Results for keyword: environmental movement
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A Hell of an Anniversary
High Country News' founder, Tom Bell, marks our 40th anniversary with a grim prediction: The West -- and the world -- are doomed.
by Ray Ring, Aug 30, 2010 -
Our founder, the man and the myth
Tom Bell still inspires a young Westerner.
by Paul Larmer, Aug 30, 2010 -
The oil spill's upshot
The tragic BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico could help the environmental movement, if greens act wisely.
by Ray Ring , Jun 18, 2010 -
The genesis of the West
Douglas Brinkley's magisterial The Wilderness Warrior describes how Teddy Roosevelt created the American West we love today.
by Ed Marston, Jan 14, 2010 -
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 -
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 -
Dreaming of a New Deal for nature
A review of Neil M. Maher's book, "Nature's New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Environmental Movement," which reminds us that to succeed, an environmental policy must reckon compromise.
by Jon Christensen , Jul 18, 2008 -
Unlikely alliance?
In most of the West’s complicated environmental problems, so-called “unlikely alliances” between greens and their opposite numbers are really not that unlikely after all.
by Jonathan Thompson, Jun 23, 2008 -
Green and mean
The Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund is building on the strategy it used to boot anti-environmental Republican Congressman Richard Pombo out of office in 2006.
by Marty Durlin, May 26, 2008 -
Climate Revolutionary
Law professor Mary C. Wood wants to use “atmospheric trust litigation” to tackle global warming in the courts.
by Carla A. Wise, May 12, 2008
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