Growth as our primary industry: Ponzi for the taxpayers

I was disapointed, but hardly surprised to see that the Spring Mountain development had been approved - along with all the access roads, and strip malls, fast food joints, traffic, pollution and stressed infrastructure to accomodate it.

We have it backwards, as Americans. Somehow we’ve gotten the notion - call it the “if you build it they will come” delusion - that gives us more of everything except quality of life and a sustainable future.

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Here we go again: Winnemucca Ranch development

I guess that the Regional Planning Governing Board (RPGB) thinks we’re all so focused on the trainwreck that is our failing economy that they see this as an opportune moment to trot this bad idea - expansion into the wild and beautiful Winnemucca Ranch area - out again. Jeeze, Louise. Can’t they just let it die?

An email from opponents of this half-baked plan to decimate some more wilderness came in this afternoon, asking that folks join them on March 12, at 2:00 p.m. at the County Complex on Ninth Street, to show solidarity. A big crowd will look good for the cameras. Then the extras can go home while the main cast stay to do the heavy lifting.

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Putting perfume on the pig* at Spring Mountain

It sounds so warm, so fuzzy and so wonderfully ‘green’. Spring Mountain, nestled in a verdant and undeveloped valley 25 miles north of Reno, is described as “the nations’ first master-planned, renewable energy community”. I am dazzled with visions – provided by the developers – of electric cars zipping around through homes powered by wind and sun. Why then does it feel so wrong?

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