Chris Clarke
Chris Clarke was KCET's Environment Editor until July 2017. He is a veteran environmental journalist and natural history writer. He lives in Joshua Tree.
Archetypal tech prodigy Aaron Swartz took his own life Friday. I've spent the days since thinking about the price people pay when they try to make the world a better place.
The editors of the MIT Technology Review have a message for President Obama: "You've got four years to set us on track to fix the climate, and your own administration's policy is one of the problems."
BrightSource Energy, which had called its planned 500-megawatt Rio Mesa solar project a crucial step in developing reliable solar power generation, now says it's putting that project on hold.
The LADWP's Board unanimously approved a plan Friday to buy 100 megawatts of solar power from property owners throughout the city of Los Angeles.
A Portland-based wind company is walking away from a controversial project near Joshua Tree National Park, saying that there isn't enough wind to justify building turbines.
The California Energy Commission is plowing $1.8 million into UCSD's microgrid to help the University develop it as a model for the rest of the state.
California's groundbreaking program to encourage rooftop solar power installation has subsidized more than a gigawatt's worth of solar panels since 2007.
A report released just before New Years found that many wind turbines' effective lifespans are much shorter than expected. And now a respected British ecologist is slamming the wind industry, saying that wind power is "devastating populations of rare b...
Bike rentals may become a thing of the past at Yosemite National Park, as the Park Service works on significant changes to the visitor experience.
A solar trade reporter's weird rant about Mexican technology misses the point.
The nation's chief wildlife protection agency is opposing a new solar project in the Ivanpah Valley just outside the California state line, saying the project as currently designed would harm the valley's beleaguered tortoise population.
If the Mojave Desert gets some rain in the next six weeks, then we might just see one of the desert's least-understood phenomena take place, as Joshua trees work to create a new generation of themselves.