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 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 …)
By Tom Burke and Ken Neubecker
Friday, April 10, 2009
GJ Sentinel Article
“The West is very rich in resources. The West is very rich in landscape beauty. As a result, the West is rich in contention.” “It’s not easy being rich.” — “What Every Westerner Should Know About Energy”
That truth, contained in a 2003 publication from the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado, has been evident since 2007, when the Legislature ordered a fresh look at rules governing oil and gas exploration and production in Colorado.
More recently, Coloradans became painfully aware of another truism — one about too many eggs in one basket — as a booming energy economy succumbed to the demons of oversupply, low prices, comparatively high production costs and lack of pipeline capacity. (Read on …)
CU is about more than just science and tech
By G.P. “Bud” Peterson
Colorado Daily Article
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Four Nobel Laureates, seven MacArthur Fellows, No. 1 in NASA research funding — clearly, the University of Colorado at Boulder is a national leader in the natural sciences and engineering research.
As a comprehensive national university, however, our responsibilities extend well beyond science and technology. (Read on …)
By Carol Maskus
Boulder County Business Report
February 15, 2008
BOULDER – The calendar of events for the Center of the American West keeps you guessing. Some events are political, some are artistic, and some you expect would be political are not.
On Thursday, Feb. 28, the center is screening a film on the ills of the energy industry, but instead of just hosting filmmaker Joe Brown and the activists who surround the issue it also is hosting members of the energy industry to spark debate.
On Thursday, April 17, former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor will speak not about her views on abortion but on her experiences growing up along the Arizona/New Mexico border. (Read on …)
That’s right, it’s that time of year again for the release of the Center’s Newsletter! You can access the newsletter from our Newsletter page to read it online, or contact us for a physical copy to call your very own.
Don’t miss the exciting news from this past fall!
By Patty Limerick and Tim Brown
On November 11, the New York Times Magazine ran an interview with Patty Limerick on the recent resurgence of Westerns in Hollywood. As part of that interview, Patty mentioned offhand that “No one is going to make a film about the 500,000 abandoned mines in the West – and that may be too small a number – a symbol of the legacy of environmental damage.” In the days that followed, Patty and the Center received several letters questioning the number she cited – a number that the Center referenced in our report on the subject, Cleaning Up Abandoned Hardrock Mines in the West: Prospecting for a Better Future – from skeptical readers who felt that the figure was overstated. We do not retreat from that calculation, but we do feel that by focusing on a data dispute these readers may be missing the larger significance of the West’s abandoned mine problem. (Read on …)
By NICOLE DANNA Colorado Daily Staff Writer
Tuesday, October 30, 2007 9:15 PM MDT
…CU Professor Patty Limerick, faculty director of the Center of the American West, will also be heading up a Halloween costume competition between the center’s staff and the staff of the CU-Boulder Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society today.Limerick said she and the center’s staff will leave the Center of the American West office in Macky Auditorium in costume at 4 p.m., and will “walk deliberately, in the manner of Gary Cooper in ‘High Noon,’” across campus toward the ATLAS building on 18th Street near Colorado Avenue.” The staff of ATLAS and the center will meet at the ATLAS building for the Center of the American West/Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society Halloween Costume Competition.
The full story is located on Colorado Daily’s Website
By the Missoulian
The role the American West plays in providing energy will be the focus of the 31st Annual Public Land Law Conference Sept. 24-26 at The University of Montana School of Law.
“Rocky Mountain Energy Leadership: Strategies for a New Energy Future” will emphasize how laws and policies can position Rocky Mountain states to play a leadership role in sustainable energy policies.
The conference kicks off with a keynote address titled “The Power of the Rockies: Living With Energy in the Old West, the New West and the Next West” (Read on …)