Jay McGrew, an independent energy conservation consultant, says “the insulation business is a little bit like the insurance business. The salesmen always want to sell you more than you need.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/10.8/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Joan Nice
Posted inMarch 24, 1978: Colorado, maverick of the inland Western states
Colorado, maverick of the inland Western states
Colorado’s congressional delegation has the best environmental voting record of any state in the Northern Rockies. Only on the issue of water has Colorado recently voted as a typical inland Western delegation. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/10.6/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inFebruary 10, 1978: Are commercial solar systems worth the price?
Are commercial solar systems worth the price?
Enthusiasm for solar electric technology is being dampened by the reality that most consumers cannot afford it. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/10.3/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inNovember 4, 1977: Solar heating industry troubled by installation, operating problems
Solar heating industry troubled by installation, operating problems
The stories of solar homeowners indicate that harnessing the sun for heat by putting collectors on a roof may not be as simple as it appears. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/9.21/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 9, 1977: Firms buy out opposition
Desolation Canyon becoming perhaps too popular
The Bureau of Reclamation may begin a reservation system for the Desolation Canyon section of Utah’s Green River amid concerns about the growing number of river visitors. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/9.17/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 1, 1977: Cowtown's manure means megawatts
Cowtown’s manure means megawatts
A Colorado company called Bio-Gas claims it can provide rural electricity by harvesting and digesting cow manure to produce burnable methane gas. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/9.13/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMay 20, 1977: Carter's energy plan will push Western coal boom
Rod Nash sees end to the freedom of the hills
Roderick Nash, whose passion is exploring and preserving wilderness, sees wilderness not as an amenity, but as a powerful aid for overcoming a frontier mentality. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/9.10/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMarch 25, 1977: Utah legislature vows to make more and use less
Utah legislature vows to make more and use less
Although Utah is one of the first Western states to require all new buildings to meet energy conservation standards, it has also been instrumental in pushing the controversial Intermountain Power Project coal-fired power plant. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/9.6/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 17, 1976: Domestic technology offers low-income people opportunity
Domestic technology offers low-income people opportunity
At a time when energy prices are making it increasingly difficult for people to make ends meet, Malcolm Lillywhite shows people simple technology that they can use to produce quality food and shelter at low cost. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/8.25/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 24, 1976: Joy, shipmates, joy!
Ranchers weigh grazing rules
The first revisions of the Bureau of Land Management’s grazing rules in 40 years are being applauded by some environmental groups and viewed with skepticism by some grazing groups. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/8.19/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inSeptember 24, 1976: Joy, shipmates, joy!
Sheet metal firm sells ‘Sun Grabber’
Don Erickson is a modest, cautious man. These qualities set him apart from most other solar energy equipment manufacturers eager to build a market for a new product. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/8.19/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 4, 1976: Designating wilderness -- asking for destruction?
AERO dramatizes alternative energy
With its New Western Energy Show, Montana-based Alternative Energy Resources Organization spreads the solar and wind gospel — old Western medicine man style. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/8.12/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inApril 9, 1976: 'Either we share it or we lose it'
You can invent an energy system
At a conference hosted by Montana-based Alternative Energy Resources Organization, participants were encouraged to start tinkering — to design a home-built solar energy system out of local materials that would suit their particular climate, site, and financial resources. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/8.8/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inMarch 12, 1976: Saving swamps for ducks and men
Should you buy solar now — or wait?
HCN talks with architect and engineer Dick Crowther about whether the smart consumer should hold out for lower prices, better technology, and companies with better established reputations. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/8.6/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inFebruary 27, 1976: Salesmen with sun power woo West
Salesmen with sun power woo West
The solar energy industry is a booming business, containing all of the perils of rapid growth — fast-buck men, scant history, few standards and regulations, and consumer confusion. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/8.5/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inFebruary 13, 1976: BLM farm plans hold promise, problems
Mike Frome nails resource scandals
Conservation writer Michael Frome is well-qualified to comment on the risks of speaking out — he’s spent much of his career nailing down natural resource scandals and naming the people responsible, and has lost two jobs for his candor. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/8.4/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inDecember 19, 1975: NEPA at stake?
NEPA at stake?
After losing a lawsuit involving grazing allotments, the Bureau of Land Management has expressed concern that the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) — considered to be the country’s most important environmental law — is making the agency vulnerable to lawsuits that drain time and resources, raising questions about that law’s future. Download entire issue to […]
Posted inOctober 24, 1975: Battle over Teton jetport still rages
Save-the-range lawsuit riles ranchers, BLM
An environmental lawsuit aimed at stopping abuses on public lands is causing management problems, according to the Bureau of Land Management in Wyoming, although in both Nevada and Oregon, BLM officials are in the process of implementing range improvements. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/7.21/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJuly 4, 1975: Energy conservation: Belt-tightening, leak-plugging, new technology
Slowing energy growth gives us time to choose
Can you imagine a U.S. energy future which doesn’t require immediate and massive commitments to western coal and oil shale development, nuclear power, offshore oil or foreign imports? Such a future is possible, according to the Ford Foundation’s Energy Policy Project. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/7.14/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E
Posted inJune 20, 1975: 'Irrigation water' all goes to industry
Is the Sierra Club in the national interest?
A public debate in Casper, Wyoming, this month focused on an oil man’s query: Are the energy-related policies of the Sierra Club in the national interest? Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/7.13/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E