[caption id="attachment_25093" align="alignright" width="300"] Aqua Alta in Venice. Credit: Luigi Costantini/A[/caption] I usually leave climate change to my co-columnist, Billy Mason. His expertise in the subject way exceeds mine. But I make an exception for the specific subjects of flooding and sea level rise. Not only...
[caption id="attachment_25081" align="alignright" width="300"] Zephyros Farm, Paonia[/caption] Are agriculture and heritage tourism potential growth industries? On Tuesday, November 13, the historic Wright Opera House in Ouray was the perfect setting for folks from the Colorado Tourism Office (CTO) to gather with local farmers, ranchers, extension agents, and...
The long presidential campaign and the election are behind us. I won't try to predict what will happen, but I know what must happen: as a nation we must get to work on climate change. The deniers have not gone away; just yesterday a writer in...
[caption id="attachment_24938" align="alignright" width="300"] Riff on Rodin's Thinking Man[/caption] Geography is everything. It is the granddaddy of all academia. Geography entails the exploration of the interactions and interrelationships between space, place, and environment. In terms of academic Geography, space represents a location, place symbolizes the cultural significance...
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...
