Wind energy is often seen as an energy source to be used in large, flat areas, for example the United States' midwest or the plains of northern Europe. However, as turbine technology develops and electricity transmission becomes constrained, developers are looking to areas that were until ...
While out on a road run with Lita Ford several years back, I was sitting alone in a hotel lobby somewhere in the Midwest, waiting to head out to soundcheck. It was mid-December, and the lobby had been transformed into a veritable winter wonderland, as a sizable Christmas tree and an e...
Large-bodied herbivores are unique in their capacity to consume large quantities of plant biomass and, as the largest terrestrial animals, they are uniquely capable of causing disturbance to vegetation and soils. These taxa thus exert strong top-down control on ecological communities and ecosystem pro...
I had not considered, for example, how the elemental change from one form into another could so completely block the migration of caribou, and thereby constrict one of the largest and most consequential movements of animals—of blood, heat, and nutrients, of life itself—anywhere on earth. Per...
matching it to the land that it’s going to be sit on and the building department. So let’s just say someone wanted to build a boxy ranch home, just a 1200-square-foot ranch home and put it in a Midwestern area, kind of flat land. They bought 2 acres from a farmer. They are ...
Washington and New York have no organized lobbying groups for renters. Yet for 2012 renting is likely the best bet for many of those that still have yet to purchase a home and are thinking about diving in. The machine wants you to be a homeowner even...