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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