Results for keyword: climate change
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"To feel at home, stay at home."
This essays and book reviews in this special issue of High Country News revolve around the question: What does it mean to be at home in the West?
by Jodi Peterson, Sep 13, 2009 -
My home on a glacier
The memory of two summers spent working as a dogsled guide on a glacier in Alaska will never melt away.
by Blair Braverman , Aug 27, 2009 -
Mission critical
With global warming threatening the planet, even environmentalists are looking more kindly at natural gas.
by Randy Udall, Aug 14, 2009 -
Birds can only fly so far
The birds in California’s Joshua Tree National Park will need human help to survive climate change.
by Seth Shteir , Jul 09, 2009 -
Northward
The unexpected loveliness of the song of the varied thrush reminds the author that the birds are on the move, driven by climate change.
by David Oates , Jul 07, 2009 -
The Renewable Energy Landscape
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 -
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.
by Randy Udall, Jun 26, 2009 -
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
by Sarah Gilman, Jun 22, 2009 -
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?
by Jonathan Thompson , Jun 17, 2009 -
Western water in the age of climate change
In Dead Pool: Lake Powell, Global Warming, and the Future of Water in the West, James Lawrence Powell examines the impact of climate change on the West’s future.
by Kyle Boelte, May 26, 2009






