The Telluride Bluegrass Festival is about to go just a little bit greener. The Pinhead Climate Institute (PCI) is pleased to announce a bulk sale of Colorado-based agricultural carbon offsets to Planet Bluegrass that will neutralize a significant portion of the carbon emissions generated when...
The mission of The Nature Conservancy is to protect the lands and waters on which all life depends. Since 1965, the nonprofit has been working in Colorado to help to protect 1 million acres and improve 1,000 river miles across the state. Protection starts with understanding what’s out there. To...
Telluride’s EcoAction Partners is pleased to announce another year of GREENLIGHTS, a rebate program sponsored by San Miguel Power Association (SMPA) and supported by the Telluride Foundation and participating governments – Ouray and San Miguel Counties, and the towns of Telluride, Ridgway, Ouray, and Mountain Village – and EcoAction. The program allows residents and...
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...
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...
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...
Sunday is Earth Day, 24-hours to take a step back, stop the glooming and dooming because of, say, the drought in the Southwest, and think about ways to make changes in our lives that make a positive difference around the issue of climate change. Small...
Sometime accidents are good things. As in the case of a recent discovery by researchers in the U.S. and UK. We curated this story from EcoWatch. Finally a happy headline – a solution, or perhaps just a partial solution, for a global challenge: plastic pollution....
Missed the white flakes falling from the sky this winter? You could rail against Ullr, the Snow God – or you could support a lawsuit. According to a blog by senior writer Elliott Negin of the the Union of Concerned Scientists, if you are a San...
One of the consequences of a warming planet is forced migration, with unprecedented impacts on lives and livelihoods due to the scale of such flows. Migration is the theme of the 40th annual Mountainfilm, happening in Telluride, May 25 – May 28. Climate change is...
