Inside the cross-border operation that saves fresh food from the trash.
Peter Friederici
Posted inNovember 28, 2016: A Weird and Perfect Wilderness
Hope in a post-nature society
A writer seeks answers from Lake Powell.
Posted inJanuary 20, 2014: Building a More Sustainable West, One City at a Time
Phoenix tries to rise from the flames
The Sunbelt city is one of the nation’s most sweltering urban heat islands. But simple solutions to help cool it are at hand.
Posted inDecember 10, 2012: The Evolution of Wildlife Tech
Will Navajos approve a Grand Canyon megadevelopment?
GAP, Arizona — For over 50 years, residents of this western sliver of the Navajo Nation have watched tourist traffic zoom by on Highway 89, headed for the Grand Canyon, Lake Powell and southern Utah’s national parks. Except for a single gas station and a few ramshackle jewelry stands, there’s little here to attract vacationers’ […]
Posted inJune 1, 2009: Voyage of the Dammed
California prepares for the next burn
Officials — and homeowners — start to accept the inevitability of wildfire
Posted inOctober 13, 2008: Back to the future
A good idea – if you can get away with it
Rainwater harvesting saves water, breaks the law
Posted inSeptember 17, 2007: Facing the yuck factor
Facing the Yuck Factor
How has the West embraced water recycling? Very (gulp) cautiously
Posted inSeptember 17, 2007: Facing the yuck factor
Take back these drugs – please
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, “Facing the Yuck Factor.” Americans love their medications. Pharmacists fill more than 3 billion prescriptions a year in the United States, and consumers also buy huge quantities of over-the-counter drugs. Many of those pharmaceuticals enter wastewater when people urinate. Others end up there when […]
Posted inSeptember 17, 2007: Facing the yuck factor
Making an effluent market
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, “Facing the Yuck Factor.” A sprawling town whose population has grown by more than 50 percent since 2000, Prescott Valley, Ariz., is thirsty and lacks a reliable surface water supply. In most of Arizona, such a combination is no barrier to growth. But Prescott […]
Posted inOctober 30, 2006: Peace Breaks Out In New Mexico's Forests
Biomass: What to do with all that wood
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, “Peace Breaks Out In New Mexico’s Forests.” SANTA FE, New Mexico — Driving through the thickly forested mountains around New Mexico’s state capital, Mark Sardella doesn’t daydream about his next camping trip. Instead, he thinks about the untapped heat locked up in all those […]
Posted inOctober 30, 2006: Peace Breaks Out In New Mexico's Forests
Peace Breaks Out In New Mexico’s Forests
Out of the angry thickets of the past, environmentalists and loggers cut a new path
Posted inOctober 31, 2005: The Public Lands' Big Cash Crop
For this English chef, home is the Colorado Plateau
On Sunday mornings, all summer long, you can find chef John Sharpe at the Flagstaff Community Market, moving among the outdoor produce stalls with the practiced intensity of a hardcore bargain hunter at an outlet mall. He tests the white peaches Rob Lautze has grown at Garland’s Orchard near Sedona: nice, but not enough of […]
Posted inMay 2, 2005: The Great Energy Divide
For this logger, twisted trees are the future
In a corner of his airy shop near Silver City, N.M., Gordon West is working out the kinks in Southwestern forestry. In a small way, of course: Everything he does is intended to work in a small way. West, a middle-aged logger, woodworker and builder, is testing a long metal machine that resembles an overgrown […]
Posted inDecember 3, 2001: Closing the wounds
Stargazers defend darkness in Arizona
Flagstaff becomes the first “International Dark-Sky City”
Posted inMarch 3, 1997: Hunters close ranks, and minds
Lawns and pools close in on desert lab
Tumamoc Hill, Ariz. – When the Carnegie Institution established its desert laboratory on this stony, black basalt hill 94 years ago, some 12,000 residents lived in the small town of Tucson two miles to the east. Today Tucson has grown to almost half a million people, and Sunbelt sprawl threatens the future of one of […]
Posted inApril 15, 1996: Raising a ranch from the dead
About those buff bird-watchers
Dear HCN, While it was certainly entertaining to read that “naturalists’ go to the park to nap in the nude (Heard around the West, March 18) – and perhaps quite true – I can’t help but suspect that you meant “naturists’ instead. What characterizes most of the naturalists I know is not so much an […]
Posted inNovember 29, 1993: Butte, Montana, seeks a new life
Grand Central Canyon
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Grand Central Canyon.