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Lifestyle Letter

In praise of cool deeds & local heroes.

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nternational climate talks were going on in Paris while I was editing this magazine. As several local voices featured in this month's articles reminded me, climate change threatens many aspects of our Roaring Fork lifestyle, ranging from farming and ranching to fishing and skiing, not to mention real estate values and income from tourism. As my Carbondale neighbor Robert Hubbell puts it, “One of the things I have learned is the inter-connectedness of climate, about El Niño and what happens here with the snow pack and summer water supplies, about rising sea levels and wilder hurricanes and storms around the world. Everything is ultimately connected.”

While editing this month, I was gratified to learn about local folks who are opening windows on the issue of a warming world. You’ll learn about many of them in these pages, and I’m giving a shout-out to some right here: Thank you, Amory Lovins and Rocky Mountain Institute! Thank you, Auden Schendler and Aspen Skiing Company!

Thanks to my friend Peter Westcott, who has traveled to Washington, D.C. and talked to countless local folks about taxing carbon!

Thanks to everyone who has put solar panels on the roof, taken the train instead of a plane, replaced your old Edison bulbs with LCDs or otherwise reduced your carbon footprint. (For more ways to make a difference, check out Andrea Palm-Porter's article, “What Affects Global Warming? You Do!”) Now, possibly, just possibly, there are a few readers who are tempted to write me to quibble about climate change. To them I would say pretty much what Snowmass resident and Coastal Risk Consulting CEO Albert Slap says: Don’t argue with me. Look at the data from NASA, FEMA, the Army Corps of Engineers and the National Center for Atmospheric Research...

Or go read what former California governor Arnold Schwartzenegger wrote in his blog on December 7. He asked, “Besides the fact that fossil fuels destroy our lungs, everyone agrees that eventually they will run out... What’s your plan then?”

I offer up this issue as thanks to everyone is who helping to make the plan by thinking globally, acting locally and doing cool deeds that will help to stem global warming. You're my he-roes and she-roes!

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14 U.S. Paralympians Rock the Box

U.S. Team Trains for Alpine Events at Crossfit in Carbondale.

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Taste of Basalt Raises Fun & Funds for Schools

In November, the Basalt Education Foundation's 20th annual Taste of Basalt raised $100,000 for Basalt public schools. The event at the Roaring Fork Club featured mid-valley restaurant food samples, cocktail and wine tastings, dancing, a silent auction and a raffle. PHOTOGRAPHY JEREMY SWANSON

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AROUND TOWN

GARCO SEARCH AND RESCUE SEARCHING FOR NEW MEMBERS Garfield County Search & Rescue is seeking new volunteer appli-

Mountain Life COLORado features Dickerson’s hand-drawn images of wildlife and spots such as the Crystal Mill and the Maroon Bells. It is for sale for $14.95 at the Book Train, Factory Outdoor, and Treadz in Glenwood Springs; at Dancing Colors, the Roaring Fork Co-Op and the Launchpad in Carbondale; at Basalt Printing and Bristlecone Mountain Sports in Basalt; and at the Explorer Bookstore and Carl’s in Aspen. For information, email stacid72@sopris.net or phone the Launchpad at 970.963.1680.

RO MEAD REMEMBERED

cants. If you have been looking for a way to give back to our local com-

The life of Ro Mead, execu-

munities, if you enjoy helping others, and if you’re good at activities such

tive director of the Carbondale

as snowmobiling, ATVing, skiing, snowshoeing, climbing, canyoneering,

Council on Arts and Human-

rafting, boating, swimming and dog handling, this may be for you.

ities (CCAH) from 2004 to 2011,

Candidates must be 18 years old and have a desire to help others

was celebrated by Carbondale

in need while out-of-doors in all kinds of weather and across all

friends and admirers on De-

sorts of terrain. They will need to show dedication to the training

cember 5. Mead, 78, died of

program and a willingness to respond to missions whenever possi-

pancreatic cancer.

ble. Visit GarfieldCountySAR.com or email garfieldsar@gmail.com for more information.

After growing up in and living in Denver, Mead moved to the Roaring Fork Valley in the 1970s, living in Redstone, Cattle Creek and Carbondale. An accomplished ceramic artist, gardener and cook, Mead is credited with bringing First Friday to Carbondale. She also helped to found the Carbondale Public Arts Commission.

Close friend and current CCAH executive director Amy Kimberly memorialized Mead. “Ro put CCAH at the center of community. She was reaching out and mending fences and inspiring vision. She was responsible for bringing the visual arts into a stronger focus within CCAH, and she was a catalyst of Carbondale establishing itself as an all-round arts community. Ro grew the small gallery CCAH had started, transforming it into an inspiring showcase for diverse, local artists, and

ROARING FORK VALLEY FEATURED IN ADULT COLORING BOOK Artist Staci Dickerson has designed a coloring book for adults that is filled with images of the Roaring Fork Valley. Dickerson was prompted to create Mountain Life COLORado when a dear friend of

she started programs in our public schools. Ultimately, Ro’s greatest joy came from being able to give back to people, whether you were an orphan in Africa, a child at Crystal River Elementary, or a friend.”

BATTLEMENT MESA INAUGURATES SOLAR PLANT

hers, who had been diagnosed with a terminal illness, expressed re-

Two members of the Battlement Mesa Metro District board recent-

gret at never having learned to paint. Dickerson says, “I realized that

ly cut a ceremonial ribbon opening a solar array that will power the

for many, drawing is an obstacle that keeps them from enjoying the

district’s water treatment plant. The huge solar array is made up of

wonderful experience of coloring or painting.”

1,422 panels and generates nearly 700,000 kilowatt-hours of electrici-

Psychologists have found that coloring, whether inside or outside

ty per year, about as much as 100 homes use in a year. The panels will

the lines, is a great alternative to meditation that helps relieve tension

power all of the water treatment plant’s annual electricity demands

and anxiety. Psychologist Ben Michaelis, has said, "There is a lot his-

and are expected to save the district $200,000 over 20 years.

tory of people coloring for mental health reasons. Carl Jung used to

The Battlement Mesa plant is the fourth Garfield County water

try to get his patients to color in mandalas at the turn of the last cen-

plant to achieve net-zero electricity status, joining plants in Rifle,

tury, as a way of getting people to focus on the subconscious to let

Silt and Carbondale. CLEER (Clean Energy Economy for the Re-

go. Now we know it has a lot of other stress-busting qualities as well."

gion) says that altogether, there are 27 government-owned solar

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At a solar workshop for government agencies held in September, Katharine Rushton of Sunsense Solar, the company that installed the Battlement Mesa array, explained various financing mechanisms and noted that there is “an advantage to installing solar in the coming year” because the 30 percent federal tax credit will drop to 10 percent at the end of 2016. Xcel Energy’s Solar Rewards program will also end in 2016.

