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Environment

A global problem with a global solution By 2100, the world’s global energy consumption will amount to over triple its rate in 2001. Currently, fossil fuels (oil, coal, natural gas) supply 85% of this demand, but their supplies are limited, and their combustion is linked to...

29 June, 2013 /

In 1896, Nobel Laureate chemist Svante Arrhenius theorized that carbon dioxide (CO2) derived from fossil fuel combustion induced atmospheric warming. 64 years later Dr. Charles David Keeling proved that the concentration of CO2, a greenhouse gas (GHG), was increasing in the atmosphere. As a consequence...

21 June, 2013 /

[caption id="attachment_31380" align="alignright" width="212"] Gov. John Hickenlooper[/caption] On June 5, Gov. John Hickenlooper signed SB13-252 “Renewable Energy Standard Retail Wholesale Methane." He also signed an Executive Order related to the legislation and issued a signing statement addressed to the General Assembly. (The Executive Order creates an...

11 June, 2013 /

[caption id="attachment_31265" align="alignleft" width="277"] Qalito Island, Fiji[/caption] “Malama i ke kai, a malama ke kai ia oe.” The translation of that centuries-old olelo noeau (Hawaiian proverb) is this: “Care for the ocean and the ocean will care for you.” Hawaiians believe it is their cultural kuleana (responsibility) to...

07 June, 2013 /

Telluride Grown is on Town Council's agenda, 11:00 a.m., Tuesday, June 4. Come and support the initiative. [caption id="attachment_30631" align="alignright" width="300"] Telluride Grown, led by Telluride's own Kris Holstrom and Steve Cieciuch, is a plan to bring an aquaponics-powered greenhouse to Telluride.[/caption] By now you’ve read Susan...

30 May, 2013 /

[caption id="attachment_30855" align="alignright" width="300"] Hawaiian 'Amakihi[/caption] Riding a warm tropical Pacific breeze and guided by the billowing cumulus clouds towering above the lofty 13,796-foot summit of Mauna Kea, forest birds arrived on the island of Hawai’i to discover a natural paradise of habitat diversity. Subsequently, the...

24 May, 2013 /

Grand opening of the Telluride Growing Dome is 3:30 – 5:30 p.m. today. Stop by to taste the fruits (and vegetables) of everyone's labors. The Growing Dome behind the Telluride High School celebrates its Grand Opening Wednesday, May 22. All are invited to come by after...

21 May, 2013 /

Each time we travel we have a choice. We can be a tourist or a traveler. In my younger life I was always a traveler. I backpacked through South America, teaching English along the way, exchanging room and board for language lessons and trying my...

19 May, 2013 /

[caption id="attachment_30630" align="alignright" width="150"] Bacteria can cause human and animal diseases. However, some bacteria are not harmful at all and are responsible for the production of antibiotics. Still others live symbiotically in the gut of animals (including humans).[/caption] This week has been a time to start...

17 May, 2013 /