Colorado Transition Network

IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS ON COLORADO TRANSITION NETWORK

June 2010 Blog Posts (8)

Colorado Chicken Coops - A new and modern design



Important For Your Lifestyle

If you eat Local and Organic foods then you will enjoy having chickens in the backyard. Raising chickens is a great way to eat fresh and healthy eggs, protect the environment, improve community resiliency,

and teach our children about growing…

Continue

Added by Eric Millinger on June 29, 2010 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Maximizing Life: Restoring Natural Habitat

Biologists recognize that habitat destruction has the largest impact on endangering species (it is at the top of the famous "HIPPO" list). If we want to help maximize life in the Universe, giving it a decent place to live is a good start – especially if we took it away in the first place.



First we must preserve habitat, which mostly translates into stopping land “development” (such as burning trees to grow crops, building… Continue

Added by Brad Jarvis on June 23, 2010 at 6:44pm — No Comments

Review of "Eaarth"

The first part of Bill McKibben's new book "Eaarth" will scare the daylights out of anyone who isn't blinded by oil company hype or willful ignorance. It even scared me, and I already had some pretty dark ideas about the future. Global warming is here, it's irreversible, and it's going to get a lot worse very quickly. Deniers like to point out that science isn't always right, and in this case they're correct; the scale and progression of the changes we have made to our planet have been… Continue

Added by Brad Jarvis on June 19, 2010 at 5:53pm — No Comments

I had a dream.



On the night of 6/15/2010, I had a dream. Not particularly notable for some, but for me it was, and remains, a very unusual event because I remembered the dream. I basically never remember my dreams. I've been told that all people dream, including me, and I can sometimes remember a snippet of a dream (usually only for a few minutes just after I awake) then it's gone ... forever. But this dream is different, in that, not…

Continue

Added by Donald Studinski on June 17, 2010 at 1:16am — 9 Comments

Fascinating article(s) on making a living with urban farming



I found the two articles below to be really interesting discussions of the economic challenges of scaling up community-oriented gardens & farms, and some of the various ideas people are kicking around to bring more revenue in (obviously, in sustainable and responsible ways) - Two I thought particularly interesting were in the areas of education and in helping people get started with organic agriculture in their own yards. …



Continue

Added by David Olivero on June 5, 2010 at 2:34pm — No Comments

Transitions are HARD... May I help make it easier?

Here’s how… www.lovinglocalliving.com

So you want to become a locavore? You want to try to sustain yourself by eating locally grown foods? Now that market produce is coming in find more recipes here with ingredients from local sources and

where to get them in the Denver metro area. Market vendors are welcome

to contact me to let me…

Continue

Added by Terri Clauss on June 3, 2010 at 8:47am — No Comments

Transitions are HARD... May I help make it easier?

Here’s how… www.lovinglocalliving.com

So you want to become a locavore? You want to try to sustain yourself by eating locally grown foods? Now that market produce is coming in find more recipes here with ingredients from local sources and

where to get them in the Denver metro area. Market vendors are welcome

to contact me to let me…

Continue

Added by Terri Clauss on June 3, 2010 at 8:47am — No Comments

Online schooling - a green option?

Continue

Added by Ellen Jacobs on June 2, 2010 at 1:30am — No Comments

Blog Topics by Tags

Monthly Archives

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

Facing challenges of peak oil, climate change and zero waste

Videos

  • Add Videos
  • View All

Photos

  • Add Photos
  • View All

© 2013   Created by Michael Brownlee.   Powered by

Badges  |  Report an Issue  |  Terms of Service