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Conserving Water Lowers Greenhouse Gas Footprint - Significantly

October 22, 2009, 4:38 am

This headline seems confusing but is easily explained. Water did not magically show up at your shower on the 31'st floor. It was pushed up to your bareness by a series of massive electric

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Tahoe's Environmental Dilema: Build Green or Not at All?

November 29, 2009, 3:37 am

The city of Crystal Bay, Nevada, a quaint town on Lake Tahoe's northern shore, has become the ideological battleground for local

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Preserved by Prostitution: 400 Acres in Nevada

December 18, 2009, 8:39 am

Conservation efforts sometimes create unlikely bedfellows. By keeping tracts of land off-limits, high-security prisons, closed borders, and wars and other conflicts can inadvertently protect natural...

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Elizabeth Carmel's Spectacular Sierra Nevada, Captured Before Global Warming...

February 22, 2010, 8:00 am

In the 1930s, famed photographer Ansel Adams' images of the Kings River region of the Sierra Nevada helped protect the area as a national park. Seventy years later, photographer

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Desert Oasis Water Source Traced Back to Nuclear Test Site

June 9, 2010, 8:18 am

In the middle of the dessert near Death Valley, Nevada is a water source that bubbles up 100,000 gallons of water per minute. The oasis is home to 24 species that are found no where else on earth,...

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Lake Mead At Lowest Level Since 1956: Water Users Conserving, Hoping For Rain...

August 12, 2010, 10:12 am

"The Hoover Dam holds back Lake Mead (left photo accented by a rainbow) in 1983, the year its highest water elevation is recorded. By 2009 (right), Lake Mead's water-elevation level has dramatically...

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Public Mistrusts Nuclear Power, Report Says

August 16, 2010, 4:29 am

Arkansas Nuclear One power plant. Photo by Topato via Flickr.com. Guest bloggers Andrea Donsky and Randy Boyer are co-founders of NaturallySavvy.com. Nuclear power is exploding. Right now there are 50...

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Biggest Solar PV Farm in U.S. Goes Online in Nevada

December 14, 2010, 12:20 pm

Photo: Sempra Energy 48 Megawatts of Goodness It's 10x smaller than the planned 500 MW solar PV farm that Sempra is trying to build near Phoenix, Arizona, but the 48 MW Copper Mountain Solar facility,...

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Big Squirreltail Evolves to Fight Off Fiery, Invasive Cheatgrass

February 12, 2011, 7:11 am

Nicknaming plants. Now there's a good job to have. The invasive plant in this tale, called "cheatgrass," is being fought off by a native

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The Nevada Paradox: How Atmospheric Bomb Tests Made Americans Paranoid About...

March 22, 2011, 5:54 pm

US citizens over age 50 (the Harry Reid demographic) had their childhoods shadowed by decades of

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Sin City Hotel Sponsors Sustainable Artist

April 6, 2011, 5:00 am

Making art out of recycled materials is nothing new, but Las Vegas-based artist Steven Spann is putting a new twist on the idea by using in his work whatever is collected for him by employees and...

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9-Year-Old's Science Fair Project Saves City Thousands of Gallons of Water

June 5, 2011, 8:34 pm

So often there's the sense that only with dramatic change can we bring about a more sustainable world -- but in reality, sometimes all it takes is the imagination of a child. Meet Mason Perez, a...

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990 MW Proposed Nevada Wind Farm Would Be Largest In US & State's First

September 20, 2011, 7:35 am

What may be Nevada's first wind farm would also be the largest in the United States. Proposed by a subsidiary of Good Energies, the 990 MW project would consist of 350 turbines, and cost up to $1.5...

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Citizens Forced to Pour Bleach on Perfectly Good Produce (Video)

November 14, 2011, 5:17 am

A Farm-to-Table Dinner is interrupted by health inspectors, who force citizens to pour bleach on the entire feast.

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Jargon Watch: "Workampers" Follow Seasonal Jobs By RV

December 21, 2011, 10:02 am

The mobile lifestyle isn't always so attractive; welcome to the new migrant workers of the electronic age

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Sprawl is What Happens in Vegas (Time-Lapse Video)

March 24, 2012, 5:11 am

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas? See if you agree.

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World's First Solar-Geothermal Hybrid Plant Opens in the Nevada Desert

July 17, 2012, 2:00 am

A recently opened power plant in the Nevada desert uses two types of renewable energy.

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Las Vegas Building Is Made from 500,000 Beer Bottles Consumed on the Strip

July 20, 2012, 2:00 am

A design firm has built itself a 30,000 square foot manufacturing facility from recycled beer bottles.

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Public Health Versus A Nevada Coal Plant

July 20, 2012, 8:59 am

The Moapa Band of Paiutes are coping with health problems caused by the Reid Gardner coal-fired power plant in Nevada.

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SolarCity expands to sunny Nevada, starts taking orders today

May 1, 2014, 1:15 pm

Some things make so much sense, they are no-brainers. It's often more a question of 'when' than of 'if'.

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Elon Musk: 200 Gigafactories needed for electric car demand alone

May 19, 2014, 4:13 pm

Elon Musk sent a thrilling chill through the electric car, energy storage, and investment sectors when he announced Tesla would be building a Gigafactory for electric car battery production. Now he's...

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