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Position: Thinking Green
With spring full bore upon us, it’s hard not to cast an envious eye toward the high country and start daydreaming about alpine wildflower hikes. One favorite destination for many is Ice Lake Basin...
DATE: May 19, 2018 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
This year’s La Plata Electric Association board election is a pivotal referendum on the future of our electric supply. Are co-op members happy with the status quo, being joined at the hip for the...
DATE: April 21, 2018 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
Five years versus five days. That succinctly describes the different weights accorded to constituents raising objections to expanded oil and gas leasing in landscapes with special circumstances. As...
DATE: March 17, 2018 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
It’s a challenging time for La Plata Electric Association. The electric utility world is undergoing a classic technology disruption, where rapid advances threaten to upend decades-old business...
DATE: Feb. 18, 2018 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
It might be easy to chuckle at the silliness of the conspiracy theorists convinced the United Nations is scheming with La Plata County to forcibly relocate rural folks into urban housing centers....
DATE: Jan. 21, 2018 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
Last week’s events punctuated by the Trump administration’s cavalier abandonment of a century’s worth of American conservation practice is greatly discouraging. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke wiped...
DATE: Dec. 16, 2017 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
With the onset of winter, it’s never too early to daydream of next year’s adventures. Nowhere compares with the raw, spontaneous wildness of Alaska’s primeval landscapes teeming with abundant...
DATE: Nov. 18, 2017 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
Last week, the House of Representatives Natural Resources Committee passed a bill to prevent presidents from creating national monuments. It would severely limit the future preservation of many...
DATE: Oct. 20, 2017 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
As we stand transfixed by the enormously powerful hurricanes churning across the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, one can’t help but think about our place in the climate-change continuum. Here in the...
DATE: Sept. 15, 2017 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
A few weeks ago, we sent forth our champion with bated breath and hopeful expectations to plead our case before Tri-State, to please allow us to generate more electricity locally here at home in La...
DATE: Aug. 18, 2017 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
Waiving rules to prevent methane pollution. Stripping wetlands of protection under the Clean Water Act. Throwing out restrictions against strip-mining mountaintops and dumping the spoils into...
DATE: July 14, 2017 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
“It’s all about the economics,” the expert said. “Technologies have improved to make other forms of energy less expensive than coal.” One might figure sure, that’s some tree-hugging...
DATE: June 16, 2017 | COLUMN: Thinking Green
The homeless population at Purple Cliffs now have a kitchen, running water, bathrooms and hand sanitizer. They made a group decision not to leave the camp whenever possible due to the Coronavirus . They even have a mini-government growing. People not at the camp are having a different experience.