NEW I-70 EXPRESS LANE TO REDUCE TIME TO AIRPORT By the time this January issue of Roaring Fork Lifestyle is printed, the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) says that the long-awaited Interstate 70 Mountain Express Lane will be open. The lane is intended to reduce peak-period travel time by between Floyd Hill and the Eisenhower and Johnson Memorial Tunnels by half, resulting in an average 30-minute time savings.

The lane will be one of the most expensive toll roads in the U.S., with a toll that varies from $3 to $30 depending on demand and is capped at $30 for the 13-mile stretch of road. CDOT believes that drivers attempting to get to the airport and get on the slopes will be glad to have the option of paying the toll and avoiding traffic in the “pinch point” areas where traffic peaks between 1 and 3 p.m. on the weekends.

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Stephanie Jallen, nicknamed Hopper, won a bronze in the standing Super-G and Super Combined in the 2014 Paralympics.

Chris Devlin-Young was the first disabled athlete to compete in our local speed ski endurance contest, “24 Hours of Aspen�.

The cool-down 'roll' after an intense training session; photo by Genevieve Villamizar.

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rossfit has a reputation as “extreme.” Incredibly challenging, it’s the domain of elite athletes.

Carbondalian Kevin Jardine and his wife Ashley have

been Crossfitting for several years. Both are in top physical condition. Kevin, the director of high performance for U.S. Paralympics alpine skiing and snowboarding, decided that the Box at Sopris Crossfit in Carbondale would provide excellent training for his athletes. At his invitation, Roaring Fork Lifestyle watched the U.S. Paralympic team tear it up there in late November.

In mid-workout, the Box felt like it would any on other day, for any other class: seeming chaos! First you feel the music – a loud, motivating wall of sound. You dodge

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athletes and watch for coaches who pace about, holler-

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ing time, encouragement and form corrections.

On this day, however, a yard sale of adaptive equipment was scattered about the Box. Every single athlete was working with a slight modification – even if

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peripheral vision. In 2010, she learned that she also has multiple sclerosis. Danielle, who now lives in

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Winter Park, usually travels with a seeing dog, but her

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pooch skipped the Crossfit workout.

U.S. alpine mono-skier Andrew Kurka has incredibly muscled arms and shoulders, partly because they must do the work of both arms and legs. A 2005 ATV

located just steps away!

accident damaged three vertebrae and left him par-

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physical-high smile was a mile wide.

Perhaps this grin was the power engine behind his

that the Roaring

70-mph ski racing. Although Kurka wiped out during

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the 2014 Sochi Paralympics, breaking two vertebrae, he has regained his original speeds. Shortly after his visit here, he captured a silver medal in the 2015 IPC

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(International Paralympic Committee) alpine season.

With the lithe grace of a dancer, Aspenite Melanie Schwartz cleared two-foot-high box jumps effortlessly – on a single leg! Box jumps – simultaneously leaping with both legs from a standstill onto a platform – are notoriously associated with mental blocks. Some people simply cannot do them! Most women can master 20-inch box jumps, while men average out on the 24-inchers.

The 2015 schedule took these resolute athletes to Canada, Austria, France and Spain last January.

March saw them in Japan and Switzerland. By early December, they had been to New Zealand, the Netherlands and Italy. It’s an exhausting lifestyle, but as any of these die-hards will tell you, they live for it!

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Building for an Era of Climate Change

Living green wall; photo by Kelly Vaughan.

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n mid-January, the Rocky Mountain Institute will cut the rib-

Since 2011, for example, RMI has been working with the

bon to open its new Innovation Center in Basalt. The 15,610

U.S. government’s General Services Administration (GSA) on

square-foot office building has already been recognized as one

its National Deep Energy Retrofit Program, remodeling federal

of the world’s most energy-efficient structures, an example of

buildings to move toward the net-zero goal. RMI also helped

how to construct buildings in an era of climate change.

the owners of the Empire State Building by insulating the his-

That example is needed, because as architect/author Edwin

torical skyscraper and by replacing 6,514 leaky windows with

Mazria has written, “it’s architects who hold the key to turning

new “super windows,” cutting energy costs from $11 million to

down the global thermostat.” Mazria is the founder of Archi-

around $6.6 million a year.

tecture 2030, a movement that calls for all new buildings and building renovations to be carbon-neutral by 2030.

Cara Carmichael, an architect/engineer who has served as the project manager for the Innovation Center, says that RMI “want-

RMI’s Innovation Center shows how those goals can be met.

ed to build a replicable, model office building that would perform

To achieve “carbon neutrality” a building’s net greenhouse gas

at net-zero energy consumption. We wanted to be able to say,

emissions must equal zero. A “net-zero energy building” is

'Yes, at 6,600 feet, it’s possible to eliminate all summer cooling

achieved when a structure produces at least as much energy

equipment and also significantly downsize the heating system.'”

as it uses each year. The Innovation Center’s tests show that it’s

As Carmichael and RMI’s chief scientist Amory Lovins en-

on track not only to be a net-zero energy building, but also to be

ter the sandstone and brick-clad building in early December,

the most efficient building in the coldest climate zone in the U.S.

accompanied by several guests, they gesture to a living-room-

The Center not only meets the highest standard of the U.S.

sized area on the first floor. That 200-square-foot area is left

Green Building Council – LEED Platinum – it also meets Europe’s

over from space that would be taken up by the air conditioning

stringent Passivhaus standards for a thermally tight (unleaky)

system in a conventional building.

building envelope. As of August 2010, only 13 U.S. buildings met

The Center’s interior is washed with natural light streaming in

the Passivhaus standard and only a few dozen others were being

from south- and north-facing windows. It’s 22 degrees outside, but

built to meet it. The Passive House Institute noted that the Inno-

the building enfolds visitors with comfortable warmth. Although

vation Center was the tightest building they had ever measured!

contractors are still wielding power tools, noise and echoes quickly

All of that matters to the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) be-

disappear. The carpeting is new and painting is still being done, but

cause the organization aims to “transform global energy use to

they contribute not a whiff of chemical scent to indoor air quality.

create a clean, prosperous, and secure future” by changing the

An experienced observer will note the use of beetle-kill pine,

way energy is produced and used. A nonprofit that has offices

recycled materials, acoustical ceilings and a colorful cascade of

in Boulder and near Old Snowmass, RMI works to transform

tropical plants on a living wall, but there’s nothing here that an-

energy use in multiple areas: transportation, manufacturing,

nounces itself as uber-modern or conspicuously green. And that’s

community planning, energy production and buildings.

intentional. “We wanted this to be something any-

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DEEP GREEN INNOVATION (CON TI N U ED)

body could do,” Carmichael says. Although the Innovation Center cost just over $500 per square foot to build, the premium to achieve net-zero energy, compared to a typical LEED Silver building, was only about $57 per square foot. When taking into account the building's operational energy savings and the value provided to occupants, the simple payback is under five years.

