Looking for Orion’s Belt on a snowy Idaho evening
Ketchum, Idaho, awarded a still-rare designation as a dark sky community. The question is whether that designation can be monetized through what is called astro-tourism.
Month: November 2017
Amory Lovins’s long, soft, and creatively optimistic path
Amory Lovins in 1976 argued for sweeping changes in energy. Many of them are finally coming about. But can we change directions soon enough to avert disaster?
Electric car sales and the expanding lily pond
Sales of electric vehicles have been increasing robustly in Colorado, leading one transportation analyst to cautiously predict that 20 percent of all cars, trucks and motorcycles could be electric by 2030.
How the horrors of Dachau made Vail a better place
At age 21, Tom Steinberg saw the horrors of Dachau. It deeply influenced his work as Vail’s first physician and, later, an elected official. He touched many.