AltWeeklies Wire
Why Isn't Colorado Springs Leading the Way in Renewable Energy?new
This year, Colorado Springs Utilities set aside $1.5 million for solar rebates. The problem is, even with a rebate, your typical church, school or other nonprofit can't afford the up-front cost of a system. For-profit businesses -- which can qualify for federal grants -- are the only ones that might.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Pam Zubeck |
04-21-2011 |
Environment
Van Jones: Energy starnew
"I think the more we recognize that everything that's good for the environment is a job, the more people will be interested."
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
02-28-2011 |
Environment
Tags: Van Jones, Green Collar Economy
Making an Impressionnew
Fort Carson tanks breach Pinon Canyon historic sites.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Pam Zubeck |
01-18-2011 |
Environment
Dispelling The Top 10 Arguments of Climate Change Skepticsnew
Snow in the South, ice gain in Antarctica and scientists seemingly fudging climate data: Is the global warming debate over? Definitely. But skeptics aren't on the winning side.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Stephanie Rogers |
12-27-2010 |
Environment
Back From The Brinknew
Through fire and near-death budget experiences, Colorado Springs nature centers find ways to keep growing.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Rhonda Van Pelt |
11-30-2010 |
Environment
Tags: Todd Marts
Hot-button Issues at AFAnew
The Air Force Academy releases its climate survey and acknowledges plenty of work to do.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Pam Zubeck |
11-05-2010 |
Environment
How Tilapia and Basil Can Heal the Planetnew
A look at one Colorado Springs aquaponics operation by "Alligator Joe" Cannon, who also wrestles alligators.
Colorado Springs Independent |
J. Adrian Stanley |
04-22-2010 |
Environment
Tags: Aquaponics
Outgoing NORAD Gen. Warns That Turbines Pose a National Security Threatnew
Last month, Gen. Gene Renuart told the House Armed Services Committee that wind farms pose problems for the radar that keeps America safe from air and space threats.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Pam Zubeck |
04-15-2010 |
Environment
A Colorado Town Wants Fewer Trash Trucks and More Recyclingnew
For two years, Teri Christman has been battling the garbage trucks that roar through her town. She's fighting to change city law so that only one trash company can operate in Manitou, and she wants that company to also provide single-stream recycling to every home.
Colorado Springs Independent |
J. Adrian Stanley |
03-11-2010 |
Environment
Poor and Homeless People May Grow Food in Downtown's Oft-Abused Parknew
Colorado Springs nonprofits hope to grow food that will be tended by homeless people, poor folks and runaway teenagers, with all of it going to feed the hungry.
Colorado Springs Independent |
J. Adrian Stanley |
02-11-2010 |
Environment
Lawmakers Look to Shake Up the Recycling World, With Tons of Tires Nearbynew
"Our goal is to break even," Chris Houtchens says, describing the financial tightrope he walks each day so that the company he runs with his father, American Tire Exchange, can turn a profit selling usable tires in the states or in Mexico.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Anthony Lane |
02-09-2010 |
Environment
Charting the Meltdown: James Balog's Glacier Photographynew
What James Balog saw on his National Geographic shoots led him to launch the Extreme Ice Survey. The project now has 33 cameras set up to take hourly pictures at glaciers in Greenland, Iceland, Alaska and the Rocky Mountains.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Edie Adelstein and Anthony Lane |
01-28-2010 |
Environment
Advocates Hope That With Incentives, Someone Will Save the Prairie Dogsnew
Though prairie dogs are in contention for federal listing as a threatened or endangered species, Crawford worries this group could soon die under heavy equipment when the Milton E. Proby Parkway is built.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Anthony Lane |
08-27-2009 |
Environment
From Car Seats to Condoms, Nasty Chemical Compounds Have Invaded Our Livesnew
Chemicals found in computer screens and car seats, shower curtains and shampoo, plastic water bottles and prophylactics are skewing our odds against cancers and causing developmental delays and reproductive roadblocks, including declining sperm counts.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Josh Zaffos |
06-17-2008 |
Environment
SOS: Save Our Snownew
As powder melts and ice disappears, winter athletes start to fight global warming.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Brita Belli |
02-12-2008 |
Environment
