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.
Sierra Club Wind Siting Advisory Document
By
Paul Gipe
Note: The Sierra Club is a grass roots or member-driven environmental organization in the United States founded by the …
BLM Wind Energy Programmatic EIS Scoping Questions
By
Paul Gipe
BLM Wind Energy Programmatic EIS Scoping Argonne National Laboratory EAD/900 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439 RE: …
Wind Energy “Best Practice” Guides–Wresting Standards from Conflict
By
Paul Gipe
The following article appeared in an edited form in the Spring 2003 issue of WindStats Newsletter (Vol. 16 No. …
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? . .
