, 2009
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Feature
Can 'hamster power' -- distributed generation and small-scale renewable energy projects -- save the West, and the world?
by Judith Lewis,
Jun 15, 2009
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Writers on the Range
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.
by George Sibley,
May 22, 2009
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Multimedia
A Harley-riding desert activist talks about saving the Mojave ecosystem
by Marty Durlin,
May 11, 2009
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Feature
Environmentalists are arguing passionately over large-scale solar development on California's Mojave Desert.
by Judith Lewis ,
May 11, 2009
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Current
Rio Blanco County, Colo., which was just recently buzzing with oil and gas development, now faces an unexpected slowdown as the national economy tanks.
by Rebecca Clarren,
May 06, 2009
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Writers on the Range
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.
by Randy Udall,
May 01, 2009
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How it Works
Tribal infighting is delaying a wind farm planned for Gray Mountain on the Navajo Reservation.
by Gail Binkly,
Apr 22, 2009
