desert conservation

A video showing the reality behind the Sunrise Powerlink. Crank up The Who's "We Don't Get Fooled Again" as you watch. Get the truth at www.sdsmartenergy.org, or any of the other websites listed at the end.

Like their neighbors in Carmel Valley, Rancho Penasquitos is also concerned about the destructive, anti-green, and unnecessary Sunrise Powerlink.

It's not just Imperial County desert, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, and San Diego's rural communities that will be degraded by the Sunrise Powerlink -- as if that weren't bad enough -- but San Diego's suburban neighborhoods and precious urban open spaces as well. The Sunrise Powerlink is destructive, anti-green, and unnecessary. Don't buy SDG&E's greenwashing campaign.

An article published online by the Center for Biological Diversity, full of details on why the Sunrise Powerlink isn't the clean, green, renewable-energy-delivering machine SDG&E makes it out to be.

A coalition of communities united to promote better alternatives to the destructive, anti-green, and unnecessary Sunrise Powerlink.

A page on the website of the Anza-Borrego Foundation & Institute about how the destructive, anti-green, and unnecessary Sunrise Powerlink would affect Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Surf from there to pages about programs in the park, classes for adults and children, and this spring's widlflower bloom.

One of the first websites devoted exclusively to stopping the destructive, anti-green, and unnecessary Sunrise Powerlink.

The website of the Protect Our Communities Fund, one of the groups fighting to stave off the destructive, unnecessary, and anti-green Sunrise Powerlink. The group is centered around Santa Ysabel, Ranchita, Julian, Mesa Grande, and other communities in San Diego's backcountry.

A slideshow video from a San Diego activist showing some of the public lands and National Forests that would be destroyed by one routing of the proposed Sunrise Powerlink (the other route goes through Anza-Borrego Desert State Park). The text is a little hard to read, but the photos are beautiful. For more complete info on the Sunrise Powerlink, go to www.sdsmartenergy.org.

A post about Southern California Edison's massive investment in solar photovoltaics on commercial rooftops, a much better way to meet California's renewable portfolio standard than SDG&E's Sunrise Powerlink.