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...
[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...
EcoAction Partners is collaborating with Telluride Grown to help create two aquaponic demonstration units in time for this year's Mountainfilm in Telluride. The theme of this year's event is Climate Solutions - and we believe building robust local food systems is one important – and...
Editor's note: Any article by scientist Billy Mason is worth reading, but this blog is particularly timely. Over Memorial weekend, starting Friday, May 24, Mountainfilm in Telluride will focus on Climate Solutions," starting with Friday's Moving Mountains Symposium: "We are assembling an all-star lineup of scientists,...
Enter to win 2013 Festival Passes by filling out this quick survey! The mission of EcoAction Partners is to inspire, initiate and support collaborative community actions that enhance resilient economic, environmental and social systems. We want to hear what you, our community, see as priorities for...
[caption id="attachment_30169" align="alignright" width="263"] Eco-city Tianjin in China[/caption] As self-serving politicians funded by the fossil fuel industry inhibit progress in America, Asian countries are quickly moving towards reducing risk, building resilience, and creating new economic opportunities by abandoning the business-as-usual approach in favor of going green. By...
An Hour Given = An Hour Earned Timebanking and Community Resilience, May 3, 8:30 A.M., Wilkinson Public Library Program Room Time Bank of the Rockies is up and running, and we are delighted to bring Cynthia Harwood to the EcoAction Roundtable to present information and help...
[caption id="attachment_30130" align="alignright" width="300"] Slow Money, local chapter leaders[/caption] I do believe too many energies get trapped in our little box canyon over the course of the winter. Spring break seems to flush the system. With lots of people leaving for a time, things are calmer...
Thirteen years after AquaBounty first applied for approval of its genetically engineered (GE) AquAdvantage salmon, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is poised to finalize its environmental assessment (EA) with a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) and approve the application. Friday was...
Training on Net Zero Homes comes to Telluride Friday, May 10 (and Durango Thursday, May 9) The Colorado Green Building Guild, a trade organization focused on advancing the craft of sustainable building in Colorado, announces a new partnership with the Department of Energy to provide dynamic...
