*Donate now to support Bold Nebraska’s work building clean and local energy* The “Harvest the Hope” benefit concert in September 2014 saw more than 8,500 people converge on a farmer’s corn field near Neligh, Nebraska to see legends Neil Young and Willie Nelson along with Frank Waln, Lukas Nelson and local artists all speaking out to protect […]

Energy Barn Update For the month of November, the New Energy Barn in the path of the Keystone Export pipeline produced 244 kilowatt-hours of electricity for Nebraska’s public power grid.  That’s enough energy to charge the average cell phone for 7.6 years.  As of December 1, the Energy Barn has produced 3.87 megawatts of electricity, […]

Landowner-members of the Nebraska Easement Action Team (N.E.A.T.) are invited to a discussion in January about the TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline. The Domina Law Group will be present along with Jane Kleeb of Bold Nebraska to answer any questions about where the federal process stands. Meetings will be held in O’Neill (Jan 9) and York […]

Bold Nebraska is proud to be among the sponsors of the Nebraska Sustainable Agriculture Society’s 2015 Producers Choice Chef Award. Since 2013, farmer and rancher members of the NSAS each year nominate a group of the local chefs they work with who best represent the sustainable food system message that NSAS strives to promote. This […]

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  Pres. Barack Obama just laid down some straight talk about Keystone XL during his end-of-year press conference. “There is very little impact, nominal impact, on US gas prices — what the average American consumer cares about — by having this pipeline come through. And sometimes the way this gets sold is, let’s get this […]

Lincoln, Nebraska Mayor Chris Beutler and Lincoln Electric System (LES), the publicly-owned utility that serves the greater Lincoln area, announced on Dec. 19 that LES has finalized agreements to add 173 megawatts of wind energy and 5 megawatts of solar — which will bring its portfolio to 48% renewable energy in 2016. The move will […]

A memo delivered to the Obama Administration this week from local Nebraska and national groups details new evidence that proves that the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline would be a major driver of increased development of dirty tar sands and the associated carbon emissions, thereby failing the “climate test” the president has set for […]

Our friends at 350.org are hosting a video chat on Thursday December 18th at 7:00 p.m. Central Time (8 PM Eastern, 5 Pacific) to talk about the plan to stop Keystone XL, now. To join the video chat, go to this page and press play on the video player that will be there, when the […]

With a decision from the Nebraska Supreme Court on the Thompson v. Heineman Keystone XL case at this point expected to come on any upcoming Friday, the day of the week when the court publishes new decisions — we need you to be on call and at the ready to join us at the Capitol in Lincoln. […]