“A net-zero energy office building is entirely possible, and it’s critical,” comments Carmichael. “We need to double-down on the performance of commercial buildings as the climate changes and weather becomes more volatile.” Carmichael, who has been with RMI for ten years and has been working with the GSA’s deep building retrofits, says, “There’s a big conversation going on right now about building resiliency – the ability of buildings to adapt to climate change. Buildings contribute the biggest slice of CO2 to the U.S. energy usage pie. If every building was as efficient as the Innovation Center, we could change that.”

The new Innovation Center will hold RMI’s local staff and will allow RMI to

Rendering courtesy of ZGF Architects.

The Innovation Center enables RMI to convene global energy and business leaders to seek solutions in a time of rapid change and challenge.

Rendering courtesy of ZGF Architects.

convene global energy and business leaders and to demonstrate how deepgreen buildings should be designed, contracted, constructed and occupied.

To do all that, the structure has pushed the building envelope: It has been built with foot-thick SIPs (structurally insulated panels) to hold inside temperatures at comfortable levels. Its south wall is protected by outdoor operable venetian blinds that shield it from summer heat. Motion sensors detect empty rooms and turn off unused lights. On summer nights, windows will open automatically to let in air that will cool the building during warm days.

And those windows, in Carmichael’s words, are “the best in the world.”

The Center’s windows are quad-paned sandwiches that contain two layers of glass and two HeatMirror films. The cavities are filled with Kryp-

With approximately 80 kW in roof-mounted solar photovoltaic panels, the building will produce as much or more energy than it uses each year.

ton gas, which is more insulating than the more-common Argon gas fill.

The windows have an R-value of 13.2 (U-value of 0.076), which means that they are about as efficient as a two-by-four-inch wooden stud wall; they're several times more efficient than a code-compliant window.

To keep people comfortable, most buildings regulate just one thing – interior air temperature. But Carmichael explains that six different factors combine to prompt people to feel hot or cold: clothing, people’s activity levels, air temperature, humidity, air velocity and surface temperatures. The Innovation Center is managed and furnished in ways that deal with several of those factors. Its heat, for example, radiates from multiple surfaces, including electric units in the floors and walls that are thermostatically controlled.

The Center’s upstairs conference room is equipped with Hyper chairs, which are somewhat akin to seats in high-end cars. Each chair is built from a breathable mesh and contains both heating coils and fans that allow its occupants to control their own comfort. The chairs are run by battery packs that hold a charge that will last for three or four days.

RMI anticipates that the Innovation Center’s operating cost will be 70 percent lower than that of a typical office building. RMI anticipates a return of over $3 million over 10-year period, including not only operating costs, but also the value a deep-green building delivers via factors such as increased worker productivity, increased building longevity and reductions in insurance. Carmichael notes that those are “squishy numbers” but that the savings numbers are drawn from a growing body of recognized green building studies.

Rocky Mountain Institute is holding five open houses for the Innovation Center between January 6 and February 25. See RMI.org for details.

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AspenWeather.net reports that snowfall will be about 10 inches above average this season for a 319 to 329 inch base, but global warming is making the snowpack erratic.

Photo by Frank Shine.

Getting Green Done at Aspen Skiing Company Safeguarding the Silver Slopes in a Warming World ARTICLE GENEVIÈVE JOËLLE VILLAMIZAR PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF ASPEN SKIING COMPANY

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his year, 2015, was the warmest year ever since records started being kept in 1880.

Let that sink in for a moment.

Today, Aspen is two degrees warmer than in 1970. In those 30 years, the northern hemisphere has lost a million square miles of spring snowpack. Aspen, named for a tree that may not survive the rising temperatures in the Roaring Fork Valley, has lost 30 frost-free days per year.

It’s easy to cast a jaundiced eye at a luxury behemoth like the

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Sam's Smokehouse at Snowmass was extensively remodeled starting in 2005; it's now a LEED Gold certified building. Photo by Jeremy Swanson.

Aspen Skiing Company, locally known as “Skico.” Your conscience may niggle some while driving your SUV along Route 82, hopping on buses that take you up Brush and Castle Creeks to arrive at the winter wonderlands of Aspen, Snowmass, Buttermilk and Aspen Highlands. Lifts whir.

Gondolas whoosh. Restaurants and hotels bustle.

What a carbon footprint this industry has, yes? It’s easy to judge or condemn, yes?

Hidden under the gloss is a more complex picture: Did you know that SkiCo produces a clean energy volume to equivalent to its usage? Or that SkiCo’s annual carbon footprint has decreased since 2000

– dropping 8.8 percent despite continued growth? Did you know that, for years, professional boarders and skiers have donned skirts, suits and ties to join SkiCo in lobbying congress on climate change?

SkiCo’s new September 2015 website includes a section on “Environment and Sustainability.” Under the “We Are Different” link, here’s what it says about climate and sustainability: “Today, sustainability at Aspen Skiing Company means staying in business forever, which will require, among other things, a stable climate and population, a viable economy over the long term, a strong community, and further down the line, equity, stable and functional democracy, even poverty and disease eradication.”

As SkiCo sees the big picture, it’s all connected. What affects the earth affects us. Especially climate.

SkiCo’s 2014 Sustainability Report declares climate change “the greatest threat facing humanity, not to mention the ski industry. Because the problem is so big, the fix won’t come through changing light bulbs; government must act.”

Meet Auden Schendler, SkiCo’s vice president of sustainability for the past 15 years. Before SkiCo, he worked with Amory Lovins at the Rocky Mountain Institute conducting corporate sustainability research. Schendler not only wrote the book “Getting Green Done,”

he’s published extensively on sustainability, clean energy and global warming. His work appears in publications ranging from newspapers to the Harvard Business Review, High Country News and online sites like the Huffington Post and Grist.

Schendler speaks with pride of two activist missions early in his SkiCo career: “One was to lobby congressional members on a federal renewable energy standard. That was an eye opener, a taste of citizenship, and a great experience everyone should have.” The second was testifying before a congressional committee. “That was one of the great experiences of my life, right up there with kayaking the Grand Canyon or delivering uniforms to Kosovo after the war. It was amazing to see government at work.”

