Coyote Crossing

Though leaving the Sierra Club was wrenching,

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Cats and windmills

Image by Carl Buell.

The next person I see arguing that we shouldn’t worry about giant windmills because domestic cats kill far more birds, I’m going to take out to the middle of the Mojave so I can run them over with my Jeep.

This will be a

“Get some perspective on climate change!”

I subscribe to an email list operated by the Sierra Club and devoted to the topic of desert conservation. The majority of the active participants on the list are horrified by the Club’s support of desert public lands energy development, but every

“We need to not be the environmentalists who say NO to everything.”

Ken Salazar and Arnold Schwarzenegger formally approved Chevron’s Lucerne Valley Solar project and Tessera’s Imperial Solar Two project today.

The Sierra Club took no action to prevent the second — despite the site’s being intact habitat for the

A few other desert solar things

Item: I had a significant uptick in people signing off of the email version of this site’s feed as soon as yesterday’s edition hit the tubes, no doubt due to my dissing the Sierra Club. Such things happen, but it reminds me that I should make

What’s wrong with this picture?

The Sierra Club National defends its support of paving desert wildlands with solar sprawl by saying things like “rooftop solar is great, but we can’t install it soon enough.”

Apparently they really meant that. Our pal Morongo Bill did a little

Last Summer at Ivanpah

Ancient desert slated for destruction. Laura Cunningham photo.

There is a story that has haunted me since I first heard it, and it comes to mind often these days. It was in the early 1960s, and the Sierra Club — playing politics in order to save