Partnerships, Faculty, and Student-Faculty supported projects

July 22, 2020

Per-sistence

Are forever chemicals a forever problem? From the cover-up to the stories of linked health issues, follow the flow of PFAS into Fountain Creek Watershed and our bodies Sam Sanson’s award winning podcast Per-sistence is an informative and smart audio journey. Sanson investigates how Colorado Springs residents pushed the Environmental Protection Agency to clean up…

Fissure

Fissure takes as its point of departure the moment of the Trinity nuclear bomb test in the Jornada del Muerto desert in southern New Mexico on July 16, 1945 at 05:29; is an exploration, through sculptural means, its impact on landscape, thought and memory. Fissure, as a conceptual theme, is a series of artworks that examines…

July 16, 2020

Welcome to Rocky Mountain Off Grid

Hannah Stoll wanted to share the stories of interesting, unique people, teach listeners about the many ways people are living sustainably off-grid, and communicate the challenges and opposition faced by those who choose this way of life. In a seven episode series, we hear from people living off grid on Colorado’s Front Range and a…

July 16, 2020

Updated: What you need to know about a ballot effort to bring wolves back to Colorado

Should voters make this call of the wild? Colorado Independent January 6, 2020 By Alesandra Tejeda Editor’s note: This story originally was published on Nov. 17, 2019. On Tuesday, Dec. 10, the Rocky Mountain Wolf Action Fund submitted to the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office what it said are more than 200,000 signatures to place…

July 15, 2020

Defining Clean Water: Understanding the Politics of PFAS in the Fountain Valley and Beyond.

During Summer 2019 the State of the Rockies funded Colorado College undergraduate Max Kronstadt (Political Science, ’20) in his work with the Fountain Valley Water Project – a research group dedicated to investigating a local case of PFAS pollution in south Colorado Springs. Working with CC Professors Eli Fahrenkrug and Tyler Cornelius, Max spent ten…

July 9, 2020

Rockies and Journalism Institute partner-up: offer students a glimpse at how a changing climate is changing lives in the region

In partnership with the Colorado College Journalism Institute, a course in journalistic method was taught last fall by an on-the-ground professional Denver Post reporter. Students were asked to employ journalism strategies to investigate and report on how climate change in the Rocky Mountain West influences our lives. The Class Last fall, State of the Rockies…