GREEN ENERGY

“Green” Energy vs. the Mojave Desert

Interview with Kevin Emmerich of Basin & Range Watch

Kollibri terre Sonnenblume
Age of Awareness
Published in
27 min readDec 2, 2024

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In the latest episode of my podcast, Speaking For The Trees, No Matter Where They’re From, I interview Kevin Emmerich, co-founder of Basin & Range Watch, a non-profit environmental organization based in southern Nevada that educates people about threats to public land from industrial development and energy extraction in the Mojave Desert and the Great Basin. These regions have been ground zero for “green energy” due to their plentiful sunlight, strong winds and lithium deposits.

Kevin enjoyed a career in the National Park Service for 20 years in seven different National Parks and Monuments, including Death Valley National Park since 1991 (now retired). He has also worked as a field biologist for research on desert species such as the Panamint Alligator Lizard, Desert Tortoise, and Mojave Fringe-toed Lizard.

I’ve been following Basin & Range Watch’s work for over a decade, since I saw Kevin quoted in an LA Times article about a “green energy” project in California. I’ve interviewed both Kevin and the organization’s co-founder Laura Cunningham a number of times for print and podcast. I appreciate not only their knowledge and experience, but also the love they both so clearly have for the Southwest, a…

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Age of Awareness
Age of Awareness

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Kollibri terre Sonnenblume
Kollibri terre Sonnenblume

Written by Kollibri terre Sonnenblume

Writer, photographer, tree-hugger, animal-lover, dissident.

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