It’s early afternoon and Brett Isaac, a barrel-chested 27-year-old whose soft-spokenness gives the impression of a gentle giant, is explaining the purpose of the solar trailer hitched to the back of his truck. “One thing we never think about is that each of us produces energy,” Isaac, renewable energy Project Manager for the Shonto Community […]
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Interview: Author William deBuys On Climate Change In The Southwest
William deBuys is the author of seven books, including most recently “A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest,” for which I wrote a Dot Earth book review last month. As part of my summer reporting project on energy and climate change in the Southwest, I had the pleasure of driving deep into the heart […]
Preventing Fires, Before Everything’s Aflame
Story originally appeared on Climate Central: http://www.climatecentral.org/news/preventing-catastrophic-fires-what-goes-on-when-everythings-not-aflame/ By Ari Phillips Wildfires have been national news this summer. Massive, destructive burns in Colorado and New Mexico have emblazoned websites and TV screens across the country. But just as the monsoon rains roll into the Southwest bringing much needed moisture, the nation’s gaze over the fires will move […]
Monsoon Season Arrives In The Southwest
I seem to have brought the summer monsoon rains with me to New Mexico. Monsoon season, the Southwest’s fifth season, arrives in early July and lasts into the first week of September. It is a highly anticipated time of year that brings up to half the region’s annual rainfall. It also brings extreme weather events, […]
