Results tagged “san bernardino county”
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Concentrating Solar:
The U.S. Fish And Wildlife Service confirms that a protected peregrine falcon was found severely injured on the site of BrightSource Energy's Ivanpah solar facility in September. It died shortly after. Solar flux is being eyed as a possible cause of death.
Photovoltaic (PV):
Local opposition may have doomed a proposed 20-acre solar project in Hesperia.
San Bernardino:
In her paintings and photographs, artist Diane Best illustrates timeless desert panoramic landscapes of the Mojave.
LA as Subject:
Long associated with Southern California's romantic mission past, the pepper tree was once the region's most iconic tree.
East CA:
The state's public health agency has proposed a maximum safe level of the drinking water contaminant made famous by the movie Erin Brockovich, and if they're enacted, some drinking water providers in the desert are going to have to work to clean up their water.
The Hidden Desert:
"Mother of God, what for the sake of all that's holy is that?"
East CA:
There are dangerous places in the California desert. You don't want to get within striking range of a Mojave green. When there's a thunderstorm you don't want to be in a slot canyon. And you definitely don't want to get in between Assemblyman Tim Donnelly and a press opportunity.
Photovoltaic (PV):
Duke Energy Renewables has owned a 21-megawatt solar facility in the California desert since April. This week, the company announced it's added another California solar facility to its portfolio. But this one isn't in the desert: it's in one of the foggiest neighborhoods California has to offer.
National Forests:
The 8.4-mile Skyline Trail is relatively flat, gaining a cumulative 539 feet within the 7,500 to 8,000 foot elevation range.
Wind:
Yet another proposed wind project in the Mojave Desert has been dropped, and the project's likely effect on the local eagle population is a big reason.
East CA:
Good news for Mojave Desert wildlife and the people who value it: Representative Paul Cook has called for a full Federal environmental review of the controversial Cadiz Water Project, which would pump water from a desert aquifer to suburbs in Orange County.
Solar:
California's largest county now has a year-long moratorium in place on new solar facilities
Wind:
The paper published an editorial calling for state and federal agencies to give wind energy a far bigger slice of the pie when portioning out the California desert. Here's why they got it badly wrong.
San Bernardino:
LACMA's mobile educational initiative, the LACMA9 Art + Film Lab, reports on their first city run in Redlands.
The Hidden Desert:
Observers of nature are supposed to be dispassionate, to try to refrain from getting attached to individual animals. We all eat, and die, and are eaten in turn, and that's how life is supposed to work. No sense taking sides.
That's not what happened this morning.
Concentrating Solar:
The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in the Mojave Desert suffered a setback in mid-May when a rupture was found in a tube intended to heat steam for use generating power at one of its units. That rupture followed close on the heels of three "ignition incidents."
Concrete and Chaparral :
Imagine setting aside several months of your life, free from the rat race, free from the daily commute, free from paying the bills, free from the oppressive bonds of daily commitments, and trading it all for discovery and adventure.
San Bernardino:
LACMA's new educational initiative, the LACMA9 Art + Film Lab, is a traveling interactive installation/event and community space that will visit nine SoCal communities over a 16 month period.
East CA:
The names of places in the California Desert can tell interesting stories about those places' history, their landscape, and their importance to people who lived here for centuries.
Camping:
Yes, you can go camping in the desert in the summer. No, you don't have to have a death wish to do so.
