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
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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
EARTH MATTERS: SPACE JUNK
The mantra remains the same: “Out of sight, out of mind.” Looking up towards the heavens, I see the brilliance of star clustered-galaxies as far as the eye can see. However, wh
ECOACTION PARTNERS: AT HOME WITH THE SUN
EcoAction Partners was pleased with a good turnout at last week’s Action Roundtable featuring Tyler Mize of Alternative Power Enterprises AND Chris Binner, Local Realtor.
EARTH MATTERS: TAKE ON THE TRASH
Editor’s Note: This is another installment of a weekly series by the team of scholars/dynamic enviro-activists Anna Zivian and Billy Mason. Both have deep ties to Telluride, bu
EARTH MATTERS: THE FATE OF TELLURIDE’S SNOW PACK
I find it a bit ironic that “climate change deniers” Mitt Romney’s and Paul Ryan’s Republican convention in Tampa, Florida, had to be rescheduled because of a tropical
TELLURIDE: END OF THE RAINBOW
Just couldn’t help myself: I took these photographs from our bedroom fifteen minutes ago. I think this is proof positive- at the end of the rainbow you’ll find Tellurid
EARTH MATTERS: OCEAN HEALTH UP TO US
Let’s set the curve! How decisions we make about the coasts and oceans affect overall ocean health A paper published [today] in Nature outlines a way to assess and compare the he
ECOACTION PARTNERS: GARBAGE TO GOLD
The US Pro Cycling challenge blasted through Telluride on Monday, August 20, fast, furious and really fun.We here at EcoAction Partners did our best to help out with our usual comp
EARTH MATTERS: THE BOTTOM LINE
Regardless whether you understand the empirical evidence that indicates human-induced activities have exaggerated the greenhouse effect or if you just “feel” that the climate c
EARTH MATTERS: JUST LABEL IT
Between tax returns and food ingredients, it seems hiding information is the order of the day. Massive “life science” corporations like Monsanto and DuPont, multinational food
EARTH MATTERS: ANIMAL COMMUNICATION
Featuring a remarkable encounter with a Pacific harbor seal The ability of animals and humans to communicate has evolved over eons as an adaptation to facilitate species’ surviva