[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...
[caption id="attachment_23188" align="alignright" width="300"] Katie and Anna, by Clean Virginia Waterways[/caption] Saturday morning, I got up early and hopped on my bike to ride from the District down to Daingerfield Island, which is not really an island but is a National Park just south of Washington...
One song really sums up my feelings about the seasons in Telluride. "If Ever I Would Leave You" is a love song, yes, but not just to a queen from her lover. It is a love song to the seasons in the mythical kingdom of...
The mantra remains the same: “Out of sight, out of mind.” Looking up towards the heavens, I see the brilliance of star clustered-galaxies as far as the eye can see. However, what my limited vision does not see would make a grown man cry. If...
[caption id="attachment_23067" align="alignright" width="175"] Solar installation[/caption] EcoAction Partners was pleased with a good turnout at last week’s Action Roundtable featuring Tyler Mize of Alternative Power Enterprises AND Chris Binner, Local Realtor. We discussed solar basics and got to see how beautiful and functional a solar-powered green...
Editor’s Note: This is another installment of a weekly series by the team of scholars/dynamic enviro-activists Anna Zivian and Billy Mason. Both have deep ties to Telluride, but have flown the coop to make a difference in the larger world outside Shangri-La. They are. [caption id="attachment_22955"...
[caption id="attachment_22649" align="alignleft" width="300"] Skiing in the future?[/caption] I find it a bit ironic that “climate change deniers” Mitt Romney's and Paul Ryan’s Republican convention in Tampa, Florida, had to be rescheduled because of a tropical storm caused by global warming. Climate change increases the frequency and...
Just couldn't help myself: I took these photographs from our bedroom fifteen minutes ago. I think this is proof positive- at the end of the rainbow you'll find Telluride! Come and see for yourself....
