Sus and I have done it again: Just over eleven years ago, we arrived at her parents' new apartment in Hackensack, NJ, to help them move in. On September 10. Now we have just returned from a two-week trip to Europe with the idea of spending...
[caption id="attachment_24780" align="alignleft" width="300"] Sandy, NASA Earth Observatory[/caption] Any environmental blog this week has to talk about the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy. I’m going to write about ecosystem restoration. The two issues are, in fact, closely related. What does restoration have to do with hurricanes? Quite...
Last Friday, Sophia Cinnamon, our VISTA student, and I were pleased to join nearly 40 others in Montrose for the Farm to Cafeteria Conference put on by Carol Parker and the Valley Food Partnership. Elaine Brett of Slow Food Western Slope started us off with...
The iconic Bob Dylan song, “'The Times They Are A-Changin,’” touches upon the universal truth that change is constant. As humanity moves forward into the 21st century, we need to evolve (adapt) our way of life in order to reduce the risk of vulnerability, build...
What organism, along with its associated ‘community’ can process its own weight in waste each day – without special equipment, costly buildings and a degree in chemistry? Hints: a pound of them would contain about 1000 individuals, they like the dark, and they’ll be featured...
As of 2011, 192 out of 198 countries worldwide have ratified the international Kyoto Protocol and taken significant steps towards reducing human-induced greenhouse gas emissions that have caused the most rapid rate of global warming in the last 120,000 years. The only countries that have...
This week, I attended the Land Trust Alliance’s annual Rally to moderate a panel on ecosystem based management, ocean use planning, and conservation. While there, I got the chance to see several other presentations, including one about an impressive program in Puerto Rico, where a...
[caption id="attachment_23697" align="alignleft" width="224"] Trad Cotter[/caption] Trad and Olga Cotter were in Telluride in August for Shroomfest, touting among other things the three mushroom infusion we tasted brewed into Smuggler Joe's Red Ale. The Cotters own and operate Mushroom Mountain, part farm, part research facility located...
October EcoAction Roundtable (EAR) investigates the New Financial Frontier of Crowdfunding We are pleased to have Anthony Edwards – our neighbor from Silverton – coming over the hill on Friday, October 12, to give us an update on how crowdfunding can help revitalize our communities....
[caption id="attachment_23410" align="alignright" width="262"] Effects of insect attack[/caption] As Telluride’s old-timers gather for a 40th anniversary celebration this weekend, my middle-aged mind drifted back to glory days of Colorado in the 1970s, when the Rocky Mountains were densely populated with healthy stands of aspen, pine, and...
