John Quarles Jr. of the Environmental Protection Agency shocked his audience when he said: “The simple truth is that we are running out. Running out of pure air. Out of pure water. Out of virgin timber … But most of all, we are running out of time.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/6.2/download-entire-issue
EPA man says U.S. caught in wrenching change
Posted inJanuary 4, 1974: Not so exotic: Solar power for the Seventies
Not so exotic: Solar power for the Seventies
Even though President Richard Nixon didn’t mention solar energy once in his outline of “Project Independence,” there’s a lot of solar energy around, and working solar equipment exists today. If the U.S. were really determined to introduce solar energy in the 1970s, it could be done. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/6.1/download-entire-issue
Posted inJanuary 4, 1974: Not so exotic: Solar power for the Seventies
Farmers question stripping
The national president of the Farmers Union says the problems being created by the western push of the giant coal companies must be met head-on. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/6.1/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 21, 1973: Hooked on energy
Hooked on energy
We have been enjoying an energy “high” for as long as most Americans can remember. And the most remarkable thing about the energy crisis is not that it came so fast or that is may have been contrived, but that we lack specific information about the energy we depend on. Download entire issue to view […]
Posted inDecember 21, 1973: Hooked on energy
Colorado fights to control blasts
CER Geonuclear Corp., whose Project Rio Blanco used three underground nuclear explosions to try and stimulate oil-shale production, is working to clear the way for more nuclear blasts in Colorado. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.25/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 21, 1973: Hooked on energy
Attacking trash at the source
We talk about the growing problem of solid waste disposal, about the wonders of landfills-turned-parks, and about the ways we could reuse our solid waste at home, but we haven’t quite made the point that we as individuals must attack the source of the solid waste problem. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.25/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 7, 1973: Reusing and recycling wastes: Kicking the garbage habit
Vim Wright, COSC president
Colorado Open Space Council president Vim Wright was moved to enter the environmental movement by a fascination and appreciation for nature. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 7, 1973: Reusing and recycling wastes: Kicking the garbage habit
Trouble besets Leopold Wilderness
The wilderness review process for New Mexico’s Aldo Leopold Wilderness was moving along slowly and smoothly until copper mining interests jammed the proposal in the U.S. House. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inDecember 7, 1973: Reusing and recycling wastes: Kicking the garbage habit
Reusing and recycling wastes: Kicking the garbage habit
Faced with growing volumes of trash, states like Connecticut and Oregon are leading the way with programs to reuse and recycle solid waste. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.24/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 23, 1973: The crisis in energy: Water comes up short
Water … key to energy development
A map of the waterways surrounding the Powder River Basin, with potential reservoirs that may be developed to support coal-fired power plants. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.23/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 23, 1973: The crisis in energy: Water comes up short
The crisis in energy: Water comes up short
In Wyoming and eastern Montana, plans for harnessing the Powder River Basin’s coal to ease the energy crisis are running into the realities of limited water supply. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.23/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 23, 1973: The crisis in energy: Water comes up short
Dredging up an old wolf
Congressional hearings are expected to be completed before the end of the session on administration bills to create a Department of Energy and Natural Resources and transfer functions of several agencies now outside the Interior to that department. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.23/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 9, 1973: The making of an energy skinflint
Trimming the fat: Conservation of energy takes center stage
Today, almost everyone in authority seems to be telling us that that energy honeymoon is over, and that energy conservation is here to stay. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.22/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 9, 1973: The making of an energy skinflint
The oil shale kingdom
The author recalls a day spent amid the clean air, silence, and wildlife of Colorado’s Piceance Basin — an area slated for oil shale development. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.22/download-entire-issue
Posted inNovember 9, 1973: The making of an energy skinflint
The making of an energy skinflint
Can citizens reduce demand by managing their energy more wisely? Experts believe they can, without greatly changing their lifestyles, if they wish. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.22/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 26, 1973: Black clouds gather
Orrin Bonney, mountaineer
Orrin H. Bonney is one of Wyoming’s twentieth century mountain men. His love of Wyoming’s high country has led to an intimate knowledge of the mountains few modern men can match. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.21/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 26, 1973: Black clouds gather
Black clouds gather
As the energy crisis deepens, the clear skies of Wyoming’s Bighorn Mountains are threatened by the extraction of vast deposits of coal. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.21/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 12, 1973: Oil shale cost immense
Whither the train: Reclamation for rusty rails
In part two in a series about the fate of passenger rail, Lander, Wyo., which saw its last passenger train over 25 years ago, may foreclose on a potential railroad revival if it allows the branch rail-line that serves the town to be abandoned. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.20/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 12, 1973: Oil shale cost immense
Oil shale cost immense
The Department of Interior is on the eve of releasing the shackles on oil shale development in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming — but conservation organizations are worried that the cost to the environment will be too high. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.20/download-entire-issue
Posted inOctober 12, 1973: Oil shale cost immense
Michael McCloskey, Sierra Club leader
An HCN interview with Michael McCloskey, who succeeded David Brower as executive director of the Sierra Club. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/5.20/download-entire-issue