Green is still fashionable

 John Seelmeyer, 12/29/2008 , John Seelmeyer is the editor of the Northern Nevada Business Weekly     Sustainable development, all the rage less than a year ago, has survived the economic downturn. There just isn’t much in the way of development or construction — sustainable or otherwise read more

Oil lays waste to the West

The greed, speed and scale of development in wild lands is an open wound on America. By Terry Tempest Williams Reprint from the Los Angeles Times December 7, 2008 On election day, the Bureau of Land Management in Utah quietly announced its last round of oil and gas lease sales for the year. On read more

Will solar power ever be as cheap as coal?

    Wafer handlers: Senior photovoltaic engineer Adam Lorenz works on some solar wafers. The company he works for, 1366 Technologies, aims to convert sunshine into power as cheaply as coal-burning power plants do. (Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff)     Will solar power ever be as cheap as read more

A Design for Cheaper Wind Power

A new design that draws on technology developed for jet engines could halve the cost of generating electricity from wind. FloDesign Wind Turbine, a spin-off from the aerospace company FloDesign based in Wilbraham, MA, has developed a wind turbine that could generate electricity at half the cost read more

EPA Coal Decision Levels Playing Field for Wind, Solar

By Alexis Madrigal Building an alt-energy power plant is risky and expensive, but thanks to a new ruling by an Environmental Protection Agency panel, building a coal plant may become riskier and more expensive. The Environmental Appeals Board blocked the EPA from issuing a permit to a proposed read more

BLM to study wind farm proposal near Virginia City

Federal land managers said Monday they will gather public comment and assess the potential environmental impacts of a proposal to build dozens of wind-power turbines on the mountains north of Carson City and west of Virginia City. Great Basin Wind LLC has submitted an application to the U.S. read more

DOE Report Says More Wind Than Coal Planned for US Grid

  In light of the president-elects 60 minute statement just the other night we can assume that there will be more and more projects concerning alternative and environmentally friendly energy projects on the horizon. This is just a few of the references that were already in the papers not long read more

Easier to get Green Energy

 Pick up a newspaper, turn on a television set and flip to just about any news station and you hear a broadcast about something green. It’s not just a catch phrase but a steady reality that living green is becoming economically feasible. More than half of all electricity consumers in the read more

More Nevadans Apply For Renewable Energy Rebates

  More Nevadans Apply For Renewable Energy Rebates   In difficult economic times people look at ways to save money and one of the ways and not always so obvious, is to look at going green. This ends up being both good for you and for the environment. It seems that Northern Nevadans grasp this read more

The Business of Being Green

 Over the years the patina of the environmental movement has both shone brightly and been tarnished. Often the reality of what is claimed by corporate citizenry doesn’t meet with public perception. How corporations are perceived has long been a thorn in the side of many activists. The read more

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