Tag: Nevada
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Public Health Versus A Nevada Coal Plant
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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Las Vegas Building Is Made from 500,000 Beer Bottles Consumed on the Strip
A design firm has built itself a 30,000 square foot manufacturing facility from recycled beer bottles.
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World's First Solar-Geothermal Hybrid Plant Opens in the Nevada Desert
A recently opened power plant in the Nevada desert uses two types of renewable energy.
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Sprawl is What Happens in Vegas (Time-Lapse Video)
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas? See if you agree.
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Jargon Watch: "Workampers" Follow Seasonal Jobs By RV
The mobile lifestyle isn't always so attractive; welcome to the new migrant workers of the electronic age
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Citizens Forced to Pour Bleach on Perfectly Good Produce (Video)
A Farm-to-Table Dinner is interrupted by health inspectors, who force citizens to pour bleach on the entire feast.
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990 MW Proposed Nevada Wind Farm Would Be Largest In US & State's First
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 billion, including the necessary access roads and
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9-Year-Old's Science Fair Project Saves City Thousands of Gallons of Water
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 9-year-old from Reno, Nevada,
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Sin City Hotel Sponsors Sustainable Artist
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 customers of
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The Nevada Paradox: How Atmospheric Bomb Tests Made Americans Paranoid About Nuclear Power
US citizens over age 50 (the Harry Reid demographic) had their childhoods shadowed by decades of
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Big Squirreltail Evolves to Fight Off Fiery, Invasive Cheatgrass
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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Biggest Solar PV Farm in U.S. Goes Online in Nevada
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, located in Boulder City, Nevada, has the benefit of
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Public Mistrusts Nuclear Power, Report Says
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 nuclear reactors being built worldwide, and more
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Lake Mead At Lowest Level Since 1956: Water Users Conserving, Hoping For Rain Next Year
"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 declined, revealing the chalky-white structure of
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Desert Oasis Water Source Traced Back to Nuclear Test Site
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, including an
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Elizabeth Carmel's Spectacular Sierra Nevada, Captured Before Global Warming Changes it All (Slideshow)
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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Preserved by Prostitution: 400 Acres in Nevada
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 landscapes from
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Tahoe's Environmental Dilema: Build Green or Not at All?
The city of Crystal Bay, Nevada, a quaint town on Lake Tahoe's northern shore, has become the ideological battleground for local
