Earth Day always falls on the week when Steamboat’s pretty empty, but that shouldn’t stop all of us from doing our part for Mother Earth! When you travel, we urge you to still conserve – we’re all connected, and our water and energy consumptions and our carbon output are all still important things to maintain [...]
What we learned from Sustainability Manager Peter Brandom
February 16, 2013 By 1 Comment
During his short tenure as Sustainability Manager for the City of Hillsboro, Oregon, a rural, growing community just west of Portland in what is nicknamed the Silicon Forest, Peter Brandom has been working hard to achieve attainable goals, set higher standards, and praise the work that the city departments have already done. Brandom’s two sessions [...]
Recycling Batteries
January 23, 2013 By 1 Comment
Reprinted from HomeLink Magazine Emilie Rogers, Program Administrator of Yampa Valley Recycles We have become a society of convenience. Many modern day conveniences are electronic devices which require batteries. We all wonder what to do with the batteries when they expire. Alkaline batteries (AA, AAA, C, D, and 9V) have not contained mercury for [...]
Recycle your Christmas Tree at the Ice Arena through January 2013
January 3, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Now through the month of January trees may be dropped off anytime at the Northeast corner of Howelsen Ice Arena parking lot. Please remove all tinsels, lights, nails, decorations, etc. Please NO WREATHS. The resulting mulch will be given to residents and used in City Parks. Call Ernie Jenkins, Parks Supervisor at 970-879-4300 with any [...]
Member petition for recycling deposit
December 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment
from member and recycling enthusiast Allison Andrews Hi, There is currently a lack of economic incentive for individuals and small business owners to recycle in Colorado and as a result many recyclables get sent to local landfills. The effects of this being that our landfills fill up faster and we take up more land–a limited [...]
National Geographic Magazine archive for free
November 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
One of our board members is letting go of his archive of National Geographic Magazine from 1993 to present and would love to have it go to someone who will either use it for education or their personal library instead of recycling it! Please contact info@yvsc.org if you can make use of this fabulous resource!
2012 Green Building Tour Teasers!
October 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Two green homes in the Fairview neighborhood of Steamboat Springs were selected for pre-tour teasers, only to be shown on YVSC’s YouTube Channel. We visited the first of these homes today to highlight the great urban farming, energy efficiency, and DIY solutions this home offers. View the video now at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE29CFDeBhs Home #1 is the [...]
Statistics show success – Drop Off Day
October 9, 2012 By 1 Comment
Yampa Valley Sustainability Council and Yampa Valley Recycles is pleased to announce that our annual public service event, the Community Recycles Drop Off Day, was a huge success on Saturday October 6th, 2012! 425 cars (68% City and 32% County residents) came through the Howelsen Hill drop off location, diverting enormous amounts of waste from [...]
Winterize your garden with TwinGro!
October 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment
If you haven’t ordered some already, you can pick up a small load of TwinGro compost (locally-formulated with local ingredients!) at the Community Recycles Drop-Off Day tomorrow! TwinGro Compost will be for sale, dirt cheap, so bring a bucket to capture some of this brown gold for mixing into your garden’s soil through winter; it’ll [...]
Costume Swap at SSHS – Free costumes!
October 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Steamboat Springs High School will be hosting it’s 2nd Annual Green Halloween Costume Swap for kids! The event will take place in conjunction with the Pumpkin Float at Steamboat Springs Health & Rec Center on Sunday, October 14, 2012 from 2-4pm. We have lots of great costumes from infant through Middle School sizes. COSTUMES ARE [...]
