Tag: Sustainability
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Cooking with: CMC chef Joseph Lentz
This article was published in the Steamboat Pilot and Today. By Scott Franz. Cameron Poole still remembers when Colorado Mountain College’s cafeteria was more, well, college-like. “It had a good salad bar, but we were always having french fries, grilled cheese and chicken nuggets,” Poole says. Those days are long gone. As college kids have…
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Call for Entries: First Annual Creative Expressions of Sustainability Award
CMC is pleased to announce an all-media call to visual artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers for the first Creative Expressions of Sustainability Award. Works selected will be displayed at the Sustainability Conference, which takes place April 21 and 22, 2016 at the CMC Steamboat Springs campus. Juried by a panel of faculty, students, and staff,…
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Rachel Carson Council Campus Dispatch features CMC sustainability studies faculty
Colorado Mountain College faculty Leslie Gumbrecht and Cynthia Zyzda were featured in the December, 2015 issue of the Rachel Carson Council Campus Dispatch. The article focused on a collaborative and interdisciplinary class they teach at the college. A copy of the article is reprinted below. Colorado Mountain College Associate Professor of English Leslie Gumbrecht and…
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Carbondale couple break even on $75,000 Tesla
This article was published in the Glenwood Post Independent. By Heather McGregor/Clean Energy Economy News Craig and Colleen Farnum of Carbondale are a middle-class couple with professional jobs, a mortgage, school loans and a 9-month-old daughter. They are also the owners of a Tesla Model S all-electric car, which has a 250-mile range and cost…
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Solar workshops planned for governments
CMC Rifle to host workshop on controlling costs with solar Libraries, schools, water plants and town halls in western Colorado are cutting their electrical energy costs by installing solar arrays. Two free workshops will explain how more governments and special districts can get started using solar to cut energy costs. The “Control Your Energy Costs…
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Sustainable Summer
CMC recently held sustainability days at four campus locations and at its central administration offices. Events featured speakers, sustainability studies students’ capstone presentations, locally-sourced food, and even, at one event, a chicken named Speckles. Two events also featured a Sustainability Pledge Photo Booth: Students, community members, faculty and staff wrote down one green act they…
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In solar energy, Rifle shines most brightly
This article was published in the Glenwood Post Independent. By Randy Essex. In at least one way, Honolulu’s got nothing on Rifle. Honolulu, coping with Hawaii’s high costs to import petroleum products, leads major American cities in solar power generated per person, at 265 watts. It’s far ahead of No. 2 San Jose, California, which…
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CMC Sustainability Days
Last year, CMC held an awesome college-wide sustainability conference in Steamboat. This year, each campus will hold their own mini-conferences to celebrate their successes and raise awareness about the green sustainability efforts CMC is engaged in college wide. Below is a schedule and brief sum-up of various campus events. CMC Steamboat Springs: April 14, 4:30 –…
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World renowned environmentalist, author to speak at CMC in Edwards March 11
As part of the Women in Philanthropy Distinguished Lecture Series, international best-selling author Maude Barlow will speak about the global water crisis and the solutions needed to avoid a worldwide water shortage. The free talk will take place on the evening of March 11 at Colorado Mountain College in Edwards. Barlow’s lecture, “Blue Future: A…
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A whole-system approach to pork
This Aspen Times feature on the good work of CMC sustainability studies student Merrill Johnson, who is reducing waste, upcycling, and creating locally-sourced and sold food on her family’s farm, was published last summer. We’re reprinting it belatedly in Enews as it escaped our media monitor. Enjoy the read! Merrill Johnson never planned to be…