In Telluride one is likely to see all styles of walking sticks: high tech ones by Leki, a broken branch picked up off the ground, or a fine piece of wood, maybe even laminated slices of hardwood carefully glued, sanded, finished. My stick (though...
by Eileen Burns
Summer is in full swing and so is the CAST Challenge. The Colorado Association of Ski Towns (or CAST) has been holding a plastic bag challenge since March 1st, with more than 30 ski towns participating, including the Summit County towns of Breckenridge, Frisco, Dillon and Silverthorn. The concept behind this friendly competition between ski towns, is to reduce consumption of single-use, disposable shopping bags by using your own shopping bag and to educate the public on the environmental and social costs associated with single-use plastic bags.
Assistant Director, Jen Santry, of High Country Conservation Center (HC3) explains that Summit County has been participating in a BYOB (bring you own bag) program for years and when they were invited to participate in the CAST Challenge they eagerly accepted. Summit county has around 30,000 year round residents and up to 100,000 people in the area during the peak ski season. That could add up to a lot of plastic bag consumption, but the programs are working and people are getting more in the habit of bringing their own bags when they shop. "It is not about winning the challenge, although that would be great. These programs help educate the public and effect change," explains Santry. HC3 provides programs, services, and advocacy in the areas of waste reduction, energy conservation, green building, and even climate change.
[click "Play" to hear Eileen's conversation with Emma Hill Telluride's Sheridan Opera House will host rising folk star Emma Hill and her Gentleman Callers tonight, Saturday July 18th at at 7pm. Hill was born in a small Alaskan village with virtually no cultural influences. For...
[click "Play" to hear Ted Hoff's thoughts on neutering your dog] Men tend to identify with Lawrence of Arabia and cup their tender bits protectively when the subject comes up. As part of an ongoing series, this week, Telluride Inside...
Meredith Nemirov is among the more than 100 artists featured in the silent auction at Telluride's Ah Haa School for the Arts' 17th annual fundraiser, Friday, July 24, 5 p.m., 300 South Townsend. Meredith Nemirov has inspired Ah Haa students for years, teaching them...
There are people whose absence is difficult or impossible to imagine. I have known Jack Carey most of the time I have been in Telluride. We are not close friends, the kind who can share stories of adventures, dinners together, so I'll leave those...
Telluride's annual Farmers' Market, now in its seventh year, features almost 40 vendors, all of whom come from within a 100-mile radius to bring their sustainably raised fruits, veggies, flowers, meats, fish, crafts and cheeses to town every Friday, 10:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., June – October. The market is the place every weekend for the greater Telluride community to gather and feed a growing appetite for quality food and town talk, the spicier the better.One of the many smiling faces we look forward to seeing each week belongs to Dan James of the James Ranch, located ten miles north of Durango in the Animas River Valley.
[click "Play" to hear Michael Dobbins on urban design and people] Michael Dobbins, long-time Telluride part-time resident, and author of Urban Design and People, will be speaking in the Program Room at the Wilkinson Public Library in Telluride, Monday evening, July 20, at 6:00...
July 16 to 23, 2009
Visible Planets: Morning: Venus, Mars, Jupiter Evening: Saturn
Cosmic Cancer Eclipse Energy: Let Mother Nature Nurture
This week, on July 21st, we experience the celestial event of a New Moon total solar eclipse [it will not be visible in North America] at 29º 26’ Cancer. The recent June 22nd New Moon also took place in Cancer - at 01º 30’ - and the Full Moon lunar eclipse of July 7th came to fruition at 15º 24’ Cancer/Capricorn. That’s a lot of Cancer/Capricorn action and reaction, motion and emotion!
Two consecutive New Moons in the same sign is highly significant, and because these two lunations bracket a lunar eclipse and one of them is a New Moon total solar eclipse, it represents a mega-message for the collective regarding the themes and issues of the sign involved. It's as if the cosmos blasts energy and information via experiences, events and circumstance to the people here on Planet Earth.
[click "Play" to hear Kristin's take on white jeans for Summer] This week, Telluride Inside...
