[click "Play" to listen to Sasha Cucciniello's interview with Dr. Kent Gaylord] by Dr. Kent Gaylord Sore throats are one of the most common reasons for coming to the doctor. Sore throats are most commonly caused by a virus, but...
In a manner of speaking, Telluride's Pinhead Institute has sky high ambitions. The non-profit's programs latest program designed to promote science literacy is the upcoming Stargazing Series, ahem, starring astronomers from the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, AZ.
It is clear humans have always observed the sky. The roots of astronomy, the natural science that deals with the study of celestial objects – stars, planets, comets, nebulae, star clusters and galaxies – extend back before written records.
Relationships are everything in the town of Telluride. For better or for worse. The San Miguel Resource Center kicks in when interpersonal dynamics go on the fritz. It is the region's only nonprofit serving victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
Kristin Holbrook, owner of one of Telluride's most popular Main Street boutiques, is a board member of the Resource Center. Last year, she hatched a plan for an unconventional fundraiser for the non-profit: Clutch for the Cause, launches this year on Thursday, July 21, with a cocktail party at Two Skirts, 4 – 7 p.m.
by Kris Holstrom
What's left after the party? Do you leave your trash behind? Do you sort your recycling? Do you pick up after others? TNCC's summer started off doing compost, recycling and trash for Mountainfilm. It was a huge success at reducing trash by avoiding single use items. Trash was reduced more than 80%! Yahoo!
Efforts to reduce waste and increase the amounts diverted to recycling and compost were incredibly successful - up 8 to 15% over last year, which was better even than the year before. KOTO DooDah, 4th of July - yes yes yes. TNCC even had someone coming to visit our region who called to ask where they could bring their compost. We had her bring it to Tomten Farm's booth at the Farmers Market so we could take it home.
To me that is true dedication - following through on your composting commitment even while on vacation! Thank you!
[click "Play", Susan talks with Nicole Finger and Robert Weatherford]
Event kicks off with Intimate Live Auction Thursday, 7/21. Main event is Friday, 7/22
The auction is Telluride's Ah Haa School for the Arts' biggest and most important fundraising event of the year. Proceeds go towards supporting the school's operation, especially programming and workshops. The theme of the 2011 happening is James Bond: "License to Create."
New this year, the auction begins Thursday, July 21, 5 – 7 p.m., with an Intimate Live Auction of 4 Works of Art. The evening of champagne and hors d'oeuvres includes a preview of Friday night's silent and live auction line-up and an opportunity to bid on four works of art, exclusively created for this mini auction by artists Julie McNair, Amy Schilling, Andy Ward and board member/teacher Robert Weatherford.
The following is from an on-and-off series about summer hikes by Deb Dion Kees, who blogs for Telluride HIking Guide.
Don’t look down, I reminded myself. I could feel my breathing get choppy, and even though we were above 13,000 feet in elevation, I knew it wasn’t from the exertion of being at altitude—it was fear. The serrated ridgeline, sharp and snow-covered, stretched out hundreds of feet ahead of me and I dug my trail running shoes into each icy step, hoping it would hold. Don’t look down.
It was probably a couple of weeks too early in the summer to do it, and I definitely should have brought an ice axe, but the Telluride Peak Traverse still ranks as my all-time favorite hike. The Traverse is one of the new routes in the upcoming third edition of Telluride Hiking Guide, and even later in the season, when the high alpine basins and the knife-edge of a ridgeline are no longer coated with stubborn spring snow, it is a serious adventure.
by Ben Williams
Australia is joining climate action leaders such as New Zealand and the European Union by unveiling a nationwide plan to tax CO2 emissions at $23 per metric ton.
With an economy significantly reliant on extraction industries, and the nation as a whole overly dependent on abundant coal reserves, Australia is one of the world’s largest per capita polluters.
The tax will be introduced July 1, 2012, and is applied only to the largest polluters. But a market-based trading scheme is expected to be introduced as early as 2015 to replace the tax, enabling a carbon exchange similar to the model being piloted by the Green Gondola Campaign.
Since 1984, the Telluride Science Research Center (TSRC), has been dedicated to providing meeting services for scientists. TSRC’s mission is to inspire substantive scientific inquiry, breakthroughs, and discoveries by hosting scientific meetings in an open environment conducive to productive collaboration and positive contributions to research, policy, and education. TSRC is proud to bring its Town Talk science lecture series to the regional community for the 9th season.
The series continues Tuesday, July 12, 6 – 7:15 p.m., at the Palm Theater, with a lecture by Sambhav N. Sankar on the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the mother of all oopsies. Admission is free. A review of the background of the spill requires a look back at the headlines in April 2010.
by Ben Williams
Thanks go to SBG Productions, Inc., for sponsoring a gondola cabin as part of the Green Gondola Campaign. We’re one step closer to beginning installation of our first array: to be installed on the Station Mountain Village roof.
SBG Productions, who gives us the Telluride Blues and Brews Festival each year, joins the ranks of EcoSpaces Green Building Solutions, Colorado Buffalo Salt, 221 South Oak Street Bistro, Nevasca Realty, and BootDoctors: local businesses who care enough about our sustainable future to sponsor a cabin as part of the Green Gondola Campaign.
Getting tickets to the Telluride Bluegrass Festival can be sketchy at times: the recent 38th annual event sold out virtually overnight. Keller Williams and The Keels performed at the 37th Telluride Bluegrass in 2010. That set breathed new life into old classics, as the trio showcased their hit release "Thief."
Missed the show? It was a doozy, but you are in luck: You get a second chance when Keller and The Keels headline the 15th annual KOTO Doo-Dah, Saturday, July 9, 2011, starting at 4 p.m.
