Skip to main content

Redefine

KCET's award-winning environment news project Redefine ran from July 2012 through February 2017. For ongoing environmental coverage please visit our show Earth Focus, or browse Redefine's archives below for historical material.

Playa Racetrack, Death Valley
Support Provided By
hesperia-west-solar-9-15-13-thumb-600x450-59950
Local opposition may have doomed a proposed 20-acre solar project in Hesperia.
A logging truck in Roseburg, OR.
If more timber is harvested in Oregon, it puts a greater burden on California and other neighboring states.
Power line goes up in Wyomin
A major transmission project now being considered by the BLM and other agencies could bring 3,000 megawatts of power from Wyoming to cities in California, Nevada, and Arizona, removing an obstacle to much greater expansion of wind turbines in Wyoming's...
headstand-beetle-9-13-13-thumb-600x400-59834
I saw it crossing the trail ahead: a low black dot with an air of confidence.
intermountain-power-plant-DWP-9-11-13-thumb-600x416-59704
A coal-fired plant operated by the LADWP is among the nation's 50 dirtiest power plants, according to a report released Tuesday.
ladwp-board-commission
L.A.'s Mayor announced the overhaul of the board last month amid heated talks over a labor contract covering 90 percent of employees at the city-owned utility.
palen-site-9-11-13-thumb-600x344-59717
The proposed solar power plant would have a "substantial adverse impact" on visual resources in Riverside County's Chuckwalla Valley, including the views from vantage points in two protected wildernesses and Joshua Tree National Park, according to a st...
remembering-september-11-differently
Why is it so difficult to remember 9/11?
battery-9-10-13-thumb-600x397-59679
On a cost-effectiveness basis alone, electrical power storage may make a lot more sense for solar energy than it does for wind.
The headqarters for the L.A. Department of Water and Power in downtown L.A.
A Los Angeles City Council committee cleared four mayoral nominees on Monday to join the Board of Water and Power Commissioners.The Energy and Environment…
Screen shot 2013-09-09 at 7.05.09 PM-thumb-600x374-59549
At least 27 golden eagles perished at 13 California wind turbine facilities between 1997 and June 2012, with a startling rise in reported mortalities in 2011. That's not including the eagle killing machines at Altamont Pass.
china-solar-school-9-10-13-thumb-600x424-59616
A new study suggests that low pay for Chinese solar panel workers isn't the reason that solar panel prices have dropped dramatically.
Active loading indicator