SkiCo has been to Washington eight times in the last three years. More trips are in the pipeline. Partnerships with big trade groups such as Snowsports Industries America, the National Ski Areas Association and Protect Our Winters amplify SkiCo’s voice, enabling them to bring in climate speakers and to lobby Washington more powerfully.

The trips are often quite effective. A 2014 Sustainability

Mount Sopris reflected in ASC solar panels at Colorado Rocky Mountain School in Carbondale.

Report published by Aspen Skiing Company (ASC) states, CONTINUED >

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GETTING GREEN

(CON TI N U ED)

Opening of methane plant at Somerset coal mine; photo

by Jeremy Swanson.

Interior of methane plant; photo by Jeremy Swanson.

SkiCo with the Ceres’ BICEP coalition (Business for Innovative Climate and Energy Policy) lobby day in Washington, D.C. Photo by Matt Hamilton.

A view showing the summer snowpack near Aspen; water from that snow feeds the upper Colorado River Basin, which in turn waters the entire American Southwest.

“In 2013, ASC helped to pass the first air quality rule in the nation to reg-

Although it’s not always visible, SkiCo also invests intensively in

ulate methane leakage from drilling operations. Methane leakage from

clean energy. As you sail over that small pond beneath the Village

wellhead to power plant can more than counter the carbon benefits of

Express lift on Fanny Hill, you might not realize that the pond is a

using natural gas over coal. Stopping leakage is a key to solving the cli-

micro-hydroelectric plant. It generates 150,000 clean kilowatt hours

mate problem. Now, other states have a model… It’s likely the legislation

each year, keeping 150 tons of possible CO2 out of the atmosphere.

will be copied in places like Wyoming, New York and Pennsylvania.”

SkiCo has invested $1.1 million in 147 kW solar array at the Colorado

SkiCo is also active locally, working with Pitkin County, the City of Aspen

Rocky Mountain School in Carbondale. It generates 200,000 kilowatts

and local nonprofits such as the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies.

– enough electricity to power 20 homes – and it averts 200 tons of

Says Schendler, “Political leadership is essential because climate is

CO2 annually. SkiCo owns five other solar arrays; they power employ-

a big problem that is global in scale. Most people want to hear about

ee housing, the Sundeck, the Aspen Highlands Patrol Headquarters

what our resort is doing to cut our carbon footprint. We're doing a lot,

and a premier suite at the Little Nell.

but unfortunately that work is irrelevant when it comes to solving the

In 2013, SkiCo partnered in developing a methane-capturing

global problem. So the most important thing we can do as a business,

power plant at the Elk Creek Coal Mine in Somerset, Colorado. "It’s

and the most important thing individuals can do, is get politically active.

the first of its kind in the West and the largest in existence,” says

Tell your elected officials you want them to solve the climate problem.”

Schendler. “That project cut four percent of Holy Cross's entire

SkiCo’s website facilitates this with a “Take Action” section that

carbon footprint, greening the entire service area.”

links readers to their state and national representatives. Schendler

The benefits to this clean energy are multi-fold. Because leaking

also says that the company is “wide open” to community input. “We

methane has a “warming” capacity 86 times that of CO2, Skico’s 2014

work hard to embrace the idea that we don't have all the answers, but

Sustainability Report states that removing it eliminates “three times the

that we can get to the right answer if we're open to conversations.”

carbon dioxide equivalent that would have been created generating that

SkiCo’s own take-action steps include an Energy Reduction Plan

power at our local utility.” Each year, the Elk Creek methane plant earns

that sets goals with deliverables and timelines. That 2008 plan led

$150,000 in revenue while generating 24 million kilowatt hours of energy:

to hiring SkiCo’s first-ever energy manager, Aaron Shaffer. Under

enough to power four ski resorts, 17 restaurants and two luxury hotels.

Shaffer’s leadership, the Little Nell hotel received a significant energy overhaul that resulted in CO2 emissions savings of 300 tons a year.

Says Schendler, “We integrate operational sustainability into everything we do. That doesn't mean we're perfect or that we have no

These days, all new SkiCo buildings and renovations are de-

impact – far from it. But we're trying to run this business, which is an

signed to meet company energy codes that are often far more

economic engine and a huge part of the job and the tax base, in the

stringent than local codes.

least damaging way – and maybe even in a restorative way.”

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BASALT

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%SOLD/ ORIGINAL

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BEDS

$575,000 $679,000 $795,000 $745,000 $834,820 $834,820 $1,249,000 $1,795,000

$528,500 $557,500 $635,000 $735,000 $876,600 $888,266 $970,000 $1,625,000

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91% 100% 98% 89% 106% 97% 93% 95% 93%

506 75 102 185 533 79 79 253 223

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2 2 2 4 3 2 3 4 3

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3 3 2 2 3

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0 0 0 0 0

163.7 192.33 235.69 225.38 217.74

(This data is a sampling of sold properties from 10/1/15 to 10/31/15, Source: Aspen Glenwood MLS)

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ongratulations to Sonya Benson of

ond the buck will jump up (and even out!) of

Home and DistinctlyLuxe, two image-based

Aspen for winning our Roaring Fork

the frozen scene. Any art object that affects

social multimedia websites.

Lifestyle youth photo contest. Judging from the judges' comments, 15-year-old Benson knocked their socks off.

“When I opened Buck, I thought, 'Oh, Wow!'

Photographically it is very well done, good ex-

me like that is a winner for me.”

• Judy Hill Lovins, Old Snowmass, a pho-

Cath Adams sums up the judges’ senti-

tographic fine artist and art designer who

ments. “Sonya uses light, texture and com-

specializes in bringing the natural world's

position in a very artful manner!”

beauty into corporate work spaces.

THANKS TO OUR JUDGES

• Bill Kight, Public Affairs Officer for the

posure, looks sharp,” says Judy Hill Lovins. “I

Our judging panel included both profes-

love the story it tells, the strong horizontal lines

sional photographers and judges with pub-

poet and author.

in thirds and the buck dead in the middle!”

lishing backgrounds:

UPPER DIVISION HONORS

White River National Forest and a published

While Sonya Bensen’s Buck captured the

Jane Bachrach agrees, “The placement of

• Cath Adams of Greg & Cath Photogra-

the young buck in the center works in this case,

phers, Aspen, a professional wedding and

top spot in the Upper Division, Emma Chiles,

and I love the golden light. The dead naked

environmental photographer with than 20

15, of Aspen, earned two honorable mentions

branch on the right mimics not only the color

years experience. Cath is the originator of the

for a photo of a seal and a photo of a woman

of the deer, but also the shape of his antlers.”

If You Give a Kid Camera Workshops high-

sweeping a porch.

lighted in our October issue.

