Wind Energy & the Environment
Wind energy works, is increasingly cost-effective, has a net positive environmental impact, and is compatible with most existing land uses. The links below touch on the topic of wind’s environmental benefits and impacts.
Birds, Cuisinarts, Wind Turbines, and the Sierra Club
By
Paul Gipe
The Sierra Club has long advocated the expanded use of renewable sources of energy, including wind energy. The Club judges …
Energy for Life: The Pursuit of an Ethical Energy Policy
By
Paul Gipe
Presented to the Kegley Institute of Ethics, California State University Bakersfield, 17 October 2001 Let’s get this out of the …
Wind power’s benefits outweigh risk to scenery by Charles Komanoff
By
Charles Komanoff
If, by accepting a modest, largely aesthetic change in the landscape, we can heal the earth to this great extent, how in conscience can we not do so? . .
Windy Protest: Conflict Surrounding the Future Potential of Wind Power (Windiger Protest Konflikte um das Zukunftspotential der Windkraft)
By
Paul Gipe
Windiger Protest (Bochum, Germany: Ponte Press, 1998) is a powerful little book edited by Franz Alt, Jürgen Claus, and Hermann …
Wind Turbines & the Landscape: Architecture & Aesthetics by Frode Birk Nielsen
By
Paul Gipe
This is the first of two reports on wind turbines and aesthetic design. The second is The Landscape Impact and …
The Landscape Impact and Visual Design of Windfarms by Caroline Stanton
By
Paul Gipe
This is the second of two reports on wind turbines and aesthetic design. The other is a Review of Wind …
