Editor's note: With Mountainfilm in Telluride fast approaching – the Festival takes place over Memorial Weekend – the preservation of the earth and all things endangered, species, cultures and ideas, becomes an even more compelling notion. Mountainfilm guests don't just pay lip service to the...
Editor's Note: Last week, our regular contributor and friend Jennie Franks (of the Telluride Playwrights Festival) wrote a wonderful tribute to Judge Sharon Shuteran, who died earlier this month while hiking in Mexico. Her untimely death left her family and her extended in Telluride and...
"Plastiki" screens Saturday, May 26, 9.pm. and Sunday, May 27, 12 p.m., Sheridan Opera House In a way, David de Rothschild's "Plastiki," the documentary, is a response to to a Sixties pop phenomenon, another film, "The Graduate." In "The Graduate," Benjamin Braddock, (Dustin Hoffman), a recent college...
Corporations and government do mix. But the result can be a toxic concoction. Quite literally, especially when transactions involve agricultural and food policy. While corporations do bring important information to the table and have a definite role to play in the regulatory process, when corporate representatives...
A few weeks ago, the subject of Fashion Friday was white jeans. We were bold. We overruled old-fashioned etiquette mavens, even grandma, when we gave the green light to sporting white denims before Memorial Weekend. Now with Memorial Day weekend just around the corner, we...
Editor's Note: With only one week to go to Moutainfilm in Telluride, May 25 – May 28, TIO brings our coverage of off-season travel to a close with Emily' story about a trip to Hawaii and a universal treat: shaved ice. Read it and drool. When...
Last Friday’s EcoAction Roundtable (EAR) had attendees buzzing with new ideas while making great connections. The subject was Waste Stream Innovations. Short videos about the Blue Economy and an actual integrated food production project from Chicago called "The Plant" stimulated thinking and ideas flowed. We have...
Bikes are sexy. This is not an opinion; it’s a fact. And, I have evidence to prove it. Once, standing outside a Crested Butte coffee shop, in tight bike clothes with my yellow Labrador puppy, and my bike, a young man saw the trio and immediately...
In the summer of 1982 I was a young mountaineer cutting my teeth on the steep slopes and hard rock of the San Juan Mountains in Colorado. Sitting atop Hesperus Mountain (13,232 ft.), I would gaze southward towards the four corners of New Mexico, Utah,...
It feels like the 1960s all over again. Flower power is one of the trends of the hour. (Along with color blocking, which we discussed in this column – what was it? – a month or so ago and a 1920s elegance shades of Daisy...