JUNIOR DIVISION WINNER

“Normally my vision in a photo travels from left to right, but here my eyes go straight to

• Jane Bachrach, Cardondale, photogra-

Natalie Simecek, 14, of Blue Lake,

the center, to the buck. For a few seconds

pher and writer for the Sopris Sun since its

charmed the judges with a photo of girls

I focus intently on the fine detail,” com-

founding in 2009.

with umbrellas. Jane Bachrach comments,

ments Bill Kight. “But next, I step back, not

• Rick French, Glenwood Springs, publish-

“I like the composition and the fact that the

wanting to get run over, feeling that any sec-

er of Roaring Fork Lifestyle and owner DCD

photo tells a story of three girlfriends tak-

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ing a stroll down a cobblestone street in the rain. I like that the photographer included some of the brick sidewalk and part of the window box. If it weren’t for the American flag, I would have thought that this was shot somewhere in Europe.”

Bill Kight says, “Although I feel the scene seems contrived, it doesn't matter to me. If staged, so what? It was fun. But I want to know more. Who are these people? Where are they going?

What city? I was engaged and I like art that makes me smile.” In answer to Kight’s questions, Simecek took the photo during a school trip to Boston; the girls are all students from Basalt.

Madison Diaz, 12, of Marble earned an honorable mention for Snowy Street, and Jor-

dan Wilensky, 12, of Glenwood Springs, merited an honorable mention for Grasses.

ELEMENTARY DIVISION HONORS

Michael Hjerleid, age 9, of Carbondale, won the youngest division with Hole to the Sky. Judy

Hill Lovins comments, “Dynamic subject, love the striated clouds, composition has nice thirds with central pow! The clouds and the deep shadow give this image great motion. Good job.”

Two sisters from Aspen, Leila Baker, age 8, and Gemma Baker, age 9, each merited honorable mentions in the Elementary Division. Of Leila’s photo Shattered Glass, Jane Bachrach says, “Before I looked at the title of Leila’s photo, I couldn’t figure out how the photographer obtained that effect. The fact that she thought to shoot through shattered glass shows me that she has some imagination.”

Cath Adams praises Gemma’s Chicken at Rock Bottom Ranch. “I like how 3.

the "Rule of Thirds" and use of lines were accomplished. I am drawn to the chicken's face, which is not centered in the frame...”

Many thanks to our judges and to the 22 talented photographers, ages 6 to 17, who entered our contest. Entries came from Aspen, Basalt, Blue Lake, Carbondale, Glenwood Springs, Snowmass Village and Marble.

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Tech Savvy

Viewing Ocean Rise from High and Dry and Over a Mile High COASTAL RISK CONSULTING LED BY TWO ROARING FORK VALLEY RESIDENTS ARTICLE NICOLETTE TOUSSAINT

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hen Hurricane Sandy hit in October, 2012, Robert Hubbell was directing worldwide marketing for the investment bank Cantor

Fitzgerald and BGC Partners in New York City. “We had to vacate traders and work stations in one location on the aptly-named Water Street,” he recalls. “It took almost five months to recover. I lived in New Jersey and saw first-hand all the damage done there and on nearby Staten Island.”

When Hubbell retired to the Roaring Fork Valley in 2014 – high and dry at 6,181 feet above sea level – he wasn’t thinking much about storm surge and ocean levels. That is until he met Albert Slap during a tennis match in Snowmass.

Slap, who lives part-time in Snowmass and part-time in Fort Lauderdale, happens to be one of the country’s leading environmental attorneys. From 2004 to 2009, he was the director of the Nature Conservan-

more frequent and harsher storms will mean. But that information hasn’t

cy’s Colorado River Program, and the award-winning attorney served

been easily accessible to individual homeowners. Slap, CEO of Coastal

as counsel in the first lawsuit to force a local government (Miami-Dade

Risk Consulting, says he wants to “democratize” flood risk assessments.

County) to prepare its infrastructure for climate change.

CRC’s Coastal Risk Rapid Assessment Report, an online, 30-year

After playing doubles with friends, Slap and Hubbell discovered they

“vulnerability assessment” is available to anyone willing to pay a mod-

both had attended the University of Pennsylvania. According to Slap,

est fee and enter a property address on the company’s website at

they “immediately bonded through our shared Sixties’ Penn experiences

CoastalRiskConsulting.com. The resulting report incorporates “big

and love of tennis.” Slap eventually wound up asking Hubbell if he’d han-

data” from FEMA, the National Flood Insurance Program, the U.S. Army

dle marketing for his startup called Coastal Risk Consulting, LLC.

Corps of Engineers' Sea Level Rise Model, and tidal, ground water and

The company’s mission is to help billions of coastal residents, busi-

land-subsidence records. CRC algorithms generate a flood-projection

nesses and governments to get “climate-ready and storm safe”. Us-

scorecard called First Score that breaks down the number of projected

ing LIDAR remote sensing technology and mashing up cloud-based

“nuisance flooding” days in five-year increments.

geo-spatial data and analytics, Coastal Risk Consulting (CRC) cre-

CRC has already provided risk reports to scores of coastal residential

ates climate impact “flood vulnerability assessments”. Those assess-

properties in Florida, Maryland, Delaware, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New

ments predict what will happen to individual coastal properties as a

York, Virginia, South Carolina, Texas and Washington. Its customers also in-

result of high tides, storm surges, heavy rainfall and rising sea levels.

clude the City of Miami, two nuclear power stations, a military airfield, Atlan-

Hubbell, who is now CRC’s vice president of marketing, ob-

tic Broadband, Duke Realty and the Boca Raton Executive Country Club.

serves that homeowners and prospective home-buyers in coast-

Currently, CRC is attracting venture capital with the goal of auto-

al areas typically don’t know how much risk their properties face.

mating a geo-spatial modeling process that uses cloud computing to

More than 50 million pieces of U.S. coastal property now need

provide flood risk assessments to anyone, anywhere.

flood risk analysis, and that number will grow.

The Union of Concerned Scientists reports that between 1957 and 2007, “the amount of rain or snow falling in the heaviest one percent

Luckily for Slap and Hubbell, technology now makes it possible for them to sit high and dry in their Snowmass and Carbondale home offices while assessing coastline properties and serving clients worldwide.

of storms has risen nearly 20 percent on average in the United States,”

Does that mean that they feel immune to climate change?

threatening areas previously thought safe from flooding. As a result,

Not really. While demurring that he’s “not a scientist,” Hub-

“agencies such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administra-

bell says, “One of the things I have learned is the inter-con-

tion, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the U.S. Geo-

nectedness of climate, about El Niño and what happens

logical Survey, among others, are working to gather information that

here with the snow pack and summer water supplies, about

can be used to redraw flood maps to help anticipate vulnerable areas.”

rising sea levels and wilder hurricanes and storms around

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What Affects Global Warming?

