Like every year, summer offers up lots of great photo opportunities.  I’ve been shooting hundreds of digital photos all summer long and now that my schedule has calmed down a bit, it’s time to pull them down off the camera and organize them for later.  I saw this little bit of tech news the other […]

Alex T writes,  “Just back from the 18th annual Crestone Energy fair and green home tour has me excited for Buena Vista’s Sustainability Showcase scheduled for the 27th of September.  The Crestone Fair was full of the color and character that Colorado residents have come to expect from Crestonians.  The home tour that we attended […]

I have to say that having people run with a passion far enough to make it into a festival is a level of fan devotion that I aspire to.  Not being able to attend this years festival, I had a quick run around the web and found a few fun resources for mushroom hunters in Colorado.  The […]

Alex T writes: “My teaching and traveling this past month has kept me away from the end of summer in BV, but I’ve been excited to stay in touch with local and regional-ness electronically from across the interwebs.  I’ve gathered a few stories from BV and Colorado that you might enjoy:
- Buena Vista bids a […]

As the summer travel season reaches it’s peak, I was saddened to read about the loss a great monument in Arches National Park.  Wall Arch was a much photographed icon of Utah’s famed park.  From the Associated Press
“Paul Henderson, the park’s chief of interpretation, said Wall Arch collapsed sometime late Monday or early Tuesday (editors […]

In a bedroom community on the outskirts of Denver, CO in the midst of a rolling hills filled with sprawl lies a 25 acre development that is rejecting those ideas and building for the future. The project is called GEOS. It aims to be the US’s first Fossil Fuel Free Community. From […]

It’s been widely reported that the Bush Administration, as one of their final acts, are looking to remove independent scientific review from the Endangered Species Act. They would prefer that each agency monitor the impact of their own projects on habitat loss and species impact. From the AP article,
“If adopted, these changes would […]

The countdown clock on NBC.com reads less than 24 hours ’til the games begin! With the usual bout of controversy over the host country’s politics and the added interest in what it takes to get blue skies over a city that hasn’t seen them in a decade (The US cycling team got a lot […]

Is a T-shirt from China still a T-shirt from China if it costs almost triple to ship it here?  From the NY Times,The cost of shipping a 40-foot container from Shanghai to the United States has risen to $8,000, compared with $3,000 early in the decade, according to a recent study of transportation costs. Big […]

Driving to the river to connect with some friends new and old this weekend, I greatly enjoyed American Public Media’s Program, Speaking of Faith on our local public radio station KRCC.  This weeks show was devoted to Dr. Stuart Brown, founder of the National Institute for Play.  As you might imagine, the institutes purpose seems […]