Courtesy of Planet Forward comes this video about how farming the wind has turned around Roscoe, Texas (and rural communities in many parts of the ‘wind belt’). Roping the wind in Texas from Powering a Nation on Vimeo. Farmer Cliff Etheredge provides his perspective on the community’s change with wind development. It’s a 180-degree attitude […]
“cause we’ve always cussed the wind …”
January 8th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Tags: Energy · green · renewable energy · wind power
Science blows the top off mountaintop removal mining
January 8th, 2010 · 4 Comments
This cross-post from DWG provides an excellent perspective on the heavily peer-reviewed study, just published in Science magazine, that provides strong material about the serious health (environmental and human) implications of Mountain Top Removal (MTR). For links to numerous other discussions, see here. The rapacious polluters in the coal industry are celebrating. The approval of […]
Tags: business practice · coal · Energy · environmental · government energy policy · pollution