Original article can be found at The Dailycamera
Originally published on August 16,2010
By Brittany Anas
The University of Colorado needs to pass its green crown to Green Mountain College, a school in Vermont that celebrated last Earth Day by installing a biomass plant on its campus. (Read on …)
Original article can be found at The Dallas Morning News
Originally published on August 8,2010
By Elizabeth Bennett
Author Buzzy Jackson has the 20th most common surname in America, but she managed to trace her roots back more than 250 years. It wasn’t easy, as Jackson makes clear in Shaking the Family Tree, an entertaining, enlightening look at how she did it. (Read on …)
Remarks by Bruce Babbitt
Denver, Colorado, April 15, 2010
I am pleased to join you at this gathering to assess the future of the National Landscape Conservation System. The 10th anniversary of the Executive Order creating the System is a good time to look back, to reflect upon lessons learned, and to look forward to the next ten years.
By any measure the Conservation System is off to an impressive start. The System is now the administrative home for some 27 million acres of protected areas including National Monuments, National Conservation Areas, Wilderness Areas, National Trails and Wild and Scenic Rivers within the Bureau of Land Management. The BLM now has a conservation mandate (Read on …)
Original article can be found at The Durango Telegraph
Originally published on June 3, 2010
By Allen Best
For just a brief period of civilization, humans have tapped the dense energy of fossil fuels. “Sweet perfume,” Carbondale’s Randy Udall, a consulting energy analyst and one of the nation’s leading activists in promoting energy sustainability, called them at a recent panel discussion in Denver. “These fossil fuels are magical.” (Read on …)
Original article can be found at The Huffington Post
Originally published on June 1, 2010
By Patricia Nelson Limerick
On May 10, 2010, Jeremy Nichols, Climate and Energy Program Director for WildEarth Guardians wrote an article entitled “Get Your Sharp Sticks Ready.” His piece, referencing a comment given by Patty Limerick in a Denver Post article on May 9, 2010, provided the perfect opportunity to open a dialogue for discussion on this heated topic. Below, is Patty Limerick’s response which was a bit too long to post in the comments section of his article.
Original article can be found at Tahoe Daily
Originally published on April 23, 2010
By Staff
An exhibition by photographer Peter Goin called “Fire!” will be on display through June 18 at the Haldan Art Gallery at Lake Tahoe Community College.
Goin is a professor of art in photography and videography at the University of Nevada, Reno, and the author of “Tracing the Line: A Photographic Survey of the Mexican-American Border,” “Nuclear Landscapes,” “Stopping Time: A Rephotographic Survey of Lake Tahoe with Essays by C. Elizabeth Raymond and Robert E. Blesse” and “Humanature.”
Original article can be found at New York Times
Originally published on April 21, 2010
By Richard Bernstein
NEW YORK — How nice to see that New York Magazine, one of the what’s-trendy weekly magazines here, has chosen my neighborhood, Park Slope in Brooklyn, as the best place to live in New York City.
To be sure, Park Slope has become a pretty nice place over the past 25 years, as the neighborhood, like New York in general, has experienced its long turnaround. The fear of walking out our front doors was replaced by pride in our security, and all the amenities that define the urban professional middle class — trendy restaurants, bicycle and jogging paths, yoga and pilates studios, organic food emporia and the like — proliferated, while real estate prices stayed well below those in Manhattan. (Read on …)
Original article can be found at the Headwaters news website
Originally published on March 11,2010
By Steve Woodruff
After a sensational day of fishing for Yellowstone cutthroats back in the 1930s, my grandfather fought heroically outside a bar in Gardiner, Mont., with a man who insisted nothing but a rainbow trout was worth catching. (Read on …)
Original article can be found at the Denver Post Website
Originally published on April 1,2010
By Bill Husted
BAR: THE CORNER BAR
The Corner Bar at McCormick’s Fish House and Bar sees the action. Picture windows face Wazee and 17th streets — the best way to see whether it’s snowing. For when it is, Irish coffees are $1. The nightly happy-hour menu approaches the ridiculous, with a big, juicy cheeseburger going for $2.95. The stained-glass windows behind the long bar depict a peaceful pastoral scene — perfect for the 12 stool-sitters to study when not watching the two flat-screen TVs. Before McCormick’s took it over in 1987, it was a hippie hangout, and it still holds onto that relaxed vibe. (Read on …)
Original article can be found at the Alchemy of Abundance
Originally published on March 5,2010
By RJ
In our fairy tale “spiritual world,” where fantasy reigns supreme, one program after another claims that by changing your thinking, or by consciously wishing for things, you can have them and be happy. There may actually be some truth to this idea, in very specific contexts, but it ignores the fact that most of us do not get what we wish for, and even when we do, it is not exactly as we imagined and things tend to take unexpected turns.