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Cool Ways to Help Here in the Roaring Fork Valley

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he planet has warmed 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit since the 1800s, and as a result, the effects of climate change are impacting the Roaring Fork Valley through its people, environment, recreation, wildlife and water.

North America’s winter snowpack is melting faster and

ARTICLE ANDREA PALM-PORTER PHOTOGRAPHY PROVIDED Colorado's state animal is threatened by warming temperatures.

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The Natural Resources Defense Council states, "global warming is the single greatest threat to the survival of trout in America’s interior West."

even disappearing in places. Its loss means drought for crops and cities throughout the American Southwest. By the 2020s, for example, loss of Sierra and Colorado River basin snowpack is likely to threaten more than 40 percent of Southern California's water supply.

Within 30 years, more than half of the 103 ski resorts in the Northeast may close because of warming climate.

In our own Roaring Fork Valley, winter recreation could be eliminated by 2100 – taking with it real estate values and a great deal of our tourist-dependent economic activity.

The average temperatures in Aspen could rise three to 10 degrees by 2080. This would impact not only the ski industry, but also the area’s ecology. By 2100, aspen trees, sub-alpine firs, elk, deer, bighorn sheep and pikas could be endangered or gone.

Our valley is using available resources to educate, to use resources wisely and to take action. Take the City of Aspen for example; Aspen’s electric utility now runs on 100 percent renewable power. Aspen Skiing Company (ASC) is taking steps that range from banning incandescent light bulbs and constructing five LEED Gold-rated buildings to developing a power plant that turns methane into electric power plant and eliminates three times ASC’s carbon emissions annually.

(See Getting Green Done at Aspen Skiing Company in this issue.)

Downvalley, Garfield Clean Energy has helped save $1.7 million in energy costs while CLEER (Clean Energy Economy for the Region) has organized 10 local governments into an intergovernmental collaborative that is working to reach aggressive energy efficiency and clean energy targets.

Semi-rural economies in and around the Roaring Fork Valley rely in part on recreational activities. For example, hunting, fishing, ranching and recreation in the Thompson Divide area support nearly 300 jobs and generate $30 million in annual economic value. The area’s clean water, clean air, rural and agricultural heritage, in addition to its recreational and sporting activities, are threatened by oil and gas development activities that contribute to global warming.

Both loss of snowpack and declining water quality threaten Colorado’s recreation and agriculture. A statewide water plan – a first-ever blueprint for keeping rivers and streams health – was unveiled by the Colorado Water Conservation Board in November.

David Nickum, executive director of Colorado Trout Unlimited, says that “the Colorado Water Plan recognizes that healthy rivers are central to Colorado’s quality of life and help drive our booming, $13 billion recreation economy. If we want a future of Gold Medal trout rivers and outdoor opportunities, we need to plan for that future – and this plan is a step in the right direction.”

Even before the days of Teddy Roosevelt, recreationalists led the way as conservationists and environmentalists. It has always been in their best interest to preserve the wildlife and the habitat it needs, so perhaps its not surprising that Trout Unlimited is working with farmers and ranchers, primarily here on the Western Slope, to help them modernize irrigation techniques. The new water plan and the Colorado General Assembly are helping to provide incentives and funding to farmers and ranchers who change their irrigation techniques.

Tyler Baskfield, Colorado sportsman coordinator for Trout Unlimited, commented, “Whether we want a pristine place to hunt and fish, to be able to enjoy the backcountry on a hike, or to camp in an area without seeing the scars of oil and gas development, or to preserve a lifestyle and livelihood based off the land, large expanses of healthy ecosystems and habitat are critical.” He says that one exciting development, both in the Thompson Divide and in other western areas, is “sportsmen, the agricultural community and environmentalists working together to be more effective at protecting our interests. ” It boils down to each resident in our valley pitching in and working hand-in-hand with neighbors.

See page 34 for 10 ways to get started.

CONTINUED >

Palisade peach orchards are irrigated with water from the Colorado River, water that comes from our snowpack.

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GLOBAL WARMING (CON TI N U ED)

Ten Actions You Can Take 1) Defend Thompson Divide. You don't have to be a scientist to understand that conserving large tracks of healthy habitat provides a defense against threats to both wildlife and the environment, whether the threat comes from global warming, habitat fragmentation or water quality degradation. Roaring Fork Valley residents can protect 220,000 acres of quality habitat by letting the Bureau of Land Management know that they think the Thompson Divide should be protected.

2) Join a conservation organization. It will amplify your pro-wildlife voice. Even teaching kids to hunt, fish or develop a pas-

The pika is suffering from shrinking habitat as it retreats to higher elevations to escape rising temperatures.

sion for wildlife helps because it ensures that in the future, there will be advocates for the best interests of wildlife and the environment.

3) Cut your energy use. Start by scheduling a home energy assessment. Aspen CORE (AspenCore.org) and CLEER (CleanEnergyEconomy.net) work to create measurable improvements in energy and water efficiency, and they can show local residents how to gain rebates and low-interest loans. “Residences and businesses produce the most greenhouse gas emissions because heat is used to power them. This is where a lot of energy is wasted,” comments Aspen CORE’s Lucy Kessler.

4) Compost your organics. “The easiest change you can make that directly effects climate change would be to compost your food waste including meat, bone dairy, tissue, paper towel, waxed cardboard, single-use compostable dinnerware, yard waste and more,” says Alyssa Reindel of EverGreen Events, a Carbondale-based, zero-waste green event and sustainability service. “By composting, you’re keeping resources in the loop while preventing the creation of methane, a greenhouse gas more than 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide when it comes to trapping heat in the atmosphere.”

5) Eat everything in the fridge. Scientists estimate that up to 40 percent of American food is wasted. Food waste adds methane to the atmosphere as it decomposes in landfills. Wasted food also adds to the amount that must be produced, and food production is already a big part of our carbon load.

6) Bring your own. Klean Kanteen created the #BringYourOwn water bottle project to inspire a new conversation around eliminating single-use packages and waste in the environment. Learn more at KleanKanteen.com.

7) Check out “Waste-Free Roaring Fork.” Aspen CORE provides a handy resource guide on how to reduce, reuse and recycle at AspenCore.org/Waste-Reduction.

Randy Melton owner of Avalanche Outfitters in the Thompson Divide, is one of many locals whose livelihood depends on a healthy environment. Photo by Joshua Duplechian, Trout Unlimited)

8) Get a charge out of solar! A device like EnerPlex Kickr will allow you to use the sun to charge your phone, tablet and laptop.

