Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Colorado Cimate Project My boss is planning to announce the Colorado Climate Project tomorrow at 10:00 a.m., according to the Denver Business Journal. They write, "Two Denver area mayors as well as the CEO of Vail Resorts will launch the Colorado Climate Project Thursday with the aim of reducing the state's contribution to climate change. "Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper and Lakewood Mayor Steve Burkholder will announce the project Thursday, 10 a.m., at the Denver Water headquarters. "Others involved are Fort Collins Mayor Doug Hutchinson; Robert Katz, CEO of Vail Resorts; Gail Klapper, director of the Colorado Forum; Al Yates, former president of Colorado State University; and Summit County Commissioner Tom Long. "The project is part of the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization, a two-year-old coalition spreading the word about what climate disruption can do to Colorado and its residents and what they can do about it. The organization is a coalition of Denver and nine other local governments; Denver Water, the state's largest water provider; Qwest and nine other businesses; and seven nonprofit organizations, from Rocky Mountain Farmers Union to The Nature Conservancy of Colorado." Category: Colorado Water 10:11:04 PM     World Water Week 2006 World Water Week continues today in Stockholm. Here are the links to their first three reports, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Category: Colorado Water 6:29:15 AM     San Miguel River report card The San Miguel River watershed report card series of lectures wrapped up last Wednesday, according to the Telluride Watch. From the article, "Hosted by the Telluride Institute, in partnership with the San Miguel Watershed Coalition and The Nature Conservancy, the lecture series brought ten regional experts and scientists to town each Wednesday for the last five weeks to discuss the themes included in the 2005 San Miguel Watershed Ecological Health Report Card. The report card was commissioned by the Watershed Coalition and the Nature Conservancy to establish a baseline for measuring the health of the watershed, an area of about 1 million acres, including the land around the San Miguel River and its tributaries from its source above Telluride to where it flows into the Dolores River. On its report card the watershed received an overall grade of 'C,' which Coe said should not be taken as a dire assessment. 'The report card doesn[base ']t have the same grade inflation you see in elementary school,' she said - 'C,' here, means 'average' or 'fair.' The report card describes the watershed's condition as 'outside the range of acceptable variation; vulnerable to a serious degradation if left unchecked.' The themes the report card and lectures discussed were wildlife, vegetation, soil quality, climate, water quality and aquatic life. Two experts lectured each night, each on the same topic for the first four evenings at the Telluride Historical Museum, and one expert on water quality and one expert on aquatic life lectured last Wednesday." Category: Colorado Water 6:19:29 AM

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