Hi ChannelBV Readers! It’s Alex, John and Allison, your friendly CBV founders. We wanted to take a moment to thank you for all of your support. We have received so much good feedback and encouragement around this project, we really feel that our work is having an impact and that people appreciate what […]

Wandering the country in a silver airstream trailer, the national oral history project known as StoryCorps has arrived in Denver for a three week visit. If you haven’t had a chance to hear their inspiring work on NPR’s Morning Edition, the project revolves around ordinary people talking to each other and telling stories for […]

Alex T writes: ” I was excited to see that a few folks are carrying around copies of ‘Deep Economy’ By Bill McKibben in paperback this week. Excited because 9 months ago, a local book group headed up by my co-editor Allison Abdelnour read this book together. The discussions surrounding the ideas in […]

Alex T writes: Finally! Scientific validation is at hand!! Scientific American just published this delightful article talking about the direct psychological and physiological benefits that blogging has in store for you when you *hint hint wink nudge* start blogging! From the article:
“Research shows that it (blogging) improves memory and sleep, boosts […]

Every now and again there are ideas that challenge most of the ways that the world works day-to-day. The change when approached with an open mind can be very easy to manage and may actually appear to be one of the most obvious ideas of all time and may leave the reader wondering, ‘ […]

Living in a small town doesn’t have to mean being cut off from the cultural benefits of living in a major city. With music from CPMF and the Alpine Orchestra, reknowned speakers from the Collegiate Peaks Forum, and respected work hanging in numerous art galleries, Buena Vista has much to offer the curious mind.
For […]

Alex T writes: It’s finally beautiful outside. So the obivous thing to do is go spend your ‘economic stimulus check’ on some new toys. So after you purchase that new mountain bike, kayak or experimental aircraft, you are going to need a place to store it, right. But is this a photo […]

Alex T writes: “There’s no shortage of information about the world today. While some of us moved to BV to escape the full frontal assault of the media-industrial complex, there are still hundreds of news sites, TV channels, Billboards and Radio stations, not to mention the tens of thousands of bloggers clamoring for your […]

As part of our Participatory Culture series of articles and events, and in hopes of shedding more light on what we are trying to do here at ChannelBV, we are hosting an event for Chaffee county Businesses and Non-Profits. On Wednesday, April 16 at 7:00, ChannelBV invites you and your organization to a free […]

Throughout history, tools have enabled us to leapfrog forward; to increase our productive capacity and to advance as a people. In the same way that the plow allowed fewer people to produce more food in less time, the Internet enables us to produce, communicate and collect more knowledge, more quickly than ever before. […]