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July 2011

[click "Play" for Susanna's conversation with Susan]

 

Celebrity chef Susanna Hoffman, "Adventures in Greek Cooking"
 
Books&cooks_AUGUST Disasters in the kitchen? A regular happening in homes from coast to coast. But "disasters" and "kitchen" combine perfectly, with no muss or fuss, in the life of Telluride local anthropologist and cookbook author, Dr. Susanna Hoffman.
 
Susanna, a University of California (Berkeley) PhD, regularly consults worldwide on disaster issues. Her latest book on that subject is Catastrophe & Culture.
 
But on Tuesday, August 2, noon, Susanna trades her hard hat for her tocque for a special segment of Chefbud's Books & Cooks at Telluride's five-star Wilkinson Public Library. The menu: Grape leaf, Feta and Cream Cheese dip with Pita Chips, Mushroom and Retsina Wine Filo Pie and Yogurt Cake with Lemon Ouzo Syrup.
 

31 July, 2011 /

by David FeelaA compressor would be the quickest,though the scaffolding requiredto touch the ceilingmight make the Tower of Babellook like a stairwell.Give me one politicianwith the vision of Michelangeloand I will lie on my backthrough the next election depicting a brilliant fresco of the future.Or...

31 July, 2011 /

By Ben Williams

Ford_ka I’m back in the UK for my sister’s wedding, and although it’s only been three years since my last visit,there are many signs that things here are moving into the 21st Century.

On a trip to visit my Grandma we were driving through a small village called Crick, and there in the fields were two immense 2 MW wind turbines ponderously circling.  Everywhere small 70-miles-to-the-gallon cars bustle about the narrow streets.  On top of a block of flats in Leamington Spa, two pairs of 300 KW wind turbines spin rapidly away.

31 July, 2011 /



Tim DeChristopher, Mountainfilm
Tim at Telluride Mountainfilm

On July 28, Telluride Inside... and Out received the following note from Telluride local, filmmaker Beth Gage, who with husband George, is making a documentary, "Bidder 70," about environmental activist Tim DeChristopher. Tim, a Mountainfilm regular over the past three years, recently received his sentence for his act of nonviolent civil disobedience.

"Dear Susan,

You may have heard but Tim got a 2 year sentence and was whisked out of court and into a prison van in chains within minutes of his sentence.  I thought you might like to re-print Terry T Williams letter to the editor.

Hugs,
Beth"

30 July, 2011 /

Yes, it's true. Telluride Inside...and Out wholeheartedly supports the Telluride Adaptive Sports Program. With us it is strictly personal: my husband Clint has been an Adaptive instructor for 12 years and counting. For him the work is soul food. But helping others with special challenges is important work no matter where in the country it is going on.

In the state of Colorado, Steamboat Springs also has an active adaptive program, Steamboat Adaptive Recreational Sports, a chapter of Disabled Sports USA and a US Paralympic Sportclub.

30 July, 2011 /

Water, water everywhere – and I drank plenty.

3 Musketeers On Friday, Clint and I decided to take a half day off from Telluride Inside... and Out. He headed off to assist on a Telluride Adaptive Sports Program hike with a favorite client. My fact-finding mission was mostly play: What's all the fuss about the river sport du jour, Stand-Up Paddling?

Bettie Hastings picked me up bright and early in her Mini convertible and we headed to town to rendezvous with our friend Susan Dalton at Jagged Edge. In summer, Jagged Edge is central ops for the Telluride Kayak School, where we hooked up with our instructor Andy Bagnall. On a cloudy day, order up Andy. I mean the guy is sunshine incarnate. He radiates nothing but positive energy juju.

30 July, 2011 /

By Kris Holstrom

Permaculture Rocks!

“It was definitely a life-changing experience for me!”

“Intense and challenging, but so worthwhile.”

“I’ll never see things the same way again.”

Those are just a few of the comments from students during the two-week intensive Permaculture Design Course (PDC) recently completed at SWIRL’s (Southwest Institute for Resilience) Tomten Farm Project near Placerville. Part of the University Centers of the San Miguel’s Summer College series, the PDC found 13 students studying systems and connections in everything from growing plants in guilds and tribes to renewable energy to harvesting water off roofs and in the landscape. Teachers included Biodynamic grower Pat Frazier from Peace & Plenty Farm near Hotchkiss; Wind Clearwater of The Oasis, also near Hotchkiss; Daniel Aragon from SWIRL; Kris Holstrom from Tomten Farm, SWIRL and TNCC; and Robyn Wilson, Executive Director of UCSM.

30 July, 2011 /
[click "Play" to listen to the conversation with Doctors Kerr and Hauswald]

 

Kerr:Hauswald Telluride Inside... and Out is alerted to stories in a variety of ways. The most obvious is a heads up in the form of a press release from any one of the non-profits or special events in the region. But sometimes a person just calls with his or her hair on fire about something or someone, an upcoming adventure or noteworthy accomplishment. That is how this post came about.

Our friend Judy Thompson phoned out of the blue one day to brag on two of her friends: Dr. Nancy Kerr and husband, Dr. Mark Hauswald. Judy was super excited because the couple, Telluride locals, had just gotten word about receiving a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

29 July, 2011 /

July 28 to August , 2011     Visible Planets: Morning: Mars and Jupiter  Evening: Saturn

 2012 Mayan End Times: Hubris or Humility?

122-doomsday2012 I’ve been thinking about 2012. It’s loaded, it’s wild, it’s awesome to know that there’s a collective force at work – the collective consciousness of an ancient prophecy coming to fruition - the long awaited Mayan end times.

I remember back to one day in the '90s – before the millennium turn and the predicted chaos of Y2K – when I was driving out of Telluride toward Lawson Hill with one of my editors. We were talking about how time seemed to have speeded up, how it felt as if the pavement beneath us was moving at a velocity much faster than the car traveling upon it. It was a kind of gravity free, out-of-body sensation, like flying through space at warp speed, meteors and galaxies whizzing by.

29 July, 2011 /

[click "Play", Susan is tickled to be speaking with Ashley Deppen]

 

Feather earrings Talk about summer fashions and the conversation, according to our fashionista's at Telluride's trendy Two Skirts boutique, inevitably gets light. As light as a feather.

Feathers (and fringe), remnants of the 1960s hippie dippy days, surfaced on runways from Paris to New York for the summer season. Birds of the feather, world famous designers all, used feathers in glam gowns and dresses for subtle, uber feminine details and added texture. Feather looks came in all sizes, colors and styles. Whole looks from designers like Alexander McQueen and Zac Posen harkened back to days when eye-popping confections on the silver screen nearly stole the show. (Think Fred and Ginger or Zeigfeld or any fairy tale.) Other designers, like Two Skirts' Tucker limited themselves to feathers as accents.

28 July, 2011 /