Post by Manny Becerra

Trust is its own kind of infrastructure, the kind you can't pour or permit, only earn. After years in industry, on the dais, and many months bringing officials, researchers, conservationists, educators, business voices, residents, and community partners onto the same ground at Redwood Materials' Tahoe-Reno campus, this is the line I keep coming back to. A field report from inside the cross-sector stakeholder tours, on what it takes to get Nevada's high-energy-load moment right, who's been in the room, or open space, rather, and where the honest conversation seems to be heading. With deep gratitude to every participant and to Tricia, Adam, Don, and the entire Redwood team for keeping the collaboration doors open. Have a read, share what resonates, and come trek the back 40 with us, there's still room.