Denying affordable energy

What environmental elites don’t want average Americans to have Written by Deneen Borelli Saturday, October 25, 2008 OP-ED: Failing schools, crime and single-parent households are just a few of the challenges facing urban communities. Now, thanks to “Club Green” — radical read more

Alternative ways to get where you need to go

Some of us don’t have much choice about how to get around and whether or not to keep buying high-priced gas. If you live several miles out and/or away from available public transportation, choices become limited; drive the car, pay the petroleum toll, or stay home. Most of us, though, can read more

Two gallons around Reno

Just because you can’t afford to buy much gas doesn’t mean you have to hunker down at home. If you are lucky enough to live around Reno or Sparks, there is plenty to do within a two gallon radius of the Truckee Meadows. Ok, there is a considerable difference between driving a Hummer read more

The State of Sustainability Communication

The rapid increase in the amount of communications focusing on sustainability topics, the growing controversy around “green” marketing, and the desire of various company stakeholders (such as customers) to uncover and dialogue about company practices all signal a larger shift occurring today: read more

BLM, Frozen Potential

While at the latest Geothermal Conference held in Reno I came across the BLM booth. It was a table covered with copies of lease agreements and general brochures. I recalled an article written by Kat Kerlin of the Reno News and Review, 07/10/08 which brought up the situation concerning the BLM read more

How the Bailout Might Benefit the Environment

It’s made the news everyday. Front page from Los Angeles, to Sacramento, Reno to Boise and New York. 700 billion from the tax payer to Wall Street and who knows how many pockets along the way. Luckily for us there were a few people on the hill that were thinking on behalf of the environment read more

Carbon traders or corporate raiders?

Environmentalists debate the merits of the state’s greenhouse-gas reduction proposal California’s environmentalists don’t always see eye to eye. That’s especially true when it comes to the best way to reduce the state’s carbon emissions, as required by the landmark Global Warming read more

Do we really care about energy concerns in this election?

You wonder whether the politicians and for that matter the general public really understand that we are inextricably tied to the land that surrounds us and the resources that are available and that abuse in any form will come back and bite us in the proverbial butt. To think that if we turn a read more

Grant will aid Carson biomass plant

A federal grant will allow the Nevada Division of Forestry to purchase biomass collection and removal equipment, a big step toward full operation of an alternative power plant at Northern Nevada Correctional Center. The $250,000 from the U.S. Forest Service will be used to purchase a truck, four read more

Northern Nevada, a can do Community?

I’ve met and spoken with a number of people over the past few months. Mentors and writers, Doctors and psychologists, people that understand the national and global picture far better than I do and some that still think as we thought 25 years ago. One of the elements in the conversation read more