[caption id="attachment_28958" align="alignright" width="238"] Aquaponics cycle[/caption] We know that the cities are now home to more of us than the country. We know that water issues, particularly here in the West will define much of our future. We know that the current carbon footprint of our...
March 14 to 21, 2013 Visible Planets: Morning: Venus, Saturn Evening: Mercury, Jupiter Springtime guarantees warmer days and nights, emerging greens and, for those of us here in southwest Colorado, the arrival of the azure-blue western mountain bluebirds. I love being on the front side of...
[caption id="attachment_28788" align="alignright" width="300"] Lettuces, credit http://yearroundharvest.com/tag/organic-gardening/[/caption] In Telluride, it’s still snowy (hurrah!), but here in Washington, DC, it’s starting to feel like spring. The witch hazel is flowering, with its invigorating, refreshing smell, and crocuses and daffodils are starting to brighten the ground with brilliant...
[caption id="attachment_28707" align="alignright" width="112"] Piasecki Shower: Truth: The average shower head uses 2.5 gallons of water per minute. Dare: Chris Piasecki takes showers in 5 minutes or less.[/caption] EcoAction Partners invites you to join us in celebrating our 48 Truth or Dare participants and the daring...
[caption id="attachment_28634" align="alignright" width="259"] Mars probe[/caption] Time travel, a popular topic of science fiction, has taken one step closer to reality. I am not talking about humans traveling “Back to the Future” as depicted by Hollywood, but rather the use of cutting edge scientific research in...
A juicy March storm is on the way so enjoy a very warm, partly sunny Wednesday because there is increasing high cloudiness today and tomorrow as the ridge of high pressure moves east pushed by a fairly large closed-low presently spinning off the Washington/Oregon coast. This...
To regions like Telluride, snow pack is more than a ski slope. The snow pack that develops here provides water throughout the summer and fall, supporting our abundant mountain ecosystems. As our climate changes and storm cycles are altered, so is the snowpack we rely...
[caption id="attachment_28335" align="alignright" width="283"] Fracking Process[/caption] On June 22 of 1969, the Cuyahoga River in Northeast Ohio caught fire due to the indiscriminate dumping of industrial chemicals and sewage into the river. Sadly, this event was not unique during the early- and mid-20th century industrialization of...
Our four days of storms end today as the 4-corners closed low dives southeast into New Mexico to disrupt the front range of Colorado with upslope conditions and the plains states with high winds, snow and a little chaos. The San Juans will have clearing...
This month, responding to campus activists who have been working on the issue for over a year, Vanderbilt University divested from “land grabbing,” withdrawing a $26 million investment in EMVest, a company that has been buying agricultural properties in Africa and converting them into large-scale...
