Thanks to one of my newest clients, Revo, I was given the opportunity to attend the Global Green Pre-Oscar party in Hollywood last Wednesday. Global Green is the American arm of Green Cross International, and this event, now in its 8th year, was founded by polar explorer and global warming advocate, Sebastian Copeland. Sebastian is [...]
Posts under ‘Environment’
Pickathon Festival Partners with Klean Kanteen to Go 100% Plastic-Free
Many say it is impossible to hold a large, multi-day music festival without using plastic cups and without selling bottled water. The organizers of Pickathon 2010 and Klean Kanteen®, maker of the first BPA-free metal bottle designed for personal hydration, are determined to prove the naysayers wrong. Pickathon is a three-day music festival held every [...]
Quality of Life
Spring in the Rockies is an exercise in patience. Weather is a wild card, and whether you are waiting for single track to dry or for a ski line to come into condition you learn that to achieve your goals you have to watch and wait rather than plan too far ahead. Sometimes it is [...]
Top 15 Initiatives to Benefit the Planet, according to the French
French magazine Clin D’Oeil just published their list of the Top 15 Initiatives to Benefit the Planet, and 1% For The Planet ranked second for their digital music compilation that came out at the beginning of this year. The passage below (or what I can gather from guessing French words) describes the organization’s mission, rapid [...]
1% for the Planet: The Music Vol. 1
Backbone client 1% for the planet has released an all-digital music compilation that includes rare and exclusive tracks donated by 40 different artists. It will be available exclusively through the holidays via eco download card in Patagonia retail stores, and on iTunes and in other retail locations starting January 5th. Artists include among others: Jack [...]
Strong Collaborative Statement on Climate Change from CEOs at Aspen Ski Co and TNF
High Country News just published this powerful op-ed collaboration by Aspen Ski Co CEO Mike Kaplan and The North Face CEO Steve Rendle. Definitely worth a read: Climate change threatens our livelihoods — and yours In the summer of 2003, one of the most legendary and fearsome mountaineering routes in the world –– the North [...]
Climate change threatens our livelihoods — and yours
CEO’s of Aspen Skiing Company and The North Face demonstrate environmental responsibility, call for a strong global and national climate and energy policy. Read the High Country News article here.
Let’s Raise our Voice!
This week I saw a provocative film chronicling the the disturbing proliferation of natural gas drilling in Western Colorado. While I am an advocate of finding ways to wean ourselves off foreign oil dependence, I do know we have to hold oil and gas companies to a higher standard when they come to our communities. [...]
Pole Dancing Bear
Your hard earned tax dollars are being spent to install cameras in the woods, so we can see what bears do when no one is watching. Like pole dancing.
False No-Trespass Signs Are LAME!
Yellow lines mark boundary of RFTA easement which provides public access to most of the river bank on this stretch of the Roaring Fork.
