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[click to hear Elisabeth Gick on Tibet]

Nt 438 Elisabeth Gick first came to Telluride in September of 1979, like so many of us, an "accidental tourist.”

“The beauty of the valley sucked me right in and has not let go yet.”

Gick’s children, now adults, went through school here, and she started a very satisfying landscaping business, Outer Spaces, while also becoming deeply involved in a number of non-profits, including Mountainfilm and the Out Loud lecture series.

“I consider myself incredibly lucky to be living here.”

A few years ago, Elisabeth caught the travel bug, visiting interested Nepal in 1999, Vietnam and Cambodia in 2002, India for three months in 2005, India again for three months in 2006-2007.

12 January, 2009 /

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Solar at High/Middle School

David de Rothschild has nothing on The New Community Coalition, at the forefront of the Telluride region's sustainable initiatives.

If your concern is carbon footprints on your spotless floors,  in de Rothschild's "The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook," the author lists 77 ways to reduce that impact. The New Community Coalition has figured 121 ways to make 2009 a greater, greener year.

In case you missed it, you can also see Little Ways 1-46.  Going Green can be easy!

09 January, 2009 /

Greasy Goose to Spearhead concert David de Rothschild has nothing on The New Community Coalition, at the forefront of the Telluride region's sustainable initiatives.

If your concern is carbon footprints on your spotless floors,  in de Rothschild's "The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook," the author lists 77 ways to reduce that impact. The New Community Coalition has figured 121 ways to make 2009 a greater, greener year.

This first post lists TNCC's Little Ways 1-46. Watch for 47-121. Going Green can be easy!

08 January, 2009 /

TGFA_visitors_2The First Thursday Art Walk, sponsored by the Telluride Council for the Arts and Humanities, is a day-long block party with a mission: to showcase Telluride's fine art scene, including galleries and studios, which stay open late until 8 p.m.

The event is meant to deepen ties between Telluride's business and cultural economies by exposing locals and visitors to emerging and established arts and the town's retail scene.

The 2009 kickoff is Thursday, January 8, with many venues hosting their own artists' receptions, 5 – 8 p.m.

Among them:

07 January, 2009 /

In 2005. the Telluride Council for the Arts and Humanities opened the Stronghouse Studios (283 S. Fir Street), a cooperative created to provide an affordable, dynamic environment in which local visual, literary, textile, and musical artists can create and interact. Tonight, the Stronghouse Studios...

07 January, 2009 /

Lustre (171 South Pine), an artisan gallery, regularly showcases a distinctive collection of hand-crafted collectibles for the home and wearable art for the body: from brightly colored chandeliers and furniture made of exotic woods and inlays to the jewelry of artists such as Aaron...

07 January, 2009 /

The Telluride region's The New Community Coalition evolved in 2007 at a time when green is the new black, when sprout heads and tree huggers are no longer the lunatic fringe, when only the lunatic fringe is questioning climate change, when new jobs are literally...

06 January, 2009 /

TIO's Eileen Burns was out and amongst 'em in Telluride on New Year's Eve.She passed along a few photos to celebrate the beginning of 2009. Mayor Stu Fraser is shown with Town Council Member Andrea Benda and his wife, Ginny.  ...

03 January, 2009 /