EAR: INNOVATIVE IDEAS AND AFFIRMATIVE ACTIONS
Last Friday’s EcoAction Roundtable (EAR) had attendees buzzing with new ideas while making great connections. The subject was Waste Stream Innovations. Short videos about the Blu
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SUMMER SUNDAY: SEXY BIKES AND WEDGE SANDALS
Bikes are sexy. This is not an opinion; it’s a fact. And, I have evidence to prove it. Once, standing outside a Crested Butte coffee shop, in tight bike clothes with my yellow La
EARTH MATTERS: AIR POLLUTION KILLS
In the summer of 1982 I was a young mountaineer cutting my teeth on the steep slopes and hard rock of the San Juan Mountains in Colorado. Sitting atop Hesperus Mountain (13,232 ft.
FASHION FRIDAY: DAISIES FOR MOTHER’S DAY
It feels like the 1960s all over again. Flower power is one of the trends of the hour. (Along with color blocking, which we discussed in this column – what was it? – a month
ANNA AT THE PITTSBURGH CHILDREN’S MUSEUM
Though a lifetime has happened since the great afternoon Susan and I spent with our beautiful, long-legged Granddaughter, I had to take a few minutes out to give a shout-out to the
ECOACTION ROUNDTABLE: WASTE STREAM INNOVATIONS
Green Business Roundtable is changing its name along with The New Community Coalition. While TNCC is becoming EcoAction Partners, the GBR is becoming the EcoAction Roundtable (EAR)
HUNTING & GATHERING: THE RAIN IN SPAIN & FABADA
Sorry Professor Higgins and Eliza Doolittle, the rain in Spain has absolutely nothing to do with the plain. It much prefers the hilly lands of the country’s northern coast. Remin
EARTH MATTERS: UNDERWATER ART HELPS SAVE REEFS
Academic and professional conferences, in my experience, produce very few “WOW” moments. So when I came down to St. Petersburg, Florida, for the Coastal Counties Summit this we
BUDDHISM 101 AT TELLURIDE YOGA CENTER
In July 2010 a group of red-robed monks from the Gaden Shartse Monastery unpacked their cymbals and longhorns on the grass in front of Ophir Town Hall and blessed the whole valley
FASHION FRIDAY: WHITE JEANS NOW!
Emily Post and our mothers (and grandmothers) taught us that wearing white is inappropriate before the last weekend in May or Memorial Day, and definitely a no-no after Labor Day.
THE NEW COMMUNITY COALITION BECOMES ECOACTION PARTNERS
It’s Official! We’re changing our name to EcoAction Partners (EcoAP). We’ve also updated our mission and streamlined our work plan and activities. Our mission is to inspire,
SNOW SUNDAY: DURANGO’S SICK SINGLE TRACK
Last week an avid Telluride cyclist posted a trail report on Facebook: Rudy’s, Penelope’s and The Galloping Goose are all clear and riding well. Then, on Friday it snowed. Tell
EARTH MATTERS: FLYING MACHINES
Editor’s note: Scientist/writer and part-time Telluride local Billy Mason is also a pilot. This week he takes a time out from his focus on the health of our planet – well,
FASHION FRIDAY: TRAVELING LIGHT
Spring breaks may have come and gone, but spring travel continues, with many of us getting a jump-start on summer by hanging out on a beach. If you are like me, after a long winter
YOUR AH HAA MOMENT: SUMMER FUN, CREATIVE MOMENTS
“Artist” may not be part of your Facebook profile, but we at the Ah Haa School believe it could be and should be. We designed our summer programs to make finding your i
INSIDE MOUNTAIN FILM: THE WARMEST MARCH
Editor’s Note: In several installments of their weekly Earth Matters column, Billy Mason and Anna Zivian have explored the subject of climate change from several different pe
TELLURIDE NEWB: CHECKING OUT GOLD HILL 10
Gold Hill 10 is the official “forgotten run” of Telluride. Granted, it’s almost never open, but the real reason for its “lack of skier traffic” is the lengthy trek requir
TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL, SUNDAY AT THE PALM: “EARTH”
“Sunday at the Palm” presents “Earth” (2007). “This ‘earth’ is beautiful and worthwhile,” wrote Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times about Disney’s “
SNOW SUNDAY: BRING YOUR PEDALS
For off-season, my family got one of the greatest invites ever: To join some long time friends at their family’s (rad) beach front home on Oahu. Sick. Plans were made, tickets bo
INSIDE MOUNTAINFILM IN TELLURIDE: DEEPWATER HORIZON DISASTER
Editor’s Note: It’s off season in Telluride now. Not a creature is stirring. But with May only weeks away, thoughts turn to the summer season. The kick off is Mountai
EARTH MATTERS: EARTH’S ENERGY BALANCE
Editor’s Note: The dynamic duo of Billy Mason (who wrote this post) and Anna Zivian, scholars with an agenda to save our planet, posts weekly, stories about everythi
ECOACTIONS PARTNERS: SPRING IS SPRUNG
Springtime in the Rockies. Ah yes. We go from toasty warm, shorts and tank top weather to eight inches of snow, from dry roads to muddy ruts to icy pavement and back again in the b
EARTH MATTERS: BEES ON THEIR KNEES
The news has migrated from the front page to back pages, but it’s still news: Honeybees are dying. So many bees have bitten the dust the phenomenon has a name: Colony Collaps
WHEN OFF-SEASON ARRIVES IN TELLURIDE
In the spring, when the weather in southwestern Colorado flips between winter and summer, often in the same hour, it can be hard to stay focused. Should we bike or ski? Spring clea