Filmmaker Robert Lundahl joined us at the Ivanpah Spirit Run last weekend. This is the result. Edited among images and interviews with Spirit Run participants are snippets of a longer interview with Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center Director Jim Andre. You can see that unedited interview here.
Solar Gold: Ivanpah Spirit Run from Robert Lundahl on Vimeo.
More shortly on the Run, how I came to participate as a runner, and why I didn’t wear shoes to do so.
I can not wait to hear why you didn’t wear shoes in this run. Was any portion of it cross country? Lots of thorns in the desert.
Having grown up in first Nelson (1926) and Seachlight (1928-38) the desert is and has always been my home. Even the high school years in LV was time spent in a small town surrounded by desert (1939-43). After WWII husband Gail and I lived in Las Vegas until retirement. It is personally upsetting to us to think of these huge wind turbines, the large grading of the desert varnish to accommodate them, the accompanying noise, killing of birds, noise pollution. Whatever happened to the concern for the desert tortoise? Is he/she only vulnerable when PETA or the Tortoise groups can collect money to “save” them?? To have wind turbines lining State Route 165 to Nelson is inconceivable to those of us who choose to live away from noise and flashing lights!