With convenient access to the great outdoors, several sites honoring United States military members and veterans, a high desert climate perfect for summertime activities and some of the best Mexican food in the country much of which is grown right down the road on Pueblo County farms there are countless things to do in the Home of Heroes during the summer months.
Summertime in Pueblo is perhaps best known for the Colorado State Fair and the annual Chile & Frijoles Festival, but those are just two small facets of the many attractions the city has to offer. Pueblo has an immersive Creative Corridor that runs through three historic neighborhoods and is filled with museums, galleries, street sculptures, fountains, live music and more.
This is the fifty-eighth in a series of articles from the staff of the Nature & Wildlife Discovery Center that will provide resources, ideas, and suggestions for families during the COVID-19 pandemic. Watch for future articles with outdoor activity ideas for students and families. The public can help the nonprofit NWDC get through this challenging time by making a donation at https://hikeandlearn.org/donate/. Join NWDC for guided hikes and other exciting nature programs listed here: https://hikeandlearn.org/programs-and-events/.
From the Archean Epoch to the Holocene to the Anthropocene, carbon has played a crucial role in the global ecosystem of the Earth, and the success and technological progress of human society. The Holocene saw the rapid worldwide proliferation, growth, and impacts of the last remaining human species. Human progress on Earth has had an exponentially increasing global impact, one that we are discovering a bit late significantly threatens our present well-being,
This is the fifty-sixth in a series of articles from the staff of the Nature & Wildlife Discovery Center that will provide resources, ideas, and suggestions for families during the COVID-19 pandemic. Watch for future articles with outdoor activity ideas for students and families. The public can help the nonprofit NWDC get through this challenging time by making a donation at https://hikeandlearn.org/donate/. Join NWDC for guided hikes and other exciting nature programs listed here: https://hikeandlearn.org/programs-and-events/.
One of the most crucial environmental concerns is reducing the amount of heat-trapping carbon in our planet’s atmosphere. But what is carbon? How did it get into our atmosphere, and why is the level of atmospheric carbon increasing? Why is this such a great concern to the well-being of life on Earth as we know it?
Article Text: This is the fifty-fifth in a series of articles from the staff of the Nature & Wildlife Discovery Center. Join NWDC for their upcoming Earth Day Challenge happening on Saturday, April 24th at the River Campus in Pueblo – registration is now open here: https://hikeandlearn.secure.retreat.guru/program/2021-earth-day-challenge/.
This is not another Earth Day article about recycling, planting trees, picking up trash, composting, eating less meat, or taking shorter showers. These things are all important and have a positive impact on our future most certainly, but I am sure you can find those suggestions everywhere else today. Those topics, while not necessarily old-fashioned, are uninteresting, predictable, and becoming tritely familiar as Earth Day fare. As important as doing these are, things are also, quite frankly, not often entirely in our hands. Many of our social systems, urban settings, and habitual ways of life are not set up to make such options possible.