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...
Black Hills Energy is teaming up with Energy Outreach Colorado to add more benefits to the SMPA IQ Weatherization Program. This exciting new change means more services and bigger rebates available to Black Hills customers who qualify for the SMPA Income Qualified (IQ) Weatherization Program. Now, program participants may...
Telluride-based EcoAction Partners announces a State of Colorado Resource Recycling Economic Opportunity Grant for composting equipment for the Town of Ophir. This is the first of several neighborhood composting centers that will make up a Regional Composting Network, an EcoAction Partners program that aims to...
If one of your New Year's Resolutions is to take action where you can to make a difference, writing for EcoWatch, Cassie Kelly outlines "10 Ways to Be a better Environmental Steward in 2018." Protecting the natural environment may seem overwhelming with increased natural disasters, melting sea...
If the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is, urr, pressing your buttons, you might be up for some good news. Rachel Cleetus, the lead economist and climate policy manager with the Climate and Energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, is guardedly optimistic about...
