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30 Dec TNCC: Looking Back, Looking Ahead

Posted at 04:00h in Environment by Telluwriter TIO 0 Comments

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by Kris Holstrom It always surprises me when the end of year sneaks up and taps me on the back. I’m convinced the speed of life accelerates annually. Regardless, the end of the year and end of a decade is an excellent time to look...

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18 Nov The New Community Coalition: Green Gondola Campaign

Posted at 04:00h in Around Telluride by Susan Viebrock 0 Comments

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[click “Play” to hear Ben Williams speak about the Green Gondola project] Governor Ritter has a very public campaign targeting significant, statewide greenhouse gas reductions by 2020.Telluride Renewed is our two mayors’ local response: a challenge to the communities of Telluride and the Mountain Village...

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03 Nov Telluride retiring councilwoman waxing philosophical on election day

Posted at 04:45h in Around Telluride, Personalities by Susan Viebrock 0 Comments

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[click “Play to hear Susan’s conversation with Andrea Benda] Andrea Benda (r) with friend and council colleague, Lulu Hunt Retiring Telluride councilwoman Andrea Benda spends a great deal of time wandering around a cemetery. She is not maudlin. She has nothing to bury, not even...

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22 Sep Telluride finishes out of the money in CAST Challenge

Posted at 14:40h in Around Telluride by Telluwriter TIO 0 Comments

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(editor's note: Telluride local, David Allen, was the driving force behind the CAST Challenge, a six month long contest to see which mountain town could do the most to reduce one-use plastic bags. TIO was happy to publish weekly articles about the efforts of ski...

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05 Aug Telluride Museum: Fireside with Howard Greager

Posted at 15:46h in Old Events, Performing Arts by Eileen Burns 0 Comments

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[click to hear Eileen speak with author Howard Greager] “COWBOY TALES OF A WEST END COWBOY” The Telluride Historical Museum’s Fireside Chat series continues this Thursday, August 6, at the Fire Pit in Telluride’s Mountain Village with “Cowboy Tales of a West End Cowboy”, featuring...

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27 May Telluride Renewable Energy Initiative

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Telluride Mountainfilm was an appropriate venue for the announcement on May 23 of a new program of renewable energy in the Telluride region. The introduction to the session was given by Bill McKibben, longtime advocate for solutions to global climate change. Mountain Village mayor Bob...

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05 May Razz-a-ma-tazz: Legalize Marijuana & Grow the Economy

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by Art Goodtimes At his on-line town hall meet March 26th, Pres. Obama was asked if he thought legalizing marijuana might improve our economy. He laughed, joked about people who use Internet, and said, “No, I don’t think that is a good strategy to grow...

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12 Apr Razz-a-ma-tazz: Saving the world one tub at a time

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by Art Goodtimes (a more-or-less monthly on-line column for TIO) The International Herald Tribune/New York Times took a swipe at Telluride March 25th, with Bernstein’s “True Environmentalist, or Mountains of Vanity?” calling out “hot tub environmentalists” for driving the town’s finances into the ancient glacial...

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10 Apr TNCC: making a difference (continued)

Posted at 06:00h in Around Telluride by Telluwriter TIO 0 Comments

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by Kris Holstrom (Editor's note: Tellurider/director/coordinator Kris Holstrom and The New Community Coaltion (TNCC), the change-agent charged with the greening of the Telluride region, are doing more than talking. TNCC is walking its talk, making a difference, only the changes it is affecting are not...

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03 Apr RSVP preached resilience in the face of change to Riley and the Pols

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(Part of "Telluride Inside…and Out's" ongoing support of The New Community Coalition and related change agents, such as the Regional Sustainability Visioning Project, is to keep the post-meeting dialogue going. County commissioner/poet Art Goodtimes writes "Razz-a-ma-tazz: a more-or-less monthly on-line column for TIO."Below he comments...

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