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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2012 Tour de Fat Dates Announced
March 27th, 2012 
Eric Wilson 
Posted in Eric Wilson, News, Transportation 
Tags: Bicycles, Bike Sharing, California, Denver, Fort Collins, Los Angeles, Minnesota, New Belgium Brewery, Video, Washington DC 
No Comments »New Belgium Brewery Announces 2011 Tour de Fat Dates
May 16th, 2011 Eric Wilson Following up on Tours from previous years, New Belgium has announced the dates and locations of the 2011 Tour de Fat. For those who do not know about New Belgium’s Tour, it is a festival on wheels. Here are the “Ten Commandments” of the Tour. 1. Put no means of transport before thy bike 2. [...]
NRDC Names Seattle as America’s Greenest City
March 28th, 2011 Eric Wilson The National Resource Defense Council (NRDC) has released their ranking of the top 15 greenest American cities in three different categories. In order to compile the list, the NRDC considered the following areas: Standard of Living, Green Building, Air Quality, Environmental Standards and Participation, Transportation, Recycling, Green Space, Energy Production and Conservation, and Water Quality. [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Green Building, Recylcing, Sustainability, Transportation Tags: California, Denver, Environment, EPA, Florida, Fort Collins, Los Angeles, Minnesota, NRDC, Portland-Oregon No Comments »Smart Grid Project Starts Up in Fort Collins
January 18th, 2011 Eric Wilson As part of the Fort ZED (which stands for Zero Energy District) project we first mentioned nearly two years ago, Fort Collins, Colorado implemented a smart grid component of the city’s “Zero Energy District” plan. Former Governor Bill Ritter officially kicked off the program earlier this month before exiting office. Colorado Public Radio’s Colorado Matters [...]
Site Visit: Odell Brewing, Adding to the List of Sustainable Breweries
December 27th, 2010 Eric Wilson The proliferation of breweries in Colorado is truly amazing. Growth in the industry has been explosive in the last twenty years. According to Rocky Mountain Brewing News there are currently 90 breweries in Colorado. The tour guide stated that were only 2 breweries in Colorado before Odell. In 1989, Odell Brewing started fermenting their flagship [...]
Colorado Front Range Completes Initial High Speed Rail Study
March 31st, 2010 Eric Wilson With the awarding of billions of dollars from the stimulus bill to various big high speed rail projects across the nation, several smaller studies have been conducted on the feasibility of constructing and running faster train lines. The Rocky Mountain Rail Authority – “a multi-jurisdictional government body comprised of 52 Colorado cities, towns, counties and [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Transportation Tags: Colorado, Denver, Fort Collins, High Speed Rail, Stimulus Bill, Trains No Comments »Rocky Mountain Sustainable Living Fair in Fort Collins, CO Sept. 19th & 20th
September 17th, 2009 Eric Wilson As listed on our green events calendar, the Rocky Mountain Sustainable Living Fair will take place this weekend in Fort Collins, CO. The Rocky Mountain Sustainable Living Association (RMSLA) is a “Fort Collins, Colorado based non-profit organization committed to applying our vision and expertise toward a sustainable future for all.” The 10th annual fair will [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Sustainability Tags: Calendar, Colorado, Fort Collins, Green Event, Waste No Comments »Colorado State University Pushes Forward on Clean Energy
August 12th, 2009 Eric Wilson With a recent announcement that a 2-megawatt solar installation is planned for Colorado State University’s Foothills Campus this fall, the school will add to its already impressive clean energy portfolio. Colorado State University (CSU) already has a number of clean energy and conservation projects currently operational. The new installation “will generate enough power to meet [...]
Smart Grid Projects Blossom Around the Country
July 28th, 2009 Justin Manger Backed by more than $47 million in stimulus funds, the Department of Energy announced funding for eight projects in seven states to “help accelerate the development and implementation of a modernized and secure electrical grid, a critical piece in delivering renewable energy to American consumers and ensuring an effective, reliable and efficient electricity system across [...]
Thin-Film Photovoltaic Cells Now in Production at Abound Solar
April 15th, 2009 Eric Wilson As an example of the direct impact of university research on the potential for leadership in the clean energy economy, work completed over the last several years at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado has led to the formation of Abound Solar. Examiner.com reports that the company “was born in the bowels of Colorado [...]
Posted in Clean Technology, Eric Wilson Tags: Colorado, Fort Collins, Photovoltaic, Renewable Energy, Solar Energy No Comments »
