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"In this 50-question activity, you will determine the best locations to site a wind energy farm in Colorado. You will use GIS as your primary investigative tool and use spatial analysis techniques to consider the best site. You will consider highways, wind speed, cities, size of polygon, contiguity, elevation, federal land, and will perform a number of geoprocessing functions including dissolve, intersect, erase, join, and more to arrive at your conclusion. "

"virtual data repository", providing a gateway to information from a variety of data centers and web sites, including those of federal and state governments, academia, private industry, and wind energy-related trade associations. The tools and interfaces on this site have been designed to facilitate the discovery, visualization, subsetting, and downloading of this information.

"Wind, water and solar technologies can provide 100 percent of the world's energy, eliminating all fossil fuels. Here's how"

Onion video spoof: "Panelists debate whether the U.S. is doing enough to heed the warnings of coal industry scientists who say turbines could blow the Earth right into the sun."

"even with high-range estimates for renewables compared to low-range estimates for fossil fuels, fossil fuels are responsible for far more bird fatalities than solar or wind"

Deciding where to install wind turbines and solar panels seems straightforward: Pick gusty and sunny spots. But researchers say the problem is a bit more complicated. To get the most emissions reductions and health benefits, the United States may need to focus its clean energy efforts on some unlikely regions.

"Birds instinct to migrate is often influenced by sudden shifts in temperature, amount of available daylight, moon phases and when strong tail winds are present. Like air quality, pollen count and UV reports, the FLAP Tracker is a Bird Migration Intensity report that alerts you to the concentration of birds as they fly through your region. "

This is a set of GIS lessons from IAGT.

"In this activity, undergraduate students use Google Earth to investigate a variety of renewable energy sources and select sites within the United States that would be appropriate for projects based on those sources. These sources include solar energy, bioenergy, hydroelectricity, tidal power, wind energy, wave energy, and geothermal energy."

inquiry-based curriculum resources about wind energy, including potential impacts on wildlife

Includes some great species-specific migration and tracker maps, + Esri's wind map and others related to wildlife and natural resources

"Sustainable Information and Resources Network Fostering pervasive geosocial environmental networking "