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  • Primer 2: Energy

    The West's abundant resources below ground have supplied much of the power for the U.S. in the past; are renewables next?

    by Paul Larmer, Mar 16, 2008

  • Sans petrol

    Willits, Calif., is one of a growing number of communities trying to prepare for a post-oil world by becoming economically and agriculturally sustainable.

    by Tim Holt, Feb 19, 2007

  • Slipping into the holidays

    This issue’s cover essay on New Mexico’s gas fields – and our publisher’s adventures during a recent snowstorm in Paonia – reveal the complex links that bind Westerners together for better or worse

    by Paul Larmer, Dec 25, 2006

  • Environmental change

    Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., does an about-face and moves to protect New Mexico’s Valle Vidal from oil and gas drilling

    by April Reese, Dec 11, 2006

  • Destruction and discovery walk hand in hand

    A new plan to steer energy development away from cultural sites in New Mexico could streamline energy development, fund archaeological research and preserve ancient sites all at once

    by Laura Paskus, Nov 27, 2006

  • Spinning coal into gasoline

    Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer is eager to build a synfuels plant to turn coal into diesel, but it will neither easy nor cheap to make gas gasification a reality in the West

    by Samuel Western, Nov 13, 2006

  • Trees — A different shade of green

    Increasingly, Western cities are planting trees to save energy as well as provide beauty

    by Fletcher Jacobs, Nov 13, 2006

  • Biomass: What to do with all that wood

    Mark Sardella’s nonprofit group Local Energy is determined to heat local communities with biomass energy, created by burning logging slash and millwaste from New Mexican forests

    by Peter Friederici, Oct 30, 2006

  • Clinton-era roadless rule is back... for now

    A federal judge has reinstated President Clinton’s roadless rule protecting forests in the Lower 48 states, but the decision seems to have only confused the issue of forest management and is likely to end up back in court

    by Evan Tea, Oct 16, 2006

  • Keep power generation close to home

    by Tom Ribe, Sep 18, 2006
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