About every five years a new farm bill gets passed without much of the U.S. population knowing what happened. The truth is that the farm bill is rather secretive, and this year it keeps getting suggested they are going to secretly pass it. This is because now many groups are opposing the farm bill and [...]
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The Farm Bill Problem
November 24th, 2011 
Megan Stilley 
Posted in Agriculture, Economics, Featured Posts, Local Energy/Food, News, Op-Ed, Policy, Sustainability 
Tags: Environment, Food, Megan Stilley, Washington DC 
No Comments »Kids Say the Darndest Things
November 20th, 2011 Eric Wilson If you listen to kids, they can provide some incredible insight. Years ago there was the show “Kids Say the Darndest Things” hosted by Art Linkletter (and reprised a few years back with Bill Cosby as the emcee). Ken Robinson put it well in a talk for RSA. He brings up the concept of “divergent [...]
Bill Ritter Presentation: Clean Energy and the Environment in America
November 17th, 2011 Eric Wilson Earlier this week I attended a presentation by former Colorado Governor Bill Ritter. This is the second time I’ve heard Ritter speak, once while he was still in office and the other on Monday. Both presentations touched largely on the role of clean energy in the US economy. Ritter, who served one term, left office [...]
Your Guide to a Sustainable Thanksgiving
November 15th, 2011 Megan Stilley Every year American families sit down on the fourth Thursday of November and gorge themselves on anything and everything, including parades and football. It symbolizes the start of overeating, over-consuming, and general wastefulness for the next month. This is also called the holiday season with Thanksgiving, Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanza and New Years all within a month. Really, [...]
Posted in Agriculture, Featured Posts, Local Energy/Food, Sustainability Tags: Beer, Composting, Food, Megan Stilley, Organic, Waste No Comments »Is China Headed in the Right Direction?
November 10th, 2011 Chris DeArmond China may be one of the first countries that pops into your head when you think of clean technology, but its government has only just begun to recognize the environmental damage caused by two decades of unhinged economic growth. In a 2011 study, the World Bank found that 20 of the world’s 30 most polluted [...]
Posted in China, Featured Posts, Renewable Energy Tags: Chris DeArmond, Coal, Environment, Oil Consumption, Pollution, Solar Energy, Water, Wind Power No Comments »Site Visit: Denver Public School’s First LEED Gold Campus
November 8th, 2011 Eric Wilson A week and a half ago, I attended the US Green Building Council Colorado Chapter’s Green School Summit. For my notes on the conference, click here. Held on the 35-acre Evie Garrett Dennis E-12, early childhood through 12th grade, though there is also a 2 year program on the campus (for nursing and other career [...]
Posted in Energy Efficiency, Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Green Building, Renewable Energy, Site Visits Tags: Colorado, Denver, Food, Green Schools, LEED, Net Zero Energy, Photovoltaic No Comments »What’s Your Appropriate Use Policy?
November 6th, 2011 Eric Wilson This post is partially in memory of (Uncle) David Wilson, who would have turned 73 today. When I worked as a technology coordinator in a primary school, my boss and I had to develop the “Acceptable Use Policy” for technology. I want to bring that idea to transportation. We need an “Appropriate Use Policy” for [...]
Site Visit: EPA Region 8 Headquarters
November 3rd, 2011 Eric Wilson Located in Denver’s Lower Downtown (LoDo) neighborhood, the EPA’s region 8 headquarters occupies a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold certified commercial building which they moved into four years ago. Sitting at the corner of Wynkoop St and the 16th St. Mall, the building is adjacent to Union Station, Denver’s future home of [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Green Building, Site Visits Tags: Energy Star, EPA, Green Roof, LEED, Mass Transit, Photovoltaic No Comments »Radioactive Wolves
November 1st, 2011 Justin Manger “Hope you’ve been having good times in Japan. How’s the life/job been going recently? Hope you don’t have any radiation issues.” So began an email from a long-time friend who I hadn’t heard from in a while. I hope I don’t have any radiation issues either. The Japanese government and TEPCO, the electric company running [...]
7 Billion Humans, 1 Earth
October 30th, 2011 Justin Manger I was looking up something related to Brazil for work the other day on Google Maps and while glancing over the vast expanse of thick forests in the satellite view mode, had a rapid fire series of thoughts all related to sustainability. I thought about how enormous Brazil is in terms of land area and [...]
Posted in 2nd Green, Featured Posts, Justin Manger, Op-Ed, Sustainability Tags: 2nd Green Revolution, 7 Billion, Regenerative Economy No Comments »
