How the West was warmed : responding to climate change in the Rockies / Beth Conover, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Conover, Beth.

Series:

Speaker's Corner

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--Rocky Mountains Region.

Climatic changes.

Climatic changes--West (U.S.).

Rocky Mountains Region--Climate.

Rocky Mountains Region.

West (U.S.)--Climate.

West (U.S.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 p.)

Place of Publication:

Golden, CO : Fulcrum Pub., 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Stories from communities and individuals who are responding to climate change and making a difference.

Contents:

Foreword by Mayor John Hickenlooper; Introduction by Beth Conover; PART ONE: Culture and Consumption; Auden Schendler: Climate Revelations-God, Climate, and Hope; Stephen Trimble: The Next West; Todd Hartman: Salvation for the Climate; Laura Pritchett: The Universe on Blacktop (My Day of Saving 66 Million BTUs); David Akerson: Urban Chickens-Locavorism and its Discontents; Mark Eddy: Climate Tourism in Kilimanjaro; Lisa Jones: Taking Vern Home-A Carbon-Neutral Eco-Travel Journal; Sean Kelly: Cooking for the Climate; Jackson Perrin and Dev Carey: Coyote Commons-Beyond the Proverbial Lightbulb

Diane Carman: Eco-ConsumerismPART TWO: natural resourCes; Michael Jamison: Glacier National Park-Portrait of a Place, an Agency,and a Climate Scientist; Kirk Johnson: Climate in Geologic Time and My Lifetime; Peter Heller: The River Dry; Marc Waage: No-Regrets Strategies for Climate Change; Eric Kuhn: Managing the Uncertainties of the Colorado River System; Brad Udall: Water in the Rockies-A Twenty-First-Century Zero-Sum Game; John Daley: Zephyr to Zion-Train of Thoughts in a Warming West; Susan Moran: It Ain't Your Father's Farming-New Mind-Sets and New Practicesin the Age of Climate Change

Hillary Rosner: Grand County-Life among the Pine BeetlesMichelle Nijhuis: What's Killing the Aspen? The Signature Tree of the RockiesIs in Trouble; Tim Sullivan: The New Imperative-Land Conservation and Climate Change; Jocelyn Hittle and Ken Snyder: Country in Overdrive-Land Use, Transportation,and Climate in the West; James R. Udall: The Big Bonfire-What Colorado Can Learnfrom the Samso Experiment; The Staff of Holy Cross Energy and Energy Analyst James R. Udall: Running Downan Up Escalator-Reducing Colorado's Electric-Sector Carbon Emissions; Todd Neff: Getting the Fear

Catherine Greener: Pioneering Sustainable BusinessMartha Records: Green Spark-Adventures of a Green Venture Capitalist; Josh Radoff: First, Do No Harm-Green Building and thePrecautionary Principle; Matthew H. Brown: The Changing Rules of Energy Finance; Susan Innis: The Colorado Carbon Fund-Tapping into the Voluntary GreenMarket to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Michael L. Beatty: It's a Wonderful Life-Natural Gas as a Bridge to theNew Energy Economy; Steve Andrews: Oil Scarcity and Climate Change

Jill Hanauer, David Winkler, Lisa Grove, Melissa Chernaik, and Andrew Myers:Red, Blue, and Green-The Western Political RealignmentChip Ward: Homegrown Security; Florence Williams: Retool for Your Next Mission; Heidi VanGenderen: Lessons from across the Pond; Jason Salzman: Journalism and the Scientific Consensus on Global Warming; Beth Conover: Green City Leadership; Afterword by Governor Bill Ritter Jr; Acknowledgments; Contributing Artists; About the Editor

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-936218-03-8

OCLC:

609854005