By Emily Stamper Auden Schendler is the vice president of sustainability at the Aspen Skiing Company. He’s passionate about climate change. And he acknowleges significant waste in his industry, which caters to skiers who use carbon to fly across the world for skiing and still relies partly on coal-generated electricity to power ski lifts. Skiers come…
By Emily Stamper Crested Butte tourism association director and former ski company chief John Norton lives in a gorgeous home at the top of a mountain valley, where he contends business overall can benefit from climate warming, which may be pushing more visitors toward the relatively habitable conditions here. Norton calls his energy-efficient abode the…
By Emily Stamper A reporter in my class, Johnna Geick, burst out into tears as Christine Canaly discussed her feelings on climate change and the environment. We had been traveling around the San Luis Valley for four days interviewing people on how climate change has affected their lives. The outlooks we had been hearing on…
By Emily Stamper The San Luis Valley is unbelievably beautiful. It is the kind of place you put on a postcard. The kind of place you wish you could live, but always make excuses for why you can’t. It is 80,000 square miles and only has 50,000 residents…making it a hub for meditation retreats (20,000…
By Emily Stamper It is common at Colorado College to see students reducing their carbon footprint in small and numerous ways. In Ben Khaghani and Ethan Hall’s eight-person, three story apartment on East campus, you will find a compost bin under the table that holds their homegrown sprouts, more skateboards than people and that arc…
By Emily Stamper Five men and a woman sat inside the 1925 boiler room at the Colorado Springs’ Coal-Fired Power Plant, seemingly excited to share their experience. Each held a plastic cup of filtered water. One of them, plant manager Ian Gavin, got his start in nuclear power school. He then moved to the coal…
