Coyote Crossing

More grist for the desert solar mill

The Western Lands Project, a wonderful and effective small non-profit working to protect public lands in the western United States from encroachment and privatization, has just put out its newsletter. Aside from a nice plug for this here site, the

Desert Solar FAQ

The more I dig into desert solar power issues, the more I get asked certain kinds of questions. I figured it was time to try to answer a few of them here so that I could just point people at a page to save time.

I’ll add more supporting links over

Selling out desert wildlands

One more group says “We care about these intact desert wildlands, but not those over there.” Embedded here is The Wildlands Conservancy’s testimony, delivered this morning, on the California Desert Protection Act of 2010. The Wildland Conservancy’s

A Call for a Standard: Zero Net Loss of Desert Wildlands

This is a nice little video in support of the California Desert Protection Act of 2010. Watch it. I have a question I’ll ask afterward.

Who Needs a Desert? Solar Power in the Mojave from Peter Rhalter on Vimeo.

It’s a nifty little debunking of

A trip to the Yuha Desert

My brief account of business conducted in the Imperial Valley this weekend is up at … (continues)

Desert Solar Is Not Renewable Energy

[A sneak preview of a piece I wrote this week for the Desert Protective Council’s upcoming Educational Bulletin. I cribbed a few sentences from my earlier post on ancient blackbrush forests.]

As the reality of human-generated climate change grows