Two submissions have come to us in the last day related to Nestlé and local sustainability issues. The first, was a link to this Huffington Post commentary by Michael DeJong. He writes:
“Bottled water, even from a super-slick eco-spinner like Nestlé, will forever be a massive waste of our collective resources. As a multi-national giant posing [...]

Lester Brown sums up a paper from two scientists at the Denver-based Rocky Mountain Institute, an energy think tank.
“In an excellent recent analysis, “The Nuclear Illusion, (download pdf)” Amory B. Lovins and Imran Sheikh put the cost of electricity from a new nuclear power plant at 14¢ per kilowatt hour and that from a [...]

Bill Donavan, one of the Salida Citizen founders, recently took a field trip over to the San Luis Valley to visit the massive solar array that sits on the valley floor. Bill and the fifth graders spent the day in awe of the giant, silent energy collectors. He writes:
“The National Renewable Energy Laboratory rates the [...]

I filled up our Subaru today and noticed that I payed less than half price for a full tank than I did a year ago. Gas in Buena Vista is around 1.69 for regular unleaded! I definitely have mixed feelings on this issue.
From a financial standpoint, I feel happy that I can allocate more of [...]

A durable community has a well known checklist of needs. Localized food, energy, and economic activity are the pillars upon which a community or region can or cannot stand on it’s own. These are the same requirements that have existed for communities since the beginning of time. With this list in mind, [...]

Walking through a bookstore last month, a cover caught my eye, The Transition Handbook - From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience by Rob Hopkins. That was my first introduction to the concept of “transition towns” or towns that are working now to reduce their need for oil and build infrastructure that supports a durable community. [...]

Alex T writes, “As you may have seen here on this site and elsewhere, CMC hosted a Sustainability Festival at the Orpheum Theatre in Buena Vista a couple of weeks ago. The event, which focused on local green and community-oriented businesses as well as the path forward into a world with an uncertain energy [...]

Coming at you with a special Saturday edition of ChannelBV! We are spending the day in beautiful downtown Buena Vista in the Orpheum Theatre, staffing our booth at the First Annual Sustainability Showcase sponsored by Colorado Mountain College. If you’re reading this at home, come join us for a day of engaging speakers, [...]

ChannelBV reader, Todd H., writes:
Bicyclists know it. Electric car drivers know it, and now thanks to DBC Salida Biodiesel I know it. It’s the warm and fuzzy feeling you get when you travel from point A to point B without consuming a single drop of fossil fuel. But more than just a [...]

In the Buena Vista town trustee debates, it was difficult not to notice the distrust of wind generation as a viable energy solution in town. Wind consistency and strength issues aside, one of the most obvious hurdles would be the noise factor.
Concerns with wind turbine noise are not confined to cities and towns. Search wind [...]