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What does energy independence look like?

To us, it starts with Solar Power and Green Buildings. 
 

That's why we're sponsoring, along with the Grand County Public Library, Canyonlands Sustainable Solutions, Community Rebuilds and WabiSabi, two days of free workshops in Moab on solar power and green building.

Saturday, May 17th - 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Grand County Public Library, 257 E Center Street, Moab

Space is limited.  Please sign up by calling the Grand County Public Library at 259-5421 or by sending an email to adrea@moablibrary.org.

Presentation by Solar Energy International (Carbondale, CO), which will include:

• Sustainable Building Design (passive solar, thermal mass, building science, natural building materials and methods)

• Energy Efficiency

• Solar Thermal (domestic hot water, space heating)

• Solar Electric (Off Grid Systems, On Grid Systems-net metering)

Sunday, May 18th

9 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. - Local Green-Built Home Tour

1 p.m. - 6 p.m. - Straw Bale Building Workshop

Space is limited.  To sign up or for more information, contact emily@communityrebuilds.org or call Laurel at 259-2520.

Photo by Susie Grant

Amy Irvine-McHarg, our Capacity Building Specialist, has written her second book,

“Trespass is a book full of transgressions because Amy Irvine has dared to examine the nature of orthodoxy, be it religion, environmentalism, or marriage. What saves this book from simply becoming an indulgence is her fidelity and love for all things beautiful and broken, especially the redrock desert of southern Utah.  If erosion is the face of a changing landscape, Amy Irving has written erosional prose.  This is a transformative memoir that dances between shadow and light.”   —Terry Tempest Williams, author of Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place and Red: Passion and patience in the Desert  

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Our Issues Director recently published, Compromising Democracy:  The Rise and Fall of the Second Conquest of Western Rangelands.  In his book, Shepherd reveals a unique insight into the management of federal rangelands in the West.

"Shepherd shines new light on how back room deals and political power mongers as far away as Washington D.C. are impacting on-the-ground management and protection of Western public rangelands." -- George Wuerthner, editor of WildFire:  A Century of Failed Forest Policy. 

You can order his book from Arches Book Company in Moab.