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There are countless shining examples year-round of Roaring Fork Valley residents taking action to benefit the environment.
Aspen Center for Environmental Studies and Roaring Fork Conservancy have outstanding educational programs to nurture a connection with nature among students.
Aspen Valley Land Trust works with ranchers and other landowners to conserve vistas and sensitive lands from development. Wilderness Workshop fights to protect the most important unspoiled lands for people and wildlife.
Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers, Independence Pass Foundation and Roaring Fork Mountain Bike Association take pressure off beleaguered public land management agencies to maintain trails and habitat.
Local governments have also set the bar high. Pitkin County Open Space and Trails has improved the quality of life for recreationists and wildlife. Pitkin County Healthy Rivers and Streams is taking vital steps to protect our waterways. The city of Aspen became an energy efficiency leader by s
) that was established in 1999 to financially support CORE, also was considered visionary at the time.
The program, which Pitkin County and the city of Aspen adopted, requires property owners who install energy-sucking amenities such as heated pools and snowmelt driveways to offset those carbon emissions by either paying a fee or installing renewables onsite.
Since Pitkin County tightened up its building code last year to require new homes to be built more energy efficient, REMP fees aren’t being paid at the same level as before.
“The building code is such that people can’t by their way out of it anymore,” said Aspen City Councilman Ward Hauenstein who serves on the CORE board as the city’s representative.
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These are recorded moments from the “Stories of Climate Change/Historias del Cambio Climático” community mural project.
If you find yourself wandering the streets of Aspen, Carbondale, or Glenwood Springs this month, you will be greeted by collages of oversized self-portraits pasted on Colorado Mountain College buildings.
The valley-wide art installation is made up of the faces of 89 community members who recorded stories of their experiences with climate change. They spanned ages two to 78 and they told their stories in both English and Spanish. They shared a connection to the Roaring Fork Valley and to this prompt: “Climate change knows no boundaries. The health of the planet affects and unites us all. What has your experience been?”
Share to Facebook Post to Twitter Email CORE partnered with artists, scientists, nonprofits, businesses, and municipalities for Imagine Climate 2021. On Feb. 20, the first of three community murals was installed at CMC s Lappala Center in Carbondale. Photo by Raleigh Burleigh.
The Third Annual Imagine Climate event, hosted by Community Office for Resource Efficiency (CORE), kicks off on March 1 with the completion of three crowdsourced murals decorating Colorado Mountain College (CMC) buildings in Aspen, Carbondale, and Glenwood Springs. CORE created the murals with French artist JR’s Inside Out global art project, incorporating the faces and stories of nearly 90 locally-known participants from ages two to 78.