(See related posts, links within posts and public comments on the Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park expansions here)
Bob Ward:
"GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado — At Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park, the decision to install energy-efficient lighting was a home run both environmentally and economically.
Owner Steve Beckley had known for years that the incandescent lights in the caves actually put out more heat than light, and that Kings Row, one of the most dazzling formations on the popular cave tour, was beginning to dry out as a result.
The key to all of the caverns' strange and beautiful rock features — not to mention the 54 unique species that live in the caverns — is water, which percolates and drips through fissures in the stone.
Under normal circumstances, the temperature inside the caverns is a cool 52 degrees Fahrenheit year-round. If the drying were allowed to continue, Beckley explained, “You get a dusty, dry cave instead of a wet, living cave.”.........
.......Today, work is under way to expand the tour options in the park's namesake caverns, which Beckley can illuminate at a lower cost and with less risk to the cave's ecology.
“We began with 7,800 linear feet of passageway, and now we have about 16,000,” he smiled. “This cave has been open since 1999, and I want to make sure your grandkids can still come. Our job is the stewardship of this cave.”......" (Read more? Click title)
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Showing posts with label controversy over CLEER trustees. Show all posts
Showing posts with label controversy over CLEER trustees. Show all posts
May 21, 2012
October 9, 2011
SandBox Comments: Glenwood Springs Post Independent/John Colson "Driving job creation, energy savings"
The steady rising in caliber work of John Colson on his environmental reporting is noted.
One can pick up on, if they find the patience to give him a chance today; Colson trying to tune in to the more 'conservative' viewpoint.
SandBox Nanny once again tosses Colson to the 'kids'. Where he will sink or swim.
With that said, she does have her own personal viewpoint on the topic of selling the value of 'clean energy jobs' and 'clean energy spending' to voters.
It's not that conservatives don't see the value. They do see the need and they also see the long-term benefits. The problem is the government's administration. By the time these grants and loans are handed out, the only real monetary benefit there is goes to the business receiving that handout. Conservatives believe in free market, entrepreneurial oriented 'green jobs'.
Take the government 'grants' and 'loans' out of the equation and the concept works.
A secondary problem is credibility. Solyndra is going to have many consequences where public trust is concerned. CLEER, now becoming 'Garfield Clean Energy' is not free from alleged scandal. Pretty tough to trust an organization when the public doesn't trust a few of the Trustees. It would behoove Garfield Clean Energy to make sure their public relations are improved before they put out too much PR singing the praises of the programs they are pitching.
Nice work from John Colson today. Over on The Glenwood Springs Post Independent.
(Learn more? Click title and comment to start discussion)
"Truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident."
One can pick up on, if they find the patience to give him a chance today; Colson trying to tune in to the more 'conservative' viewpoint.
SandBox Nanny once again tosses Colson to the 'kids'. Where he will sink or swim.
With that said, she does have her own personal viewpoint on the topic of selling the value of 'clean energy jobs' and 'clean energy spending' to voters.
It's not that conservatives don't see the value. They do see the need and they also see the long-term benefits. The problem is the government's administration. By the time these grants and loans are handed out, the only real monetary benefit there is goes to the business receiving that handout. Conservatives believe in free market, entrepreneurial oriented 'green jobs'.
Take the government 'grants' and 'loans' out of the equation and the concept works.
A secondary problem is credibility. Solyndra is going to have many consequences where public trust is concerned. CLEER, now becoming 'Garfield Clean Energy' is not free from alleged scandal. Pretty tough to trust an organization when the public doesn't trust a few of the Trustees. It would behoove Garfield Clean Energy to make sure their public relations are improved before they put out too much PR singing the praises of the programs they are pitching.
Nice work from John Colson today. Over on The Glenwood Springs Post Independent.
(Learn more? Click title and comment to start discussion)
"Truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident."
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