Buying your next Green Car This past Tuesday, 20+ YVSC members and interested parties heard a presentation from Mike Ogburn of CLEER (Clean Energy Economy for the Region) about Buying your next Green Car and most specifically What works in a mountain community? If you missed this event, you can view Mike’s presentation here (PDF). [...]
Green Building Products: Panacea or Oxymoron?
January 28, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Last Tuesday David Adamson of EcoBuild Inc in Boulder Colorado gave a thorough and informational presentation on Green Building Products. If you missed that presentation, you can view his slideshow (powerpoint, PPT) here: http://www.yvsc.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/GB-products-Panacea-or-Oxymoron.pptx For more about David’s expertise and history, view the blogpost on him here: http://www.yvsc.org/green-building-products/
Who is Ozzie Zehner?
December 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment
By Suzie Romig for YVSC What’s better for the environment, everyone in Steamboat Springs who can afford one buying an electric car or more people in town taking advantage of the bike path? Or, is it all of the above? Author and university visiting scholar Ozzie Zehner, whose parents and brother live in Steamboat, will [...]
Drink Green and be Merry!
September 18, 2012 By Leave a Comment
No, it’s not an early St. Patty’s Day slogan… although it is a London-based idea. Since 2009 YVSC has been a part of an international group called Green Drinks and we have friends in 677 cities worldwide (and growing). Waaay back in 1989, at a pub in North London, a pack of green design blokes [...]
Talking Green Garden Tour huge success!
July 27, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Over 35 participants meandered the downtown streets of Steamboat with us this past Tuesday to visit with 2 residential garden owners and the community garden, while also listening to experts speak on the subjects of Permaculture, Water Conservation, and Vermiculture. If you missed this great day, TV18 was also in attendance and created this fabulous [...]
Auden Schendler gives Talking Green group Hope
January 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Yesterday’s Talking Green topic “Hope and Fear: Climate Change and the Meaning of Life” by Auden Schendler, Director of Sustainability at Aspen Skiing Company shed some light for the end of the tunnel. While flipping through gloomy slides of the statistics of the world’s increasing heat index, Schendler kept the talk casual and humorous, injecting [...]
2009-2011 Talking Green Archive
December 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
October 26, 2011: Reducing Energy Use Through Behavioral and Cultural Change by Dr. Jeni Cross, CSU and Stu Reeve, Energy Manager from Poudre School District Energy Management Graphic BOE Energy Conservation Update Organizational Innovation for Energy Conservation_Final Report Yampa Valley Sustainability Presentation September 27, 2011: Cozy & Warm – Improvements for Existing Homes by Bill [...]
