[caption id="attachment_31265" align="alignleft" width="277"] Qalito Island, Fiji[/caption] “Malama i ke kai, a malama ke kai ia oe.” The translation of that centuries-old olelo noeau (Hawaiian proverb) is this: “Care for the ocean and the ocean will care for you.” Hawaiians believe it is their cultural kuleana (responsibility) to...
[caption id="attachment_31284" align="alignright" width="200"] Sawyer[/caption] Second Chance Humane Society has been invited to participate in the "No Barriers Summit" coming to Telluride August 8-11. The Summit is designed to “bring together a community of participants who embrace their barriers and learn to harness them for their own...
Visit new crowd-sourcing website now to fill out survey that will help shape healthcare in the Telluride region [caption id="attachment_31231" align="alignright" width="300"] Blue Lakes hiker[/caption] The Telluride Health and Wellness Initiative recently announced the launch of its new public engagement website, www.telluridehealthideas.org. The highly interactive, crowd-sourcing site...
Telluride Grown is on Town Council's agenda, 11:00 a.m., Tuesday, June 4. Come and support the initiative. [caption id="attachment_30631" align="alignright" width="300"] Telluride Grown, led by Telluride's own Kris Holstrom and Steve Cieciuch, is a plan to bring an aquaponics-powered greenhouse to Telluride.[/caption] By now you’ve read Susan...
[caption id="attachment_31041" align="alignright" width="300"] PETUNIA[/caption] Editor’s note: It’s no secret. The Telluride region is dog heaven. Unless you are one of our furry friends who gets caught in the maw of neglect and abuse. Then heaven is on hold until Second Chance Humane Society comes to...
Anyone interested in observing the movement of our visible planets against the backdrop of the starry night sky should take note of the unusual dance of Mercury, Venus and Jupiter over the next few evenings above the western horizon in twilight. I'm posting a few graphic...
I was on my mountain bike, speeding down a trail. My mind should have been sinuous singletrack before me. Instead, I found myself focusing on the harder sections of trail up ahead. Would I be able to stay on my bike for all of those...
[caption id="attachment_30855" align="alignright" width="300"] Hawaiian 'Amakihi[/caption] Riding a warm tropical Pacific breeze and guided by the billowing cumulus clouds towering above the lofty 13,796-foot summit of Mauna Kea, forest birds arrived on the island of Hawai’i to discover a natural paradise of habitat diversity. Subsequently, the...