9) Ride RFTA. One person who makes a 20 mile-round trip to work and switches to public transportation can reduce his or her annual CO2 emissions by 4,800 pounds per year. Solo commuting can make up half of your household carbon footprint. At RFTA.com/Carbon, the Roaring Fork Transportation Authority has an online calculator that shows how much carbon you’ll save by taking the bus.

10) Share! Take what you learn to help our environment and inspire the next person to do the same.

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Health Centers GROWING TO MEET THE NEED ARTICLE BRIDGET GREY | PHOTOGRAPHY PROVIDED

“W

e want to ensure is that there is

Mountain Family Health Centers opened ad-

ing meals, making beds

an affordable choice in the most

ditional clinics in Basalt and Rifle in 2011, and in

and doing jobs that lots

un-affordable area in country,” says Ross

Edwards in 2014. It now provides primary care,

of higher-income people

Brooks, the chief executive officer for Moun-

dental, and behavioral health services to over

don’t know exist.” To serve

tain Family Health Centers.

15,000 rural residents living in the Colorado

the working poor, Moun-

Rockies. (The Blackhawk clinic closed in 2014.)

tain Family Health Care

That’s a tall order. In 2014, Colorado’s "Rocky Mountain Resort Region" – Eagle,

Despite the challenges mountain commu-

gets help from the state,

Summit, Pitkin and Garfield counties – had

nities continue to face – or perhaps because

counties, federal govern-

the nation’s highest health insurance costs.

of them – Mountain Family Health Centers is

ment, hospitals and pri-

While the Roaring Fork Valley isn’t presently

planning for serious growth. Noting that all

vate grants. To meet this

in the top spot, Brooks says, “We are certain-

four of its health centers are currently near

growing need, they could

ly going to be right up there again.”

or at capacity, Brooks explains, “We need the

use more help.

But Mountain Family Health Centers has a

community to come together so that we can

“One of the common misconceptions is that

history of taking on challenges. The company

expand our sites and services. In Basalt, for

we are free clinic,” Brooks continues. “We’re

was born in 1978 in Blackhawk, back when

example, we don’t have a dentist. We would

not. You come in and declare your income.

the former mining town was tiny and remote.

like to add one. We also want to expand the

People pay on a sliding-fee scale. Some folks

The local family doctor would treat anyone

number of behavioral providers on site. We’d

pay $20 per visit. But patients themselves do

who came knocking, whatever the hour, day

like to do the same in Edwards.”

pay for their care; everyone contributes.”

or night. He worked out of his home, and his

The need for affordable health care in the

“We believe that affordable health care

fees were whatever the patient felt like pay-

communities that Mountain Family serves

is a human right and that we should pro-

ing. When he retired, residents faced a crisis.

is being keenly felt. Because Colorado

vide it for our friends and neighbors,” says

A group of them banded together, formed

HealthOp, the state’s biggest nonprofit health

Brooks. “That’s why we want to grow our

a non-profit, raised money and wrote grants.

insurer, is closing, about 7,000 policyholders in

partnerships. We in-

They renovated and equipped a small clinic

Eagle, Garfield, Pitkin and Summit counties

vite people who share

in an 1800’s building that had been donated

are scrambling to find new insurance. Even

our beliefs to invest in

by the local Veterans of Foreign Wars. Along

those unaffected by HealthOP are facing

those partnerships.”

the way, they founded a mountain institution.

hefty increases. Congressman Jared Polis is

For more on MFHC, visit

Over the next couple of decades, their

worried about double-digit rate hikes. “This

MountainFamily.org.

nonprofit grew, adding clinics in other needy

kind of increase simply doesn’t work for our

mountain towns and eventually changing its

community, and it will cause people to drop

name to Columbine Family Health Centers.

their health care because they can’t afford it.”

In 1998, when the only pediatric practice

Brooks echos that concern and cites some

willing to accept Medicaid suddenly closed

statistics: Garfield, Eagle and Pitkin counties

its doors in Glenwood Springs, it was Col-

are home to more than 32,000 people who

umbine that responded. Thanks to both lo-

earn below 200 percent of the federal pov-

cal medical professionals and funders such

erty line. Many of them work multiple jobs,

as the Caring for Colorado Foundation, the

and they are “sometimes undocumented.”

Boettcher Foundation and the Aspen Com-

Although Mountain Family’s clinics accept

munity Foundation, a new clinic named

Medicare and Medicaid, as well as insurance

Mountain Family Health Center opened

coverage, more than one-third of the 15,000

in 1999 – albeit in a cramped 1,200 square

patients they serve are uninsured.

foot facility with just four exam rooms and two healthcare providers.

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JANUARY 20 & 21 NATURALIST NIGHTS THIRD STREET CENTER, CARBONDALE Natural History and Winter Ecology of the Red Fox. A talk by Patrick Magee, Ph.D., Thornton Biology Research Program, Western Colorado State Uni-

JANUARY 2 - 4

JANUARY 12

DUNDEE MEMORIAL DOGWASH

PAGES, PINTS, AND PIZZAS

Center. Program repeats on January 21 in Aspen.

HIGH TAILS

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Free. See WildernessWorkshop.org for details.

For a $15 donation, High Tails will bathe your

The Glenwood Springs Branch Library will

dog and trim his nails. No appointments nec-

host an evening of spirited conversation and

JANUARY 21

essary. This benefit has raised money for a

literary meanderings beginning at 6:30 p.m.

LOCAL STORYTELLERS

beagle who needed a wheel chair, a cat who

Grab a slice, a brew and talk books. Since

GLENWOOD SPRINGS BRANCH LIBRARY

needed a leg amputated and a pomeranian

this is the first meeting of this book group,

Winter Lecture series presented by the Frontier

who was attacked by a raccoon! Open noon

the pizza is free! For more information, call

Historical Society and the Glenwood Springs

to 4 p.m. with refreshments from Sweet Colo-

970.945.5958 or email sschnitzer@gcpld.org.

Branch Library. This month we will feature lo-

radough, Starbucks and homemade goodies!

JANUARY 6 & 7

JANUARY 13 & 14 NATURALIST NIGHTS

versity. 4:30 to 7 p.m. at Carbondale’s Third Street

cal storytellers. Light refreshments served.

Starts at 7 p.m. Free. For more information, call 970.945.5958 or email sschnitzer@gcpld.org.

