Around Telluride

"Recycling Rules" is a workshop for homeowners and renters in the Town of Telluride presented by Telluride's Ecology Commission. The event takes place today, Wednesday, in the Program Room of the five-star Wilkinson Public Library, 100 East Pacific Avenue.The program unfolds as follows:6 p.m., Introduction6:10...

May marks the end of the spring off-season and the beginning of yet another calendar-filled summer season. Please take note of the transportation changes that will occur at the end of the month. Moreover, the opening of the gondola signifies the official opening of Mountain Village's various hiking and biking trails. To review all the recreational opportunities the town offers and their associated trail maps, please refer to the Mountain Village web site.

The Telluride AIDS Benefit (TAB) is pleased to announce that it will give over $100,000 to five HIV/AIDS charities in Colorado and Africa. TAB will distribute the funds to the Western Colorado AIDS Project, Denver Children’s Hospital Immunodeficiency Program, Brother Jeff’s Community...

Tuesday, May 11, 10 a.m, Tech Lab.: Webinar

"Making Ecological Intelligence a Competitive Advantage" with Daniel Goleman. 

Daniel Goleman lectures frequently to business audiences, professional groups and on college campuses. A psychologist who for many years reported on the brain and behavioral sciences for The New York Times, Dr. Goleman previously was a visiting faculty member at Harvard.

Goleman was a co-founder of the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning at the Yale University Child Studies Center (now at the University of Illinois at Chicago), and is co-chairman of The Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations, based in the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers University. The Consortium seeks to catalyze research on best practices for developing emotional competence, and the impact of emotional intelligence in leadership and organizations.

by Art Goodtimes

IMG_5178 I threw a hissy fit in Norwood last week. At our regular meeting of the San Miguel County Board of Commissioners.

It’s something that’s bugged me for years.

My poor colleagues and staff had to put up with my ranting on and on over contested word choice in a county document that I, as chair this year, was going to have to sign my name to. Ridiculous? You decide…

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Matthew, with makeup,
out of costume

Telluride Inside... and Out is in Bellevue, Washington, strategising and getting technical issues solved. Daughter Kimm Viebrock is listed as "head geek" on our organization list, so TIO has spent the better part of the past week with faces buried in our computers. We have been working hard during the days, but there has also been time to enjoy family.

Grandson Matthew Nesteroff had a busy weekend: it began with a jazz band contest on Friday morning. Matthew is in the trumpet section of the Chinook Middle School band, and this was our first chance to hear him play in concert. We enjoyed the opportunity, and the band sounded great. For Matthew, that was just the beginning. In addition he was an "Evil Eel" in the Bellevue Youth Theatre production of "The Little Mermaid." We went Friday evening, and once again were proud of our boy's artistic abilities. The cast played to full houses for three more performances: a matinee and an evening show on Saturday, and a matinee on Sunday.

Telluride's Ah Haa School for the Arts's Visiting Artists program, one of the many gems in the wide-ranging curriculum, is a magnet, drawing students to town from all over the country as well as locals.Ceramicist Diana Fayt teaches "Nature on the Surface," June 4...

[click "Play" to listen to Susan's conversation with Gunter Pauli]

 

Gunter 9.2007-3 Kris Holstrom of Telluride's The New Community Coalition welcomes her colleague Gunter Pauli, founder of ZERI – Zero Emissions Research Initiatives  –  to town today, May 4, for an informal chat with anyone interested in saving the planet, while putting bread on the table. (ed. note: Pauli will be at Wilkinson Public Library at 7:45 pm) If you are unable to attend the local program, on Wednesday, May 5, Pauli is in Durango, where he speaks at SKA Brewing, 225 Girard Street, 7 – 9 p.m.
Pauli has written several books and a series of "fables" designed to convey complex notions in plainspeak. His newest book, "The Blue Economy: 10 years, 100 innovations 100 million jobs" is an example.