Original article can be found at Colorado Daily
Originally published on September 28,2010
By Vanessa Miller
After being honored by the University of Colorado’s Center of the American West in the morning and speaking over lunch for the Colorado Conservation Voters, media mogul Ted Turner spent Tuesday night mingling with dignitaries at his new Pearl Street restaurant. (Read on …)
Original article can be found at Denver Post
Originally published on September 29,2010
By David Olinger
In hard times, college enrollment programs can experience great times — particularly those that teach specific job skills.
While Colorado residents suffered wage cuts and job losses during a national recession, the number of them paying to go to college grew, according to census survey data released Tuesday. (Read on …)
Original article can be found at New West Development
Originally published on September 29,2010
By Allen Best, Guest Writer
You can see how Ted Turner might be a handful. Patty Limerick, the noted historian of the American West, interviewed him on Tuesday morning, and for awhile it was uncertain whether she would get a question in edgewise. Limerick, who can parse and parry with the best of them, rarely has that problem. (Read on …)
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 …)