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S2E5: The Problems with Desert Solar

S2E5: The Problems with Desert Solar

From90 Miles from Needles: the Desert Protection Podcast


S2E5: The Problems with Desert Solar

From90 Miles from Needles: the Desert Protection Podcast

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Length:
52 minutes
Released:
Mar 19, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

The US Interior Department is rethinking the ways it has managed big corporate solar on public lands, and we have opinions. Chris pontificates based on his many years of covering public lands renewable energy as a recovering journalist, and Alicia interrupts his solarsplaining once in a while to inject some non-jargon-ridden analysis.
We love solar! We want it in our backyards! And we want to protect desert habitat from industrial development. We can do both.Also: we announce a new project, a special project podcast focusing on the wonderful Amargosa Basin in Nevada and California. More on that soon.
 If you'd like to hear more of Charlie King's work, check out his website at charlieking.org. 
The album Chris mentions in the closing notes can be purchased here, with all proceeds going to the artist.Support us!: https://90milesfromneedles.com/patreonSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Released:
Mar 19, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (54)

It's not a real desert hike unless you get thirsty. Unless your skin gets punctured by an innocent-looking plant. Unless you have a close encounter with a nervous venomous critter. The desert is alive, and it will defend itself. And we will help. 90 Miles from Needles’ cohosts Chris Clarke and Alicia Pike bring you stories from far out in the American outback: a land unlike any other that is both intense and subtle, that has endured for eons in the harshest conditions imaginable but which could go away in a heartbeat if we act the wrong way. Science, politics, hiking and history, culture and creativity all go into defending the desert. Be forewarned.: We are out to recruit you to the cause.