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21 Feb 2nd ANNUAL TEDxTellurideLive: PREVIEW TWO FEATURED SPEAKERS
Register NOW for TEDxTellurideLive’s second annual simulcast at the Palm Theatre. You must register to attend the free event. TED means business. The TED Conference, which started out small in 1984 in the marina town of Long Beach, California, is now a global enterprise dedicated...
19 Feb TELLURIDE VENTURE ACCELERATOR: HIGH DESERT FARMS, NUTRITION + SUSTAINABILITY
Here’s one sweet business proposition that contains very little sugar. Although the outlook for this new company was just sweetened by a recent victory. Bill Manning and his High Desert Farms became one of four winners of the Telluride Foundation‘s newest initiatives, Telluride Venture Accelerator,...
06 Jan TELLURIDE FOUNDATION: NEIL ARMSTRONG SCHOLARSHIP
Regional youth eligible for a four year science, technology engineer, or math college scholarship The family and friends of Neil Armstrong and the Telluride Foundation have announced the creation of a Neil Armstrong Scholarship Fund to honor the achievements and character of the late American...
31 Dec 2012 TELLURIDE GRANT AWARDS
For 12 years, Telluride Foundation consistently supports regional nonprofits, awarding grants to 76 local organizations in 2012 The end of the year brings an extra holiday gift to many local nonprofit organizations that serve the Telluride community and region. On Friday, December 28, the Telluride...
07 Dec 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 metaphorically represents the agonizing sentiments of climate scientists worldwide. After the International Panel on Climate Change released...
05 Oct 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 chance to see several other presentations, including one about an impressive program in Puerto Rico, where a...
23 Sep “TELLURIDE NOW AND THEN”
40th reunion show at Telluride Gallery of Fine Art Author Tom Wolfe coined the term that defined the era when Americans transitioned from lives focused on community or tribe (think “Hair”) to “run-with-the-loot” individualism. The 1970s was the “Me Decade.” Major trends included a growing...
31 Aug 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 storm caused by global warming. Climate change increases the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events due...