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It’s a challenging time for La Plata Electric Association. The electric utility world is undergoing a classic technology disruption, where rapid advances threaten to upend decades-old business...
DATE: Feb. 18, 2018 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
It might be easy to chuckle at the silliness of the conspiracy theorists convinced the United Nations is scheming with La Plata County to forcibly relocate rural folks into urban housing centers....
DATE: Jan. 21, 2018 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
Last week’s events punctuated by the Trump administration’s cavalier abandonment of a century’s worth of American conservation practice is greatly discouraging. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke wiped...
DATE: Dec. 16, 2017 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
With the onset of winter, it’s never too early to daydream of next year’s adventures. Nowhere compares with the raw, spontaneous wildness of Alaska’s primeval landscapes teeming with abundant...
DATE: Nov. 18, 2017 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
Last week, the House of Representatives Natural Resources Committee passed a bill to prevent presidents from creating national monuments. It would severely limit the future preservation of many...
DATE: Oct. 20, 2017 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
As we stand transfixed by the enormously powerful hurricanes churning across the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, one can’t help but think about our place in the climate-change continuum. Here in the...
DATE: Sept. 15, 2017 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
A few weeks ago, we sent forth our champion with bated breath and hopeful expectations to plead our case before Tri-State, to please allow us to generate more electricity locally here at home in La...
DATE: Aug. 18, 2017 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
Waiving rules to prevent methane pollution. Stripping wetlands of protection under the Clean Water Act. Throwing out restrictions against strip-mining mountaintops and dumping the spoils into...
DATE: July 14, 2017 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
“It’s all about the economics,” the expert said. “Technologies have improved to make other forms of energy less expensive than coal.” One might figure sure, that’s some tree-hugging...
DATE: June 16, 2017 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
We’re in uncharted waters. A presidential administration just launched an overarching attack on more than 11 million acres of previously protected landscapes. The Trump administration’s new...
DATE: May 18, 2017 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
This being the last column I have the privilege to write for The Durango Herald, there’s a certain pressure I feel to pen a magnum opus of sorts. Let me pour some cold water on that thought. No...
DATE: April 14, 2017 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
News flash: The Dalai Lama, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, just weighed in on the proposed expansion of heli-ski terrain around Silverton. Really? Truth be told, no. But have you ever noticed how the...
DATE: March 15, 2017 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
