The Regional Sustainability Visioning Project is a new initiative spearheaded by The Telluride region’s The New Community Coalition (TNCC) and a call to arms for our extended community. RSVP kicks off tomorrow, January 13, at 6 p.m. at the Mountain Village Council Meeting Room.The community...
[click to hear Elisabeth Gick on Tibet]
Elisabeth Gick first came to Telluride in September of 1979, like so many of us, an "accidental tourist.”
“The beauty of the valley sucked me right in and has not let go yet.”
Gick’s children, now adults, went through school here, and she started a very satisfying landscaping business, Outer Spaces, while also becoming deeply involved in a number of non-profits, including Mountainfilm and the Out Loud lecture series.
“I consider myself incredibly lucky to be living here.”
A few years ago, Elisabeth caught the travel bug, visiting interested Nepal in 1999, Vietnam and Cambodia in 2002, India for three months in 2005, India again for three months in 2006-2007.
In October 2008, Telluride local Elisabeth Gick and daughter Leslie were spending one last afternoon in the town of Ganzi in upper Kham, eastern Tibet, enjoying the sunshine after many snowy, cold days, when they spotted a sign over a door that read “Tibetan Hospital.” A young man spotted the two women and asked in fluent English if he could help.
Then magic unfolded.
The young man, whose name is Lobsang, explained that the abbot of Ganzi nunnery was in charge of the hospital as well as an orphanage for girls. He took Elisabeth and Lesley to meet the man, who was 75 and dressed from head to toe in leather, not red robes.
Solar at High/Middle School
David de Rothschild has nothing on The New Community Coalition, at the forefront of the Telluride region's sustainable initiatives.
If your concern is carbon footprints on your spotless floors, in de Rothschild's "The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook," the author lists 77 ways to reduce that impact. The New Community Coalition has figured 121 ways to make 2009 a greater, greener year.
In case you missed it, you can also see Little Ways 1-46. Going Green can be easy!
January 8 to 15, 2009
Visible Planets:
Morning: Saturn
Evening: Venus and Jupiter
Several astrological events of note take place this week:
1. The year’s first “super-moon” – which is a lunation that takes place when the Moon is both at perigee (its closest approach to Earth) and syzygy (in direct alignment with the Sun and Earth) – occurs on Jan. 10th at 8:27 p.m. MST and will come to fruition @ 22 degrees in the Capricorn/Cancer polarity.
As with all Full Moons, expect to experience illumination in fields of darkness. This month, look for enlightenment regarding physical, material realities and the identification of sacrifices and resources necessary to achieve goals and manifest dreams. This is a very karmic Moon, when we see clearly and understand the consequences of our actions and choices. Life is an ongoing process of cause and effect, choose and act wisely.
David de Rothschild has nothing on The New Community Coalition, at the forefront of the Telluride region's sustainable initiatives.
If your concern is carbon footprints on your spotless floors, in de Rothschild's "The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook," the author lists 77 ways to reduce that impact. The New Community Coalition has figured 121 ways to make 2009 a greater, greener year.
This first post lists TNCC's Little Ways 1-46. Watch for 47-121. Going Green can be easy!
The First Thursday Art Walk, sponsored by the Telluride Council for the Arts and Humanities, is a day-long block party with a mission: to showcase Telluride's fine art scene, including galleries and studios, which stay open late until 8 p.m.
The event is meant to deepen ties between Telluride's business and cultural economies by exposing locals and visitors to emerging and established arts and the town's retail scene.
The 2009 kickoff is Thursday, January 8, with many venues hosting their own artists' receptions, 5 – 8 p.m.
Among them:
In 2005. the Telluride Council for the Arts and Humanities opened the Stronghouse Studios (283 S. Fir Street), a cooperative created to provide an affordable, dynamic environment in which local visual, literary, textile, and musical artists can create and interact. Tonight, the Stronghouse Studios...
Lustre (171 South Pine), an artisan gallery, regularly showcases a distinctive collection of hand-crafted collectibles for the home and wearable art for the body: from brightly colored chandeliers and furniture made of exotic woods and inlays to the jewelry of artists such as Aaron...
The Telluride region's The New Community Coalition evolved in 2007 at a time when green is the new black, when sprout heads and tree huggers are no longer the lunatic fringe, when only the lunatic fringe is questioning climate change, when new jobs are literally...
