Mountain Biking: Rubber side down- Time for a TurnaroundWell, my friends, things are finally looking up, and good timing, too, since I’m sure you’re all sick of me bitching. Recent bike build, including wheels… fun! In what feels like a fairly short time, I’ve come from sitting around … Continue reading → […]
- This Raised My PulseHey, baby… wanna ride? I may be injured, but I’m not dead yet. I can still have racy thoughts. Here’s more info. In other news, UBI was an awesome success! I had a blast. I highly recommend it. Overhaul day…. … Continue reading → […]
- Time for a Turnaround
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What the neighbors are up to
WYOMING
Here’s a bit of a surprise: In Wyoming, they’re protecting prairie dogs. OK, actually, they’re protecting black-footed ferrets, but black-footed ferrets find prairie dogs delicious, so the p-dogs are part of the bargain.
UTAH
Two Utahns return home from Washington, D.C., to walk 350 miles in an attempt to raise support for climate legislation.
NEW MEXICO
New Mexico has sort of joined a regional cap and trade agreement. But the people on the board that passed it are appointed by the governor — and the new boss is on record against a cap and trade agreement. Here’s an early LA Times primer on the Western Climate Initiative.
A permit for a coal mine on Navajo land has been revoked after a judge found the impact study to have been insufficient.
And EcoNewMexico.com’s author has just put together what sounds like a real honey of a home water conservation system.
A thirsty Denver wants to expand Gross Reservoir
A man makes an (illegal) jump into Gross Reservoir over the summer | DailyCamera.com
Denver is thirsty — and only getting thirstier.
By 2030, in fact, Denver will be short about 11 billion gallons of water to quench the thirst of Denver residents (and their lawns…)
So Denver is proposing a plan to pump more water from the headwaters of the Colorado River over the Continental Divide to Gross Reservoir in southwest Boulder County. And to do that, Denver wants to almost triple the size of Gross Reservoir.
The draft environmental impact statement for the project, which would fill the newly enlarged reservoir with more water from tributaries of the Colorado River near Granby, was released this month.
A public hearing will be held Tuesday in Boulder to collect comments on the environmental impact statement. … Read more
Boulder man dresses in drag to make his point: It may be your lawn, but it’s everybody’s water
The boss — a man in drag, wearing a stunning bleach blonde wig, turquoise flapper dress and pink heels — sits on the water-waster’s lap (a wealthy and bigheaded young man accused of watering his ample lawn five times a day, seven days a week).
The boa-bedecked “boss” strokes the water-waster’s cheek, and asks, in a sultry sweet man-woman voice, “Do you have low-flow toilets at home?”
