Desert Protective Council on the Radio
Thursday, June 12th, 2008 Posted in renewable energy | No Comments »"Desert warfare: Solar energy plants forge strange alliances" (KPCC radio, 6/9/08) "The fight for desert land - at least one million acres are being considered for energy use - has brought together a strange mix of allies in opposition to the ...
Sunrise Powerlink Coverage in High Country News
Friday, June 6th, 2008 Posted in Sunrise Powerlink | No Comments »My Google news alert for Sunrise Powerlink popped up today with a nice post by Judith Lewis on her Little Green Animals blog. She gives the behind-the-scenes dirt on her new article in High Country News covering transmission for "renewable energy" in ...
Off-Roading Ban in Sonoran Desert
Friday, May 23rd, 2008 Posted in Anza-Borrego, off-road vehicles | No Comments »The Arizona Republic reported on May 13 that the Bureau of Land Management will ban off-road vehicles on 55,000 acres of the Sonoran Desert National Monument for up to two years or more. Violators of the ban could face a ...
Sunrise Powerlink in the Blogosphere
Friday, May 16th, 2008 Posted in Sunrise Powerlink | No Comments »Photo by Diana Lindsay. The Sunrise Powerlink hearings last Monday were well covered by bloggers. In addition to DesertBlog's coverage, here are several other sites: Christmas Letter blog: An informative post from one of the most eloquent speakers I heard at the ...
Why Protect the Desert?
Monday, April 28th, 2008 Posted in Art & Nature, Sunrise Powerlink | 3 Comments »The Sunrise Powerlink would run at the base of the distant mountains in this photo, altering the experience of hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail in the San Felipe Hills. "The desert's a good place for the Sunrise Powerlink -- ...
May 12 Sunrise Powerlink Rendezvous in Borrego Springs
Thursday, April 24th, 2008 Posted in Sunrise Powerlink | No Comments »People came from all over to voice their opposition to the Sunrise Powerlink during the hearings in February. Now we have an even better chance to make our voices heard. (Photo by Diana Lindsay.) For the past couple weeks, DesertBlog has regularly ...
San Diego Earth Day Report
Monday, April 21st, 2008 Posted in Sunrise Powerlink | 2 Comments »Groups fighting the Sunrise Powerlink and promoting greener energy options were all over Sunday's Earth Day celebration in San Diego's Balboa Park. On my way to the Friends of Rose Canyon booth (where we spread the word about another "unnecessary infrastructure ...
Sunrise Powerlink Quick Hits
Friday, April 18th, 2008 Posted in Sunrise Powerlink | No Comments »Stirling Solar gets a boost: Several papers report today that Stirling Energy Systems has acquired funding from an Irish toll road company (a toll road company -- sort of makes you feel warm all over, doesn't it?). Oh, and they've ...
Bride of Sunrise Powerlink in the Offing?
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 Posted in Sunrise Powerlink | No Comments »Still from "Bride of Frankenstein." Even Dr. Frankenstein finished creating his first monster before going on to his next mad idea. Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, SDG&E has now raised the possibility that two massive transmission lines could ...
Sunrise Powerlink — So San Diego
Monday, April 14th, 2008 Posted in Sunrise Powerlink | 2 Comments »"That's so San Diego!" This was my wife's response to yesterday's excellent column by Dean Calbreath in the U-T, comparing the Sunrise Powerlink with locally generated solar power. In particular, she was responding to the article's conclusion that solar power ...
