http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 15. http://www.hcn.org/issues/45.4/climate-change-turns-an-already-troubled-ski-industry-on-its-head California's Mammoth Mountain provides a case study on the uncertainty of the ski business, and how global warming threatens to make it even more unpredictable. No publisher Greg Hanscom Sierra Nevada ski business climate change Hot Times Mammoth Mountain resort town global warming recession housing bust Skiing mountain town economics drought 2013-03-11T15:12:44Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/our-survival-depends-on-fighting-climate-change Stopping global climate change requires an effort that’s the moral equivalent of war. No publisher Tom Bell climate change Hot Times global warming Wyoming energy Tom Bell 2012-11-02T22:39:01Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.12/will-utahs-tar-sands-make-it-the-alberta-of-the-high-desert Calgary-based U.S. Oil Sands says it's ready to take its exploratory effort in eastern Utah’s Tavaputs Plateau commercial. No publisher Jeremy Miller Tavaputs Plateau Groundwater pollution Wildlife habitat Bitumen Hot Times PR Spring Oil and gas industry global warming Uintah Basin Tar sands d-Limonene John Weisheit Utah wildlife habitat Fossil fuels Utah Gov. Gary Herbert 2012-08-01T15:06:10Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.9/the-fading-arizona-town-of-gila-bend-bets-big-on-solar At last -- a place to put utility scale plants that won't ruin the desert. But will politics and the economy get in the way? No publisher Judith Lewis Mernit renewable energy Amargosa Farm Road project desert tortoises Frederick Buss industrial solar Debbie Lesko environmental movement insolation Abengoa Gila Bend, Arizona Solana California electricity supply Sonoran Desert housing crisis endangered species economic recovery Solar Millennium real estate bust irrigation, Solar Field BrightSource Energy endangered desert plants Eric Fitzer utility-scale solar projects water supply global warming photovoltaic panels Jan Brewer BLM lad energy transmission lines solar energy Arizona politics Big Solar Overlay Zone Arizona Public Service agricultural lan Mojave Desert Arizona Legislature Sempra Energy climate change Gila Bend, Arizona, 2012-06-04T15:10:14Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/what-should-we-do-with-our-blink-of-time Natural history teaches us how rapidly and irrevocably the world can change -- a fact we should bear in mind as we enter the new, human-dominated era some scientists call the Anthropocene. No publisher Stephen Trimble mass extinctions evolution death Anthropocene Mesozoic climate change Pleistocene industrial revolution global warming species extinction pollution geology, paleontology, biodiversity loss, drought, natural resources scientists Natural history Natural History Museum of Utah tectonic cycles Eocene Holocene 2012-05-31T15:19:09Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.9/whats-the-best-place-for-big-solar Environmentalists have been too busy squabbling over proposed solar plants to pay much attention to one of the most promising sites: Gila Bend, Ariz. No publisher Sarah Gilman energy transmission lines Solar energy geothermal power Ivanpah Solar renewable energy Big Solar climate change Arizona desert tortoises endangered desert plants industrial solar Judith Lewis Mernit Mojave Desert Gila Bend utility-scale solar projects global warming endangered species coal power Green Path North environmental movement 2012-05-25T01:39:48Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/a-future-of-big-fires-and-tiny-bugs A second-generation forest ranger considers how fire prevention and climate change are affecting the forests he once roamed with his father. No publisher Frank Carroll grazing reform bark beetles climate change forest rangers overgrown forests global warming fire prevention New Mexico Blue River country forest management Frank Carroll Forest Service childhoods National Forest Service forest fires Western landscape drought rural Western life 2012-04-17T18:47:52Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/how-to-heat-proof-your-garden In a spring so hot and dry that it’s breaking records, backyard gardeners might considering using edible living mulch to protect the soil. No publisher Ari LeVaux record-breaking temperatures vegetable gardening Gardening climate change carrots small farmers global warming garlic farming green mulch compost organic farming edible living mulch drought 2012-03-28T13:08:41Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.4/two-degrees-warmer-and-rising-a-review-of-a-great-aridness Books about climate change tend to be grim reading, but William deBuys' love for the American Southwest makes his new nonfiction book A Great Aridness beautiful as well as disturbing. No publisher Laura Paskus A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest Hot Times global warming William deBuys drought Southwestern history 2012-07-16T17:54:09Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.1/residents-of-montanas-high-plains-are-angry-but-not-at-the-real-threats Though climate change and the economy are the issues threatening their livelihoods, many of the High Plains people are angry at almost everything else. No publisher Joe Wilkins Tea Party farmers High Plains climate change 1980s farm crisis right wing politics global warming rural life Joe Wilkins water supply political anger drought eastern Montana agriculture invasive plants Republicans 2012-02-03T14:16:35Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/resolutions-for-living-smarter-in-2012 We could all live healthier, more fulfilling and sustainable lives if we would try to do more with less. No publisher Linda Hasselstrom frugality car maintenance thrift stores barter system ranchers farmers organic produce climate change recycling doing without local foods New Year’s resolutions grass-fed meat environmental awareness global warming healthy eating sustainable living secondhand clothing lifestyle changes 2012-01-11T15:15:48Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.22/boulder-colo-votes-for-energy-independence-from-its-corporate-utility After a hard-fought political campaign the town of Boulder passed a ballot initiative allowing it to create its own municipal utility in order to help reach its ambitious environmental goals. No publisher Nathan Rice Xcel Energy 2011 election climate change political campaigns community choice aggregation electrical rates corporate utilities urban sustainability electricity power lines natural gas Colorado ballot initiatives Kyoto Protocol renewable energy public utilities power plants coal power Boulder politics municipal utilities global warming power transmission solar power power municipalization wind power Boulder Measure 2C 2012-08-14T16:05:30Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/greens-need-to-occupy-the-occupy-movement Today's activists need to get more involved in protesting the environmental profiteering that is destroying our planet. No publisher Tim Lydon Powder River Basin environmental activists protest movements corporate power air pollution climate change Bristol Bay salmon Exxon Valdez clear-cuts global warming timber companies Arch Coal Pebble Mine Alaska fisheries water pollution Peabody Coal Company Occupy Wall Street coal power plants oil spills 2011-12-20T18:26:22Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.18/utahs-ancient-lake-bonneville-holds-clues-to-the-wests-changing-climate In Utah, scientists are exploring the site of a long-vanished inland sea called Lake Bonneville to understand the West's past - and future - climate. No publisher Douglas Fox Great Salt Lake climate science Hot Times geologists Donner Party weather Jack Oviatt Heinrich Events tufa ice age Western weather Lake Bonneville climate predictions greenhouse gases Great Basin mineral bathtub rings Cathedral Cave Hadley cell global warming David McGee Jay Quade Guleed Ali Silver Island Range paleogeology climate historians 2011-11-07T15:28:17Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.18/western-scientists-study-the-past-to-predict-the-future Scientists are digging into the past of the West to try to understand what the future may bring. No publisher Michelle Nijhuis George Savile tree-ring science Lake Bonneville climate science greenhouse gases Methuselah Grove climate predictions Douglas Fox global warming paleogeology weather geologists bristlecone pines Western weather climate historians 2011-10-26T22:06:11Z News Article