 Stories About: Colorado AND placemaking
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Braking News!
Denver hopes to reduce car emissions by encouraging better driving |
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13 Mar 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 12:05 PM on 13 Mar 2008 The city of Denver has unveiled a "Driving Change" pilot program designed to reduce vehicle greenhouse-gas emissions by encouraging drivers to ease off the lead foot. Starting in May, 400 public and private Denver vehicles, including that of Mayor John Hickenlooper, will have a device installed to monitor time spent braking, idling, accelerating, and speeding. Analyzed res ... |
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| Topics: cars, climate, Colorado, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, placemaking (all these topics) |
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Smart Attack
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10 Feb 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Smart Attack Smart-growth policies, designed to put a damper on runaway development and preserve local character, have recently come under attack in a handful of U.S. communities. In Loudon County, Va., on the outskirts of Washington, D.C., nearly 200 lawsuits were filed last week against the county's growth-control policies. Also last week, the mayo ... |
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| Topics: Colorado, commercial and industry organizations, environmental justice, placemaking, politics, Virginia (all these topics) |
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Prairie Dogged
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18 Nov 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Prairie Dogged Faced with drought and plunging profits, Colorado farmers are under growing financial pressure to hawk their land to developers. Between 1993 and 2001, about 1.5 million acres of farmland in the state were put on the market and developed; 300,000 of the acres were sold in 2001 as a drought began to take hold. State officials are scrambling to come up with solutions that w ... |
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| Topics: Colorado, dams, energy, food and agriculture, logging, placemaking (all these topics) |
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Give Those Ranchers a Hand
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29 Jul 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Give Those Ranchers a Hand In an unusual shake-up of traditional alliances, ranchers and environmentalists are banding together in Colorado to fight a common enemy: urban sprawl. In Custer County, at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, three conservation groups and six ranchers have signed a covenant limiting the kind of development permissible on the land -- no trophy homes, no golf courses, no condominiums. The result? An 11 ... |
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| Topics: Colorado, placemaking (all these topics) |
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Lean and Green
A Colorado family welcomes the simple life |
Lisa Jones |
26 Apr 2000 |
Main Dish |
| Why would Dale Murphy, a senior geologist with Enserch Exploration, leave a $58,000-a-year job in Dallas and take his family to a remote town in Colorado where the employment opportunities range from sorting cherries to working a supermarket cash register? The Murphy family, home on the range. Photo: Lisa Jones. Sanity. He and his wife Sheryl didn't want to raise four-year-old Hayden and seven-year-old Ginger in ... |
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| Topics: Colorado, green living, placemaking (all these topics) |
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Dudeless Ranch
Brandi Chastain ain't got nothing on these ladies |
Lisa Jones |
20 Aug 1999 |
Main Dish |
| Virginia Sutherland sits in her orderly ranch kitchen in Moffat, Colo. She's drinking a cup of coffee, smoking a cigarette, and fiddling with a box of recipe cards. But we are not about to discuss the finer points of angel food cake -- the recipe cards describe each of her 250 cows that she runs with her daughter, Lynn. "They describe everything," says Virginia, drawing hard on her cigarette. ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, Colorado, green living, placemaking (all these topics) |
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