NATURALIST NIGHTS

THIRD STREET CENTER

THIRD STREET CENTER

Mountain Lions: The Challenges of Advocat-

JANUARY 23 & 24

Should Wolves Be Restored to Colorado? A talk

ing for Their Conservation, a talk by Wendy

CIRQUE D’SOPRIS

by Delia Malone, Wildlife Team Chairperson,

Keefover, native carnivore protection manag-

ROARING FORK HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM

Sierra Club, Rocky Mountain Chapter, 4:30

er for the Humane Society of the U.S. 4:30

The incredibly creative youth of the Roaring

to 7 p.m. at Carbondale’s Third Street Center.

to 7 pm at Carbondale’s Third Street Center.

Fork Valley will be sharing their designer cre-

Free. Program repeats in Aspen on January 7.

Free. Program repeats in Aspen on January

ations during Cirque D’Sopris on January 23 at

Details at WildernessWorkshop.org.

14. Details at WildernessWorkshop.org.

6 p.m. and January 24 is at 1 p.m. This show

JANUARY 8, 15, 22 & 29

JANUARY 13

FRIDAY AFTERNOON CLUB

A CLASS & A GLASS

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JANUARY 23

Locals can enjoy the park this winter with

Clay Center for A Class & A Glass from

LUNAFEST

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5:30 to 7 p.m. This month’s class will feature

HOTEL COLORADO

tain. Featuring live music and food and

Valentine’s Day clay crafts; create a hand-

A festival of short films that vary in style

drink specials from 5 to 8:30 p.m. on Fridays

made gift while sipping on one of Marble

and content, LunaFest is united by a com-

through February 26. Guests can ride the

Distilling Company’s signature cocktails.

mon thread of exceptional storytelling; these

tram free after 4 p.m. when they mention

$20 for both class and glass. Registra-

are films by, for and about women. Film de-

FAC at the tram base. Info at 970.945.4228 or

tion not required. Call 970.963.7008 or see

tails at LunaFest.org. Benefit for Advocate

GlenwoodChamber.com/events.

MarbleDistilling.com for details.

Safehouse Project, which works to promote

features youth fashion creations, dancing, acrobatic feats and more! For time and details, visit CarbondaleArts.com or call 970.963.1680.

healthy relationships free from violence.

JANUARY 8

JANUARY 15

DOCUMENTARY ON PAUL TAYLOR

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LAUNCHPAD

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Dance Initiative will screen a documentary

Opening reception for the Valley Visual

JANUARY 27 & 28

film on the highly acclaimed American cho-

Art Show (VVAS), a 36-year annual tradi-

NATURALIST NIGHTS

reographer Paul Taylor. For nearly 60 years,

tion at the Carbondale Council for Arts and

THIRD STREET CENTER, CARBONDALE

Taylor has been reinventing the roles of mu-

Humanities. VVAS provides an opportuni-

The Hungry Bird – What Birds Eat. A talk by Da-

sic, movement and theme in dance. Creative

ty for over 60 Roaring Fork artists to show

vid Leatherman, author and former forest ento-

Domain is a rare in-depth documentary about

two- and three-dimensional work in many

mologist at Colorado State Forest Service. 4:30

how he creates a single dance. Free. For more

media. Show is open Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.

to 7 p.m. at Carbondale’s Third Street Center.

info, see PaulTaylorCreativeDomain.com

to 5 p.m. though February 20. For info, see

Free. Program repeats on January 28 in Aspen.

and DanceInitiative.org.

CarbondaleArts.com or call 970.963.1680.

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DENTISTS & ORTHODONTICS Jack B. Hilty (970) 945-1185 hiltyortho.com

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ENTERTAINMENT & RECREATION

HOME DESIGN & FURNISHINGS Chamberlains Closets & Cupboards (970) 945-1209

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Parting Thoughts

A Dad’s Advice: Resolutions for a Good Life WORDS EVAN ZISLIS | PICTURES MIDGE DALLAS

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ear Kids: Your mom has asked me to say some things your dad would

tell you if he was still living. I didn’t know your dad, but I know he loved you more than life itself. I know because I’m a dad too.

I’m sorry your dad is gone, but there’s no permanence in life.

We’re all here for a moment or two. Then we’re gone: a memory, a room full of stuff, a closet full of clothes, a box of pictures left behind. We all think we have more time.

So go live, but first, here are 10 resolutions that are good for every year:

to laugh about our silliness, but remember to share your good humor with a little sensitivity.

• Learn. We stop living when we stop learning. Our brains have evolved to learn, adapt, innovate, overcome, solve problems and work things out. Commit yourself to a life of learning and you’ll never be bored. You’ll always feel inspired to evolve.

• Practice integrity. Integrity is doing what you say you'll do – or making it right if you can’t. People will remember you based on the promises you keep and the way you follow through with heart.

• Forgive. Forgiveness is the key to love. It’s what allows a broken

• Cry. As humans, we’re wired to feel better after a good cry. The

heart to heal. Forgiveness sets us free. Speak your mind honestly and

same is true for smiling. Mirror neurons in our brains pick up the emo-

openly – but in the end, forgive.

tions of those around us, so spend more time with people who are

• Love. Love is not what you say or what you feel but what you do. It’s

happy, courageous, kind and fun.

reliably showing up with integrity. It’s a willingness to sacrifice, compromise,

• Stay clear-headed. Go easy on the things people get addicted

commit and share everything you have – and everything you are. It’s a

to; they’re just distractions. They dull our senses and keep us on the

promise to be your authentic self – good, bad, or ugly. These are my three

sidelines. Sobriety gets us back in the game where the rewards are

non-negotiables: 1) No hitting, 2) No cheating, and 3) No saying “I hate you”

tangible. Remember: no powders, no needles, no recreational pre-

when you’re angry. Love grows with compassion, empathy and kindness.

scription pills. Go easy on booze and loveless sex. The good life is

• Be courageous. Courage picks us up when we’re down and helps

maintaining enough sobriety to know when you’ve had enough.

us stand a little taller. It helps us get through the day, even when all we

• Believe. Believe you can, and you can. You’re worth it, but no one will give

want to do is hide. It helps us ask for a raise, explore new opportunities

it to you; you have to go get it. There will be setbacks, triumphs – and also epic

and defend those who need protection (including ourselves). Courage

journeys that lead to places far off the beaten path. Look around and see the

is your friend, so nurture it. But do it quietly and with a little compassion.

abundance in everything. Know that you’re right where you need to be. (Un-

• Be humble. Learn the delicate balance between courage and

less you’re not – and then scoot right out of there!) Learn from your mistakes;

humility. Strength doesn’t mean overconfidence and courage doesn’t

they’re blessings, every one. Go easy on yourself. Above all, be intentional.

require fearlessness. We can be both bold and gentle, tough and kind,

Evan Zislis, a professional organizer and strategies consultant, wrote

brave and vulnerable. Humility is the sweet spot between arrogance

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• Laugh. Laughter is the best medicine and it makes life more fun.

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