Tag: Sustainability
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Rig to Flip
It’s finally snowing for real, which means Colorado is finally starting to build up the snowpack that sustains our rivers. “Rig to Flip”, a new video from Ben Saheb, spotlights a few of those rivers. Saheb wears many hats at CMC: Sustainability Studies student, blogger, filmmaker, and now, activist. His latest video is a collective…
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Edwards Winter Market
New food market offers fresh local food through the winter Locavores, rejoice! This winter, you can purchase great local food in Edwards all winter long, thanks to the new Edwards Winter Market. The new Vail Valley food market, based inside Colorado Mountain College in Edwards, will offer fresh produce, fruit, grass-fed meats, wild salmon,…
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A ‘greening up’ update from CMC in Rifle
Campus Vice President Nancy Genova’s Corner Column, below, first appeared in yesterday’s Rifle Citizen & Telegram. Campus Sustainability Day was celebrated on Oct. 24 throughout the United States. At Colorado Mountain College, we are one of hundreds of colleges and universities making a difference where sustainability is concerned. Recently, the college submitted our Climate Action…
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Campus Sustainability Day
Campuses across the nation commit to sustainabl CMC is one of hundreds of colleges and universities working to increase sustainability on campus. Recently, according to Rifle Campus Vice President Nancy Genova, the coilege submitted its “Climate Action Plan” to the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, and was told it was one…
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Flight Across America program takes off
CMC students will once again take part in Ecoflight’s Student Program This article was first published in the Aspen Daily News. EcoFlight, an environmental nonprofit based out of Aspen, will be hosting a roundtable seminar on Monday at 5:30 p.m. to kick off its 10th annual Flight Across America Student Program. This year’s program focuses…
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New grant supports new approach to solar education, training
Colorado Mountain College to create mobile training lab This article first appeared in the Citizen Telegram By Rob Winn This fall at Colorado Mountain College in Rifle we are preparing for a whole new era of learning that will allow us to improve the way we deliver our integrated energy programs, which prepare students for…
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A Trip to the Nature Conservancy
CMC student Dustin Eldridge traveled to the Nature Conservancy’s Carpenter Ranch near Steamboat Springs recently with his Environmental Science class to learn about ecosystems and environmental challenges. Follow along in his post below, first published in his blog, Steamboat Livin’. Today my Intro to Environmental Science class took a trip to the local Nature Conservancy…
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Sustainability Studies student picnic at CMC Edwards
CMC is hosting a picnic for Sustainability Studies students on Saturday, September 29th. The event is designed to give BASS students from all CMC campuses a chance to meet fellow students from other campuses and spend some down time with their professors. Participants are asked to bring a visual or spoken “image” of their interpretation…
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New Faces at Colorado Mountain College
CMC will be welcoming a handful of new faculty this semester. We’ll be sharing a few of their stories and introductions on eNews. First up, in her own words: Dr. Tina Evans, new Sustainability Studies faculty based in Steamboat Springs. Welcome, Tina! I’m thrilled to begin working in this innovative and forward looking program! I’m…
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College students gain leadership skills through new work program
This article was first published in the Summit County Business Journal. By Kim Marquis. Students in a new Colorado Mountain College internship program not only gained work experience this summer but also learned how to get things done independently on the job. Sustainability major Ashlee Andrews, a junior, earned three credits and a $500 scholarship…