Progress is a relative thing, its meaning and measure differing depending on people, place, circumstances and era. What one generation sees as a proud achievement, the next may look at quite differently. This is a theme that comes up increasingly in contemporary discussions of “how the West was won,” especially on the topic of development. The engineering [...]
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Tearing Down a Highway to Rebuild a Stream
April 22nd, 2013 
Sean Connell 
Posted in Site Visits, Sustainable Development, Uncategorized 
Tags: Cheonggyecheon, Environment, Green Growth, livability, Sean Connell, Seoul, South Korea 
No Comments »Hues of Green in Korea
April 15th, 2013 Sean Connell South Korea’s capital city of Seoul, including its surrounding urban area sprawling across the wide Han River, is home to more than 25 million people and by some estimates the world’s second largest metropolis. It is also a scant 52 kilometers south of the world’s most heavily fortified border–the Demilitarized Zone separating South Korea from North [...]
Posted in Policy, Site Visits, Sustainability Tags: Environment, Green Growth, Korea, Sean Connell No Comments »Review: Whole Foods
April 9th, 2013 Megan Stilley 
Whole Foods is a popular, big chain, natural grocery store. They offer a large selection of organic produce and often have sales on it. They also offer sustainable meat options. They even have a welfare grade on their meat to tell you how the animals were raised. They are going to require GMO labeling on [...]
Review: Watercourse Foods
March 6th, 2013 Megan Stilley 
Watercourse Foods is a restaurant in Denver, CO. It is a great place to go for a bite to eat, especially since it only serves vegetarian/vegan options. It is nice dining there because there is no real deciphering the menu for a vegetarian/vegan. Often when eating out vegetarians have to scan the menu to find [...]
Posted in 2nd Green, Local Energy/Food, Reviews, Site Visits, Sustainability Tags: Denver, Food, Megan Stilley No Comments »Local Solutions to Managing Environmental Complexity: The Adopt-a-Stream Foundation (Part 3)
February 21st, 2013 Sean Connell Following up on two previous posts about the the Adopt-a-Stream Foundation and its role in promoting environmental education and best practices in watershed management, what sets the organization apart from others active in the Pacific Northwest (and beyond) in environmental education and watershed stewardship? How might its experiences offer models to organizations and stakeholders, not only those involved in [...]
The Yards Brewery
January 26th, 2013 Mac Maloney 
Company Like many major urban areas on the East Coast, Philadelphia has a long tradition of brewing dating back to America’s Founding Fathers. Although most its breweries did not survive prohibition, Philadelphia, and the surrounding area, has recently given rise to a number of top-tier breweries including, Victory, Sly Fox, Flying Fish (in New Jersey), [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Local Energy/Food, Reviews, Revolutionary Spirits, Site Visits Tags: Mac Maloney No Comments »Site Visit: MUSE School (CA)
May 8th, 2012 Eric Wilson Last month I had the opportunity to visit the MUSE School in Southern California. Located in a canyon between Calabasas and Malibu, the setting for the school is idyllic. Founded in 2006 by Suzy Amis Cameron and her sister Rebecca Amis, this marks the first year on the current campus, a 22 acre spread that [...]
Out with the New in with the Old
January 8th, 2012 Eric Wilson A few months back I had the opportunity to tour three LEED certified projects on three consecutive days. All three projects achieved LEED gold and were located in the greater Denver area. The following op-ed is a bit of a reflection on these visits and what it means to build green. They are listed in [...]
Posted in Energy Efficiency, Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Green Building, Op-Ed, Recylcing, Site Visits Tags: Denver, EPA, LEED, Waste 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, Gardens, Green Schools, LEED, Net Zero Energy, Photovoltaic No Comments »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 »
