Author: Susan Viebrock

Start planning your 2018 Mountainfilm Festival happening over Memorial Weekend in Telluride. The schedule includes times and venues for films, presentations, the Moving Mountains Symposium, parties, town talks, book-signings, special events and more. Click on the FULL SCHEDULE HERE and look for the uplifting story of "Soufra." Scroll down to listen to...

The Telluride Institute's summer series, "Valley Floor Living Classroom," returns in 2018 and is designed to introduce participants to some of Telluride’s most outstanding natural assets and provide an opportunity to engage in firsthand science related to water quality and aquatic life, ancient fens, and...

Start planning your 2018 Mountainfilm Festival, happening over Memorial Weekend in Telluride. The schedule includes times and venues for films, presentations, the Moving Mountains Symposium, parties, town talks, book-signings, special events and more. Click on the FULL SCHEDULE HERE and look for "The Interpreters." Scroll down to listen to my interview with...

The Telluride Literary Arts Festival or Lit Fest, takes place in town Friday, May 18 – Sunday, May 20. The featured author is Craig Childs, who is scheduled to speak on Sunday, May 20, 7 p.m., at Telluride's Wilkinson Public Library. The subject is his...

Start planning your 2018 Mountainfilm Festival happening over Memorial Weekend in Telluride The schedule includes times and venues for films, presentations, the Moving Mountains Symposium, parties, town talks, book-signings, special events and more. Click on the FULL SCHEDULE HERE. Go to FESTIVAL ON A BUDGET  for all...

Mountainfilm takes place in Telluride over Memorial Weekend, May 25 – May 28. Passes to the 2018 festival are nearly sold out. To get your passes or for more information about Mountainfilm, visit here. Telluride author Susan Dalton captures Mountainfilm's best memories in “Mountainfilm: 40 Years.” The beautiful coffee...

Rosemerry Trommer and Art Goodtimes, co-directors of the Telluride Institute's Talking Gourds program, announce the winners of Fischer Prize and Cantor Prize, chosen by judge Joan Logghe of New Mexico and featured at the Telluride Literary Arts Festival. (Go here for more on Lit Fest...

Telluride-based EcoAction Partners announces its annual Spring Clean Up program for electronics in partnership with San Miguel County and the Town of Telluride. Note: EcoAction's Ophir Composting Show-and-Tell takes place Tuesday, May 15, 10:30 a.m. More information about that initiative, go here. Do you have old electronics laying around...

To date, the current resident of 16 Pennsylvania Avenue and his band of merry men, particularly one Scott Pruitt, have gutted the EPA's budget under the guise of fixing budget issues; killed the Paris Climate Agreement, denying climate change; and in general relaxed environmental rules...

Western State Colorado University students in the School of Environment & Sustainability plan a trip to the Himalayas starting May 17. Their goal is to build a mountain partnership and sister city relationship between the towns of Gunnison and Majikali, India. Western students in the...