As the Denver Zoo prepares to open its latest addition, a 10 acre exhibit dedicated to the Asian Tropics, they have incorporated a number of eco-conscious features. As part of the new construction, the entire complex is striving for LEED certification, the first large animal exhibit facility in the nation to be certified as such. In [...]
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Denver Zoo Lays Claim to Greenest in Country
May 24th, 2012 
Eric Wilson 2012 Tour de Fat Dates Announced
March 27th, 2012 Eric Wilson This year’s Tour de Fat, New Belgium Brewing’s celebration of the bike, has announced its 2012 dates and locations. Two new cities have been added. Washington, DC and Atlanta, GA bring the total number of cities involved to 15. See the full list below. Dates and locations are also available on our calendar. 2012 marks [...]
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Tags: Bicycles, Bike Sharing, California, Denver, Fort Collins, Los Angeles, Minnesota, New Belgium Brewery, Video, Washington DC 
No Comments »Green Schools National Conference Wrap-Up
March 3rd, 2012 Eric Wilson I recently attended the 2nd “annual” Green Schools National Conference (in Denver, CO). I say annual in quotation marks since the first one took place in 2010, albeit late in the year. Unfortunately I did not attend the inaugural conference (I was at AASHE’s national conference, which took place a few days before hand). During [...]
Posted in Conferences, Education, Eric Wilson Tags: Denver, Florida, Green Schools, Washington DC No Comments »Five Friday Facts: Denver Bike Sharing
March 2nd, 2012 Eric Wilson Last week’s Five Friday Facts profiled some of the statistics related to Washington D.C.’s bike sharing program. This week we take a look at Denver’s program (B Cycle), which reopens for business on Monday, March 12th. 202,731: Number of rides in 2011, compared to 102,981 rides in 2010 42,318: Short term membership (24-hour kiosk, 24-hour [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Five Friday Facts, Transportation Tags: Bike Sharing, Denver, Mass Transit, Washington DC No Comments »Water Reclamation Given Thumbs Up
February 20th, 2012 Eric Wilson NEWater, Singapore’s treated wastewater that is used to provide drinking water to the residents of this island nation, has been around for more than a decade. (See the most recent Five Friday Facts for more information). In the United States though, the idea of incorporating water that comes from treatment plants has yet to catch [...]
Posted in Clean Technology, Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, News Tags: California, Chemicals, Denver, Elizabeth Royte, Wastewater, Water No Comments »February 2012 Clean Energy and Sustainability Events
February 1st, 2012 Eric Wilson With an extra day this year, February gets its quadrennial opportunity to step up and fill its 29 days with as many events as possible. With that in mind, there are a number of domestic events jammed into February. These include two here in Denver, one of which I will attend at the end of [...]
Posted in Agriculture, Conferences, Education, Eric Wilson Tags: Calendar, California, Denver, Film Series, Florida, Organic, Photovoltaic, Solar Energy No Comments »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 »New Year’s Resolutions
January 6th, 2012 Megan Stilley For the past few years I have been trying to take steps to be more sustainable. It started when I was an undergraduate and joined the campus environmental group. Recycling has always been a habit, so it wasn’t something I had to change. I did begin riding my bike and walking everywhere possible; a college [...]
Posted in Behavior, Green Products, Recylcing Tags: Cloth Diapers, Denver, Food, Megan Stilley, Toilet, Water Conservation No Comments »Last Year Denver International Airport Added Another 1.6 MW of Solar
December 31st, 2011 Eric Wilson Although the project was completed last year, the addition of 1.6 MW of solar panels to the 2 MW system that provides roughly half the energy needed to power the Denver International Airport (DIA) tram system demonstrates the role solar can have in a carbon economy. The large array partially “offset[s] the environmental and monetary [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Renewable Energy Tags: Bio-fuels, Denver, Electricity Generation, Natural Gas, Solar Energy, Xcel Energy No Comments »USDA Doles out 10 Grants for People’s Gardens
November 14th, 2011 Eric Wilson While small compared to subsidies for corn, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced nearly three-quarters of a million dollars in grants “to support 155 People’s Gardens in neighborhoods” throughout the United States. 10 programs were awarded sums ranging from $5,000 to $150,000. For a complete accounting of the recipients and award denominations, see [...]
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