EARTH MATTERS: THE TIDAL EFFECT ILLUSION
Sailors, fisherman, surfers, and Inuits are but a few of the communities that have an intimate relationship with the tidal effect in coastal environments. For surfers, the differen
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ECOACTION PARTNERS: DECEMBER ROUNDTABLE 12/14/12
What’s happening with recycling and wastes in our region? Does recycling even make sense in our remote rural region? Should you be buying beer in cans instead of glass bottles? F
JUST BEFORE BIG BENEFIT CONCERT, A SANDY SURVIVOR LOOKS BACK
Editor’s Note: Of course there’s a Telluride connection. Some of the biggest names in music will play at a benefit concert on Wednesday at Madison Square Garden. The St
“ALL.I.CAN.” TO SAVE OUR SNOW + ALISON GANNETT
EcoAction Partners is extremely excited to be partnering with The Nature Conservancy and Jagged Edge to bring Alison Gannett to town. Alison is scheduled to speak Thursday evening,
EARTH MATTERS: CLIMATE SCIENCE & THE AMERICAN MIND
“You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink.” When attempting to elevate climate change awareness in the United States, this time-weathered sage advice metapho
EARTH MATTERS: COMPOSTING FOR CHANGE
Sometimes there are too many things to write about. This week’s happenings are a case in point. The COP18 Doha Climate Change Conference is happening in Qatar of all places,
ECOACTION PARTNERS: SURVIVE – ARE YOU READY?
Sandy, the horror-cane was a powerful force in our country in many ways. The human suffering continues even a month after the event. The infrastructure damage caused by Sandy has t
EARTH MATTERS: ELECTION AFTERMATH
Sometimes, as a happily willing participant in humanity’s evolving global experiment on Earth, I “imagine” or more accurately I conduct a comparative analysis of protocol ind
EARTH MATTERS: CLIMATE CHANGE EVENTS
I usually leave climate change to my co-columnist, Billy Mason. His expertise in the subject way exceeds mine. But I make an exception for the specific subjects of flooding and sea
ECOACTION PARTNERS: GROWTH OPPORTUNITES?
Are agriculture and heritage tourism potential growth industries? On Tuesday, November 13, the historic Wright Opera House in Ouray was the perfect setting for folks from the Color
2012 ELECTION AND THE ENVIRONMENT
The long presidential campaign and the election are behind us. I won’t try to predict what will happen, but I know what must happen: as a nation we must get to work on clima
EARTH MATTERS: HUB, SPOKES AND WHEEL
Geography is everything. It is the granddaddy of all academia. Geography entails the exploration of the interactions and interrelationships between space, place, and environment. I
TIO ON THE ROAD: SANDY, YOU’VE MADE A MESS
Sus and I have done it again: Just over eleven years ago, we arrived at her parents’ new apartment in Hackensack, NJ, to help them move in. On September 10. Now we have just
EARTH MATTERS: THE OYSTER IS YOUR WORLD
Any environmental blog this week has to talk about the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy. I’m going to write about ecosystem restoration. The two issues are, in fact, closely
ECOACTION PARTNERS: FARM TO CAFETERIA
Last Friday, Sophia Cinnamon, our VISTA student, and I were pleased to join nearly 40 others in Montrose for the Farm to Cafeteria Conference put on by Carol Parker and the Valley
EARTH MATTERS: BLOWIN’ IN THE WIND
The iconic Bob Dylan song, “’The Times They Are A-Changin,’” touches upon the universal truth that change is constant. As humanity moves forward into the 21st century,
ECOACTION PARTNERS: WORMY WAYS
What organism, along with its associated ‘community’ can process its own weight in waste each day – without special equipment, costly buildings and a degree in chemistry? Hin
EARTH MATTERS: THE DARA REPORT
As of 2011, 192 out of 198 countries worldwide have ratified the international Kyoto Protocol and taken significant steps towards reducing human-induced greenhouse gas emissions th
EARTH MATTERS: CITIZEN SCIENCE
This week, I attended the Land Trust Alliance’s annual Rally to moderate a panel on ecosystem based management, ocean use planning, and conservation. While there, I got the chanc
TIO ON THE ROAD: VISIT TO MUSHROOM MOUNTAIN
Trad and Olga Cotter were in Telluride in August for Shroomfest, touting among other things the three mushroom infusion we tasted brewed into Smuggler Joe’s Red Ale. The Cott
ECOACTION PARTNERS: CROWDFUNDING
October EcoAction Roundtable (EAR) investigates the New Financial Frontier of Crowdfunding We are pleased to have Anthony Edwards – our neighbor from Silverton – coming over
EARTH MATTERS: INSECT OUTBREAKS IN COLORADO
As Telluride’s old-timers gather for a 40th anniversary celebration this weekend, my middle-aged mind drifted back to glory days of Colorado in the 1970s, when the Rocky Mountain
EARTH MATTERS: CLEANUP AT DAINGERFIELD
Saturday morning, I got up early and hopped on my bike to ride from the District down to Daingerfield Island, which is not really an island but is a National Park just south of Was
ECOACTIONS PARTNERS: AUTUMN FALLS
One song really sums up my feelings about the seasons in Telluride. “If Ever I Would Leave You” is a love song, yes, but not just to a queen from her lover. It is a lov