Photo by Jeff Kubina
In the midst of all that glitz, glamor, blinking, flashing lights, flushed wattage, excessive air-conditioning, and greenhouse gases galore, can we really make a gambling town an environmentally friendly town? The popular Rocky Mountain tourist attraction, Central City, in Colorado thinks that it can.
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Movement inside the bubble of plug-in vehicle technology known as “vehicle to grid” has been noted in Colorado since this past March, 2008. Xcel Energy in Boulder County has finally initiated their $150,000 funded Phase One of their plan to put the theory of vehicle to grid in practice under the watchful guise of four Toyota Prius plug-in hybrids.
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Using Technology to Alert Drivers to Animals on the Road
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The University of Colorado, home of the Big 12 team the Buffaloes, has launched the “Green Stampede”—an initiative designed to limit the environmental impact of their home stadium and road games. The Stampede is presented by Colorado based WhiteWave Foods Company, and will improve the sustainability of nearly every aspect of the gridiron. ...
Comedy Show Tackles Clean Energy
From the Earth to America environmental comedy show, through National Energy Wasting Day to our coverage of The Onion’s “Obligatory Green Issue”, we TreeHuggers are not a...
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One man. One veggie-oil powered car. Four months. 20,000 miles. Today Joe Connor, freelance sports-writer, leaves San Diego for his 3rd Annual Green Power Sports Tour, kicking off at a pre-season Raiders game in Bakersfield. Loaded down with a trunk, backseat and shotgun full of reserve veggie-oil, Connnor combines his two loves (sports and traveling), with promoting alternative-fuel vehicles.
Artist Rendering of the Park
Boulder to Get a 40 Acre-Bike Park
In Canada, tapping the tar sands has been called the most environmentally destructive project on the planet. In the United States, some equally not-so-eco-friendly technologies have been developed to extract oil from shale in Colorado. If the Interior Department has its way, exploiting U.S. oil shale is going to become less financially burdensome for oil companies. Don’t worry, the environmental impact will probably remain high.
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"A major component of the Democrats' energy legislation is, and the Democrats' answer to the energy crisis is, hold on, wait one minute, I'm not making this up, it is"promoting the use of the bicycle! Watch this extraordinary two minute video of Rep Patrick McHenry decrying "19th century technology for a 21st century problem."
In Colorado more recently, Sen. Josh Penry says <...
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