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Energy waste as seen by the International Space Station
By Chris Clarke on 2011 11 22 at 3:28:04 pm | 10 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x7OeIf you haven’t seen the amazing time-lapse video generated from footage shot by residents of the International Space Station, you should do so now. I’ve embedded it here. It’s undeniably beautiful. But there’s something about it that’s incredibly
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Solar For The 99 Percent
By Chris Clarke on 2011 10 30 at 7:26:07 pm | 4 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x2He
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Ground-truthing The Wilderness Society
By Chris Clarke on 2011 09 17 at 10:46:30 am | 0 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x2oeAs background, here’s a longish quote from the Facebook page of our friends at Basin and Range Watch:
… (continues)Not long ago, joining an environmental organization seemed like a rational thing to do if you had a busy schedule and didn’t have the time to be
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Chuckwalla Valley
By Chris Clarke on 2011 09 11 at 11:31:28 pm | 9 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x3le
I went out today to see a landscape before it’s completely altered. My camera is on its last legs after only 6 years, but I squeezed a few more washed-out shots from its unwilling frame.
It was in the Chuckwalla Valley, site of the Desert
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Ivanpah Photos: Before and After
By Chris Clarke on 2011 09 08 at 9:07:27 pm | 3 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x6ieHere are two photos taken by Kevin Emmerich of Basin and Range Watch.
The first, taken around the time of Camp Ivanpah, just a few days shy of a year ago, shows a nice little spot in the creosote a few feet from where we all camped. It’s perhaps
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Why I’m not voting for Obama in 2012
By Chris Clarke on 2011 08 15 at 5:18:14 pm | 65 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x9beOr at least not unless he changes from who he is today.
The first time I voted in a Presidential election was in 1980. I wasn’t going to. Carter had disappointed me, responding to criticism that he wasn’t warlike enough by ramping up the
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Dave Foreman on Desert Solar
By Chris Clarke on 2011 04 06 at 8:10:56 pm | 1 comment | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x3ndThis is the most recent “Around The Campfire” missive from the estimable Dave Foreman, who these days is working with the Rewilding Institute.
I received this and immediately sent off a request to reprint it, and then an hour later re-reading it I
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Environmentalism without the environment: Madrigal in The Atlantic
By Chris Clarke on 2011 03 30 at 12:31:15 am | 5 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x7edIf you know anything about the desert at all, you won’t get very far into Alexis Madrigal’s recent Atlantic Monthly piece on solar in the Mojave before things start to feel not quite right.
It took me one sentence.
The first one.
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Western Watersheds sues to stop Ivanpah SEGS
By Chris Clarke on 2011 01 17 at 10:53:14 am | 1 comment | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x0pc[Some good news for your MLK Day.]
WWP Sues to Stop Fast Tracked Power Plant in CA
For immediate release - January 17, 2011
LOS ANGELES — On Friday January 14, 2011 Western Watersheds Project filed suit in federal court to halt construction of
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My Ivanpah story in the Desert Report
By Chris Clarke on 2010 12 22 at 7:12:10 pm | 1 commentNow that the most recent issue of the Desert Report has been out for a couple of weeks, I think it’s fair for me to repost here the article I have in said issue. There’s plenty more articles where this one came from — by other, more expert and
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I’m still figuring out how I can have a video on Public Radio
By Chris Clarke on 2010 12 21 at 1:05:50 am | 1 comment | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x17bBut here it is.
Between you and me, this is what I look like when I’ve been at a full day of meetings after getting three hours of sleep and driving for three hours.
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Calico Poster
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BrightSource, Center for Biological Diversity make pact
By Chris Clarke on 2010 10 27 at 3:48:00 pm | 19 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x1XbAs the bulldozers roll, energy developer BrightSource and the Center for Biological Diversity announce they have reached an agreement.
… (continues)For Immediate Release, October 22, 2010
Contact:
Kierán Suckling, Center for Biological Diversity, (520)
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Right now at Ivanpah
By Chris Clarke on 2010 10 27 at 1:31:34 pm | 1 comment | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x2Wb
Just now at Ivanpah. Protesters from Desert Survivors bear witness as the ecocidal machinery heads for the Ivanpah SEGS site. Laura Cunningham … (continues)
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Petition to Save The Desert Tortoise from Big Energy
By Chris Clarke on 2010 10 21 at 6:46:51 pm | 4 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x7VbThe petition is here. Go sign it, then tell your friends to do the same. Post it on your blog, mention it in appropriate blog comment threads, facebook and twitter it to hell and back.
They’re finding a lot more tortoises than they expected at
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“Get some perspective on climate change!”
By Chris Clarke on 2010 10 11 at 10:03:54 am | 14 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x1FdI subscribe to an email list operated by the Sierra Club and devoted to the topic of desert conservation. The majority of the active participants on the list are horrified by the Club’s support of desert public lands energy development, but every
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RELEASE: Destructive Ivanpah Solar Project approved in Mojave Desert Core Habitat
By Chris Clarke on 2010 10 07 at 12:46:59 pm | 0 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x6PbFor Immediate Release
Destructive Ivanpah Solar Project approved in Mojave Desert Core Habitat
Renewable energy coalition calls for halt to misguided industrial development on fragile wildlandsOctober 7, 2010: Solar Done Right (SDR), an
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Desert Tortoise Relocation is Desert Tortoise Eradication
By Chris Clarke on 2010 10 03 at 5:38:21 pm | 9 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x3Kb
A tortoise in Central Nevada. 2005. CC Photo.
During the Evidentiary Hearing on September 20 in which the California Energy Commission sought final comment on their plan to approve the gigantic solar sprawl at Calico, the following exchange took
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Wearing your convictions on your sleeve
By Chris Clarke on 2010 10 01 at 1:16:15 pm | 0 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x7Ib
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A Native response to solar sprawl
By Chris Clarke on 2010 09 30 at 8:00:02 am | 0 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x1Gb
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