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 [...]
Salvage the Old Barn on 13th!
August 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Come help tear down and salvage the final remains of the Old Ranch on 13th! The Autism Foundation Greenhouse is soon to be built on this land, and all the old ranch wood, furniture, roof, etc is being torn down this week. Head past the Bus Depot on 13th and turn into the Precision Repair [...]
Routt County Cleaned Up
May 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Over 100 locals registered for the Routt County Cleanup Day and cleaned up 30 miles of county highway this week, with over 50 showing up to clean today despite some inclement weather and multiple in-town events, beating last year’s turnout by far! The event was hosted by Routt County Environmental Health, a huge thanks to [...]
Learn How to Go Zero!
April 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment
This May 8th and 9th from 10am-12pm Zero Waste Coordinator Carol Lacey will be training locals on how to “Go Zero.” Businesses and individuals are invited to come learn how to make their home or work Zero Waste and how to host their own Zero Waste Event, what supplies to order, how to coordinate compost [...]
2010 January – March Talking Green
January 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment
January 26 2010 – YVSC Kick Off – Volunteer Opportunities, Collaborative Groups February 23 2010 – Zero Waste – How does it work and why? March 23 – 2010 – Colorado Carbon Fund
