rssSnowless ski race helps connect dots between climate change, real problems
By Troy Hooper |
05.07.12 | 9:21 am
Gnarly terrain greeted a group of climate change activists in Aspen over the weekend.
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Aspen divorces U.S. Chamber of Commerce over disagreement about climate change
By Troy Hooper |
04.27.12 | 7:03 am
Aspen isn’t the first to sever ties with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over political differences. One of the last to do it, Homer, Alaska, made national headlines when its chamber canceled its membership.
Endless summer: Ski resorts struggle to keep terrain open in new climate change frontier
By Troy Hooper |
03.28.12 | 12:41 pm
ASPEN — Flowers are blooming along the sidewalks. Snow on the mountains is melting fast. Residents here aren’t sure whether to ski or golf. But most of them are certain of one thing: Climate change is for real.
Snow drought forces Colorado to face frightening new climate-change reality
By David O. Williams |
01.09.12 | 9:10 am
Just a year after record snowfall throughout much of the Rocky Mountain West, the region is locked in a snow drought not seen since Jimmy Carter surrendered the White House to Ronald Reagan in the early 1980s. The record dry conditions have lawmakers and industry observers extremely concerned about looming water shortages and wildfire danger.
Pro snow riders bumming out over GOP’s assault on the EPA and climate science
By Troy Hooper |
09.14.11 | 6:28 am
A trio of professional snow shredders are charging the biggest hill in
Washington, D.C., this week. Their message: Congress is getting too radical on Capitol Hill.
Mountain rural electric co-op flips to ‘supermajority of progressives’
By David O. Williams |
06.07.11 | 7:36 am
The director of sustainability for Aspen Skiing Company on Monday trumpeted the results of a rural electric association board election that saw the local co-op flip to “a supermajority of progressives who support clean energy and energy efficiency, stable prices and fiscal prudence.”
Rural electric co-op election in Vail, Aspen area sparks huge candidate turnout
By David O. Williams |
05.16.11 | 2:20 pm
An unprecedented nine candidates are running for two seats on the board of Holy Cross Energy, a rural electric co-op with 55,000 members on Colorado’s Western Slope. Its coverage area includes two of the biggest players in the nation’s ski industry: Aspen and Vail.
Holy Cross electric co-op prez draws heat for backing board incumbents
By David O. Williams |
06.04.10 | 8:16 am
A rural electric co-op board president who last year riled environmentalists by playing down climate change right before board elections has once again stirred controversy. Holy Cross Energy board president Tom Turnbull wrote a letter posted in the Vail Daily last week in which he backed incumbent board members Bob Starodoj and Mike Glass in an election to be decided Saturday at HCE’s annual meeting in Glenwood Springs.
Colorado 2022 Olympics, because elevation matters
By David O. Williams |
04.09.10 | 11:30 am
A game a lot of the jaded journalists covering the Olympic Winter Games like to engage in is coining the most derogatory nickname describing the shortcomings of the host city or venue. In Italy in 2006, for example, the purpose-built (by Fiat) and frankly quite hideous ski town of Sestriere became “Sewerstriere” or “Disastriere.”
Aspen’s green guru takes on critics, touts new book on sustainability
By David O. Williams |
02.23.09 | 10:18 am
Can Colorado’s ski industry, which markets to millionaires who jet in on fuel-guzzling Gulfstreams, inhabit 10,000-square-foot starter castles two weeks a year, ski on artificial snow and walk on snow-melted streets, in any way lay claim to being a green leader?
