Category: Published Issues

In This Issue • Drive Like A Tortoise • A Crisis At Ash Meadows • Ice Age Fossils In The Nevada Desert • Harvesting Desert Groundwater • Lithium Mining In The Desert • Large Scale Solar On Public Lands • A New Conservation Rule For BLM Administered Lands • Whose Water Is It? Water Bottler's … Continue reading September 2023 – Latest Issue

In This Issue • The Resolution Copper Mine • Revised General Plan For Red Rock Canyon State Park • The Lithium Industry In Imperial County • Permanently Protecting An 'Island In The Sky' • Groundwater & CA Sustainable Groundwater Management Act • Cooking With Sunshine • This Water Has Magic: A Poem By Christiana Saldana … Continue reading June 2023 – Latest

In This Issue • A Bigger Picture • The Anthropocene: A Changed Planet • Self-Devouring Serpents In The Anthropocene • Wildland Fires In The Anthropocene • Overshoot & The Incredible Shrinking Planet • A Planet Out Of Balance: Reproductive Autonomy • Corporations And The Environment: Joel Bakan • Modest Proposals For An Ecological Economy • … Continue reading May 2023 – Special Issue

In this issue • Climate Change Is Here: Rain Events in Death Valley National Park • A New Model For Public Lands: Bears Ears National Monument • Disadvantaged Communities In The Imperial Valley • Desert Triage: Large-Scale Solar On Public Lands • Ninety Miles From Needles Podcast • Desert Updates • Book Review: The Settler … Continue reading March 2023

In this issue • The Colorado River: Is it Simply a Water Problem? • The Desert Tortoise In California • Salton Sea: The Saga Continues • Passion For The Environment: What Keeps Activists Engaged • An Activist Responds • Life Beyond The Alarms: Finding My Place In Climate Chaos • Opportunity For Action: The California … Continue reading December 2022

In this issue • Walking Box Ranch: Past, Present And Future • Moving Toward Recovery Of The Amargosa Vole • Greenlink Transmission Line is Being Fast-Tracked • Economic Growth And Sustainability: Introducing Peter Victor, Ecological Economist • Carbon Sequestration In Our Desert Lands: Essential to California's 30X30 Initiative • Mutt Kupshuw-'Éexil Kwáavichush National Monument • … Continue reading September 2022

INTRODUCTION • From the Editor: Renewable Solar Energy • Solar Photovoltaics In The Energy Transformation LARGE SCALE SOLAR FACILITIES • The Desert Is Alive : And It's Threatened • Scraped Earth And Desert Winds: Fugitive Dust • A Costly Omission: Carbon Sequestered in Soils • Solar Energy That Spares The Land LOCALLY GENERATED ENERGY • … Continue reading August 2022 – Special Issue

Fundamental Choices • Corporate Sustainability Has Failed Us • The GDP: It's Complicated Other articles • Species On The Edge Of Extinction • Mining For Strategic Minerals • Preserving History In A Classic Landscape: Old Dutch Cleaner Mine • Desert Updates • Joshua Trees: A Tangled Past, An Uncertain Future • Crisis In The Coyote … Continue reading June 2022

Fundamental Choices • About The Day The World Stops Shopping • How the Genie Escaped the Bottle: Our love-hate relationship with plastic Other articles • Indian Pass Protected • Voices From Death Valley's Chaos:
 Remembering Bennie Troxel and Lauren Wright • Desert Home: A Photographer's Journey • Desert Updates • Botanical Riches of Conglomerate Mesa … Continue reading March 2022

Fundamental Choices • The Environmental Crisis & Fundamental Choices • The Steady State Economy • Forced Urban Density And Energy Sprawl Other articles • Bears Ears: A Primer • The Deadly Border Wall • Water Security Throughout The Colorado River • Desert Updates • Gold Exploration In Long Valley • Song Of The Desert: Ode … Continue reading December 2021