Q: Under your leadership, DU has taken a number of steps to become a better environmental citizen, including expanding recycling, purchasing wind energy, building “green” and signing onto the college Climate Commitment. Why is DU’s commitment to sustainability so important to you? A: It’s important to me personally, but more […]
For Marc Kessler (BA environmental science ’85), embracing his love of nature and the great outdoors meant always choosing a job that allowed him to be outside. Today, as owner of California Organic Flowers, he not only gets to spend every day under the sun, but he gets “to be […]
KVDU who’s who Reading Page 35 of your spring 2008 magazine [Alumni Connections], I noted that Robert Mott identified Greg Guinan as standing to his right in the photo (pictured at right). I believe that Greg is actually to Mott’s left. Greg was a senior at my high school in […]
A miracle dwells in a forest cathedral buttressed by soaring cottonwoods draped with garlands of wild grape. In a willow amidst a thicket of wild plum and rose, the miracle — a hummingbird — sits on a downy nest no bigger than a demitasse. This dainty, winged grace — at […]
In some past a person of learning and poetry believed migrating birds spent winter on the moon… Aristotle argued they sleep under mud of marshes and the big ones gave rides to the little. Nocturnal migrants inspire a desire to know the arts of the bird and the pleasures of […]
Never say the student lawyers in the Environmental Law Clinic back down from a challenge. In the spring semester, University of Denver Sturm College of Law students in the clinic made themselves felt, taking on energy giant Xcel, the Colorado Division of Wildlife and the federal government, all on behalf […]
The University’s drive for “green” buildings is encountering an inconvenient truth. In the world of environmentally friendly structures, “silver, gold and platinum” designations don’t always glitter as much as officials would like. It’s a perplexing paradox, says University Architect Mark Rodgers: Getting the best green designation may not always be […]
Can Colorado provide enough water for a growing population?
Colorado’s powder-covered mountains have long been a top destination for skiers and snowboarders from around the globe. Every year from Thanksgiving through the end of March, the glistening white peaks turn into one of the world’s biggest playgrounds. But climate forecasts predict the Rockies will stay lushly green for ever […]
Skyrocketing atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations have begun to bake our planet, triggering heated debates about our heavy reliance on fossil fuels and the need to diversify our power sources. Exactly what the United States’ future energy portfolio will look like is not yet clear, but one of the beneficiaries of […]