Hybrid Living

ZapRoot keeps surprising me. While sometimes there's a bit too much fluff for me to paddle through, other times the bust out with some of the most hard-hitting (though easy-on-the-eyes) eco-journalism on the web.

Sometimes a bit too hard hitting.

This weeks episode, for example, takes aim at T. Boone Pickens, the Texas oil man with an eye for wind (and, as it turns out, water.) Give Jessica a couple minutes of your time and she'll have you convinced that Boone's wind farm is the devil's work.

Now, I'm not a big fan of draining the Ogllala Aquifer so Dallas can water its lawns for another ten years, but there are a lot of more evil ways to get rights for a water pipeline than by building a the world's largest wind farm.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that if we could have the wind farm without the water pipeline, that would be better. But just because the water pipeline is part of the deal doesn't mean we should nix the biggest renewable energy project in the history of the world.