Results tagged “riverside county”
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Solar PEIS:
The groups charge that the Bureau of Land Management should have examined alternatives that concentrate development on disturbed lands and in the urban environment, not public lands.
Riverside:
The towns in the eastern side of the Coachella Valley have long utilized romanticized portrayals of the Middle East to shape views of their own desert backyard.
Solar Thermal:
The project in Riverside County would be California's first solar power plant to incorporate thermal storage.
Climate Change:
One glacier expert is saying human industrial activity has already locked in 69 feet of sea level rise. If that's true, what would that mean for California?
Notes of a Native Daughter:
This is what it means to have been a teacher for 30 years, as of this new January quarter.
Transportation:
Caltrans announced today it has put in place ways to warn desert travelers of such massive traffic jams like the catastrophic February 12, 2012 backup.
Riverside:
Tyler Stallings revisits the 2003 exhibition, "Whiteness, A Wayward Construction," in light of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Notes of a Native Daughter:
You might think that we've all heard this speech, these words, before. All of us in America, by now. We have. But I stood, transfixed, unable to move, looking out the window while he said words not as often quoted.
Concentrating Solar:
BrightSource Energy, which had called its planned 500-megawatt Rio Mesa solar project a crucial step in developing reliable solar power generation, now says it's putting that project on hold.
Guides:
The California desert offers millions of acres of amazing things to see and do. With so much to choose from, where does a person start?
Concentrating Solar:
Riverside County has significant concerns over how BrightSource Energy's 500-megawatt solar thermal plant would affect the county's wildlife, historic sites, and public health and welfare.
Photovoltaic (PV):
Another industrial solar plant on public lands gets closer to approval in the California Desert.
Notes of a Native Daughter:
There are six sisters in this story, and one brother, all educated in a one-room schoolhouse, ninety children and one teacher, and all of them went to college, and their kids went to college. This story, and the sweet potato pie, come from slavery, which Americans don't like to talk about any more.
Solar:
Two important articles on desert solar power projects graced the pages of major Southern California newspapers this weekend.
Wind:
A proposed wind turbine installation that would have covered more than 63,000 acres of the California desert has been canceled by the federal government.
Riverside:
A new exhibition at UCR ARTSblock features defunct motorcycle club vests and their colorful club patches that represent a unique form of American folk art.
Photovoltaic (PV):
The BLM has released the final environmental documents for a proposed 135-megawatt solar facility on intact desert habitat near Joshua Tree National Park.
Notes of a Native Daughter:
Jose Medina walked into the banquet room at Zacateca's Restaurant on Riverside's Eastside to loud cheers and clapping of hundreds of supporters.
Government:
California's desert has voted, with turnout running around 50%, and the results of each Congressional race will likely surprise no one - but it looks as though the region may have shifted ever so slightly toward the liberal end of the spectrum.
The Hidden Desert:
Joshua Tree National Park plans to make it easier for people to leave their cars and see cholla cacti by removing cholla to make more room for cars.
