Tag: Colorado

  • Rocky Mountain Folk School

    Rocky Mountain Folk School

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    In our smartphone world of instant technological results, many find themselves longing for the classic skills and more reflective pastimes of days gone by. Rocky Mountain Folk School, located in beautiful Grand Lake, Colorado provides people with the opportunity to work with their hands “long enough to get lost in a creative moment.” For those…

  • Eco-Wrapping Paper Grows Vegetables

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    Andri Antoniades introduces Eden’s Paper – a gift wrap that grows organic vegetables. There are plenty of sustainable options for wrapping your presents this holiday season, but none are quite as delicious as the type that grows organic vegetables.  Designed by U.K.-based creative agency BEAF, the colorful wrap is made from 100 percent recycled paper and decorated…

  • Campaign for Local Power

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    For more information on how you can help this amazing nonprofit win, you could go here. And you might want toLike New Era Colorado on Facebook if you want to see their ongoing progress. UPDATE (9/3/2013, 12 p.m. ET): New Era Colorado Executive Director Stephen Fenberg just emailed me to say: “The response from everyone across the country…

  • Power generated from community solar facilities spans more than half of all customers in Colorado

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    A staff reporter at The Boulder iJournal gives details about a new power purchase agreement between community-owned solar developer Clean Energy Collective and the Yampa Valley Electric Association.  The Association intends to purchase up to a 500 kilowatts of renewable energy from the Cooperative, a community owned solar company based in northern Colorado: Yampa Valley Electric Association ,…