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Site Visit: Alliance for Sustainable Colorado

I recently had the opportunity to take two tours of 1536 Wynkoop St in the Lower Downtown section of Denver. A hundred year old brick building that began as a warehouse, the structure is now home to some 38 non-profit organizations and the Alliance for Sustainable Colorado. According to the tour guide, the building was [...]

Ski Industry Develops Alternative Energy for Survival

Hunter Sykes is a sustainability consultant with Coldstream Sustainability Group, a 20-year ski industry veteran and the director of the film: Resorting to Madness: Taking Back Our Mountain Communities.  He holds an MA in International Environmental Policy from the Monterey Institute of International Studies.   If you are a skier or boarder, have you ever thought [...]

Carbon Offsets: The Debate Continues

Carbon offsetting is an area of the green economy that has been in the news for sometime now. Economii.com states that “Carbon offsets are used to reduce the amount of carbon that an individual or institution emits into the atmosphere. Carbon offsets work in a financial system where, instead of reducing its own carbon use, [...]

The Double Edged Sword of Growth and Development

A few months back our Five Friday Facts came by way of a 60 Minutes story on Brazil (see the video clip below). Many of the facts touted Brazil’s progress in the area of clean energy. One that did not make the cut was the following fact, “Ninety percent of the roads in the country are still [...]

The Future of Coal

Environmentalists and a handful of politicians have dreamed of a day when coal power plants are shut down and supplanted by renewable energy sources. However, even though renewable energy is on the rise, coal will likely continue to be a significant part of the world’s energy supply for decades to come. This is especially true [...]

Toward a New Set of Three “R”s

I’ve been thinking about this for a long time now. Reduce, reuse, recycle is a fantastic approach to conservation and economic restraint. While I still find value in these, I want to put forth a few more options. The first set of words below are grouped together as a new set of three, but in [...]

The Biomimetic City and Sustainability

“After 3.8 billion years of research and development, failures are fossils, and what surrounds us is the secret to survival.” -Janine Benyus, co-founder of the Biomimicry Institute and founder of the Biomimicry Guild. Our current world is dangerously unsustainable. Greenhouse gas levels are reaching dangerous tipping points, climate change is a reality, freshwater shortages are [...]

Growing Popularity in Refurbished Cell Phones

Several months ago, 2nd Green Revolution ran a piece on “urban mining” in Japan, which described the country’s efforts to recycle metals found in many discarded electronics. I was reminded of it recently while reading a story on companies selling refurbished phones in the Wall Street Journal (“Entrepreneurs Find Gold in Used Phones”). While the [...]

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