Table of Contents
Foreword Mayor John Hickenlooper xv
Introduction Beth Conover xix
Part 1 Culture And Consumption
Climate Revelations-God, Climate, and Hope Auden Schendler 3
The Next West Stephen Trimble 13
Salvation for the Climate Todd Hartman 19
The Universe on Blacktop (My Day of Saving 66 Million BTUs) Laura Pritchett 27
Urban Chickens-Locavorism and its Discontents David Akerson 31
Climate Tourism in Kilimanjaro Mark Eddy 38
Taking Vern Home-A Carbon-Neutral Eco-Travel Journal Lisa Jones 43
Cooking for the Climate Sean Kelly 50
Coyote Commons-Beyond the Proverbial Lightbulb Jackson Perrin Dev Carey 55
Eco-Consumerism Diane Carman 60
Part 2 Natural Resources
Science
Glacier National Park-Portrait of a Place, an Agency, and a Climate Scientist Michael Jamison 72
Climate in Geologic Time and My Lifetime Kirk Johnson 80
Snow And Water
The River Dry Peter Heller 90
No-Regrets Strategies for Climate Change Marc Waage 94
Managing the Uncertainties of the Colorado River System Eric Kuhn 100
Water in the Rockies-A Twenty-First-Century Zero-Sum Game Brad Udall 111
Land
Zephyr to Zion-Train of Thoughts in a Warming West John Daley 122
It Ain't Your Father's Farming-New Mind-Sets and New Practices in the Age of Climate Change Susan Moran 129
Dead Trees Jim Robbins 136
Grand County-Life among the Pine Beetles Hillary Rosner 142
What's Killing the Aspen? The Signature Tree of the Rockies Is in Trouble Michelle Nijhuis 149
The New Imperative-Land Conservation and Climate Change Tim Sullivan 153
Country in Overdrive-Land Use, Transportation, and Climate in the West Jocelyn Hittle Ken Snyder 159
Part 3 Commerce And Industry
The Big Bonfire-What ColoradoCan Learn from the Samso Experiment James R. Udall 172
Running Down an Up Escalator-Reducing Colorado's Electric-Sector Carbon Emissions James R. Udall 180
Getting the Fear Todd Neff 189
Pioneering Sustainable Business Catherine Greener 197
Green Spark-Adventures of a Green Venture Capitalist Martha Records 204
First, Do No Harm-Green Building and the Precautionary Principle Josh Radoff 210
The Changing Rules of Energy Finance Matthew H. Brown 216
The Colorado Carbon Fund-Tapping into the Voluntary Green Market to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions Susan Innis 222
It's a Wonderful Life-Natural Gas as a Bridge to the New Energy Economy Michael L. Beatty 227
Oil Scarcity and Climate Change Steve Andrews 233
Part 4 Policy And Politics
Red, Blue, and Green-The Western Political Realignment Jill Hanauer David Winkler Lisa Grove Melissa Chernaik Andrew Myers 243
Homegrown Security Chip Ward 251
Retool for Your Next Mission Florence Williams 259
Lessons from across the Pond Heidi VanGenderen 265
Journalism and the Scientific Consensus on Global Warming Jason Salzman 271
Green City Leadership Beth Conover 277
Afterword Governor Bill Ritter Jr. 287
Acknowledgments 289
Contributing Artists 291
About the Editor 253
