http://www.windaction.org/ facts, analysis, exposure of wind energy's real impacts en-us Windaction hourly 1 http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.windaction.org/articles/12515 Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.windaction.org/articles/12515 http://www.windaction.org/articles/9666 Sun, 20 May 2007 11:58:53 GMT The Riverside County Planning Commission approved plans to add 40 wind turbines off Indian Avenue adjacent to Desert Hot Springs. PPM Energy's project is known as the Dillon Wind Project. http://www.windaction.org/articles/9666 http://www.windaction.org/articles/9566 Mon, 14 May 2007 11:58:57 GMT Protesters stand along Indian Avenue in North Palm Springs on Sunday to oppose the future construction of windmills. http://www.windaction.org/articles/9566 http://www.windaction.org/articles/9378 Sun, 06 May 2007 11:08:07 GMT A flock of sheep treks beneath a wind turbine in the Montezuma Hills. The approximately 700 turbines, each with three blades atop 400-foot towers, whirl amid the Delta breezes. Thus, a couple thousand blades lumbering through circles of air 200 feet in diameter, are hard to miss. http://www.windaction.org/articles/9378 http://www.windaction.org/articles/9326 Fri, 04 May 2007 10:44:59 GMT The wind farm at Altamont Pass, California, has more than 5,000 power-generating towers. http://www.windaction.org/articles/9326 http://www.windaction.org/articles/8748 Tue, 03 Apr 2007 12:36:02 GMT Frank Banks, a long time West Garnet resident http://www.windaction.org/articles/8748 http://www.windaction.org/articles/8741 Tue, 03 Apr 2007 11:57:42 GMT Joyce Manley, who lives in the Painted Hills neighborhood near Desert Hot Springs, Calif., has been fighting nearby wind turbine projects for six years. ‘It’s like having a disco going all night long,’ she says. http://www.windaction.org/articles/8741 http://www.windaction.org/articles/8209 Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:54:22 GMT Some environmentalists oppose wind farms, such as this one in the Mojave Desert in California, because they consider the projects to be eyesores planted on near-pristine landscapes. http://www.windaction.org/articles/8209 http://www.windaction.org/articles/7754 Sat, 03 Feb 2007 16:47:54 GMT General Electric wind turbines lining wheat fields in California. Wind sometimes fails to blow when power is most needed. http://www.windaction.org/articles/7754 http://www.windaction.org/articles/7317 Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:06:40 GMT San Gorgonio Pass in southern California http://www.windaction.org/articles/7317 http://www.windaction.org/articles/7124 Fri, 29 Dec 2006 12:53:00 GMT General Electric wind turbines lining wheat fields in California. Wind sometimes fails to blow when power is most needed. http://www.windaction.org/articles/7124 http://www.windaction.org/articles/6990 Tue, 19 Dec 2006 22:15:20 GMT Windmills line the Alta-Mesa hill near Whitewater. http://www.windaction.org/articles/6990 http://www.windaction.org/articles/5946 Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:47:17 GMT Wind turbines on the Alta-Mesa hill near Whitewater. http://www.windaction.org/articles/5946 http://www.windaction.org/articles/4900 Wed, 06 Sep 2006 20:41:15 GMT Spinning turbines at one of the San Gorgonio Pass wind farms near Palm Springs, California. http://www.windaction.org/articles/4900 http://www.windaction.org/articles/6754 Sat, 12 Aug 2006 13:32:24 GMT A California Division of Forestry helicopter comes in to land in the Snow Creek area of Palm Springs, south of Highway 111 junction at I-10 after making an aerial water drop on a 150 acre fire in the foothills on Aug. 12. http://www.windaction.org/articles/6754 http://www.windaction.org/articles/2628 Fri, 21 Apr 2006 16:39:25 GMT Norbert Woerns recently took this photo of the Mojave Wind installation as he was driving down a freeway in Southern California toward the Joshua Tree National Park. http://www.windaction.org/articles/2628 http://www.windaction.org/articles/1165 Tue, 03 Jan 2006 16:45:23 GMT http://www.windaction.org/articles/1165 http://www.windaction.org/articles/3380 Wed, 01 Jan 2003 05:00:00 GMT Modern windmills, like these near an old-fashioned windmill in Birds Landing, Calif., stand hundreds of feet tall. http://www.windaction.org/articles/3380 http://www.windaction.org/articles/2873 Tue, 01 Jan 2002 05:00:00 GMT Clouds hang over the mountains in 2002 near a wind farm outside Palm Springs, Calif. http://www.windaction.org/articles/2873 http://www.windaction.org/articles/378 GMT http://www.windaction.org/articles/378