EARTH MATTERS: CABINET-MAKING
A new Presidential term always starts with some changes, but there are several in store for President Obama’s second term that could make a big difference for the environment. So
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ECOACTION: TRUTH OR DARE, UPDATES, INSIGHTS
Three weeks into our eco-friendly competition and we have upped the number of participants to 36. The race is on! Daily, participants in this new EcoAction Partners initiative are
EARTH MATTERS: BRIGHTER & BOULDER
The city of Boulder, Colorado, has long been a vibrant community that understands the symbiotic relationship between quality of life and health of the natural environment. Since at
EARTH MATTERS: FUTURE OF GMOS
At lunch, A friend asked “What’s going to happen with GMOs?” I didn’t have an answer, but I did come up with some issues to watch. I’ll go into some of these in more deta
ECOACTION PARTNERS: POINTS & PRIZES
January 1, 2013, EcoAction Partners welcomed in the New Year with our Truth or Dare campaign. With 30 participants to date, the heat is on. In this month-long competition anyone wh
EARTH MATTERS: HAPPY BLUE YEAR!
For this coming year, I have several fishes – I mean wishes – for the ocean. Here are a few: • Less plastic Plastic is one of the most persistent pollutants in the ocean, and
SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS WEATHER: COLD AND SNOW, 12/29/12
Weak surface high pressure is over Colorado this morning keeping cold air over the region with zero or below temps in the mountains and lower valleys. Air temperatures will incre
EARTH MATTERS: WHALES PLEAD FOR SILENCE
Since the first primal grunt, humans have heavily relied on communication to survive. We use the art of language to sculpt our society, to stimulate our economy, and to describe th
EARTH MATTERS: CORAL, PROTECTED?
Star. Pillar. Elkhorn. Staghorn. Mountainous star. Pocillopora elegans. Pachyseris rugosa. Astreopora cucullata. Barabattoia laddi. Those are just nine of the 66 species of coral p
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
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