Results for keyword: Global warming
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Pushed to the wall, we can power down
Tim Lydon tells how Juneau, Alaska, cut its energy consumption by over 40 percent when its electricity supply was interrupted by avalanches.
by Tim Lydon, Oct 28, 2008 -
Forget Wall Street, focus on the real issues
The urgency of the politicians' response to our economic troubles contrasts with the way we’re ignoring the greater crisis of climate change.
by Jonathan Thompson , Oct 13, 2008 -
On the ballot: "Clean" coal and moose stew
Political conventions obsess about “clean” coal and Sarah Palin, and sideline discussions of oil and gas impacts.
by Sarah Gilman, Sep 10, 2008 -
Fire, fire everywhere
Despite the growing threat of Western wildfire, most of us are still pretending it will go away if we just ignore it.
by Jonathan Thompson , Sep 02, 2008 -
Unnatural Preservation
Public-land managers in the era of global warming face uncomfortable choices: Do they intervene to protect dying plants and animals, or stand back and let this new version of “nature” take its course?
by M. Martin Smith and Fiona Gow, Feb 04, 2008 -
Planning for uncertainty
A Phoenix symposium on dealing with drought and global warming echoes the larger uncertainties facing public-land and national park managers throughout the West.
by Paul Larmer, Feb 04, 2008 -
Global climate change? Let’s go shopping
Jim Stiles scoffs at the notion of saving the planet by buying so-called “green” products.
by Jim Stiles, May 28, 2007 -
Market cooling
California and the West decide to tackle global warming through the market – by buying and selling carbon
by Oakley Brooks, Apr 30, 2007 -
Undoing the myth of Western exceptionalism
California’s decision to tackle global warming is a sign that the West is finally growing up enough to realize that it is not an "exceptional" place, entirely detached from the rest of the modern world.
by Matt Jenkins, Sep 18, 2006 -
Save Our Snow
Faced with rising temperatures and a passive federal government, Western towns such as Aspen, Colo., are beginning to work out a local approach to combating global warming
by Michelle Nijhuis, Mar 06, 2006
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