Peak Environment
By Dave Gardner
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Episodes: 146
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Environmental stewardship, sustainable living and enlightened public policy in the Pikes Peak Region.
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146: Joyful Holiday Tips to Help Minimize Waste
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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145: Bright Idea: Conserving Energy
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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144: Arts and Culture in the Pikes Peak Region
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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143: Clearing the Air about Nuclear - Exploring the Pros and Cons of Nuclear Energy
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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142: Water Crisis
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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141: Vermijo Community Garden
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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140: Sustainability in Progress: Regional Transportation Planning Update
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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139: Promoting Housing Affordability, Access and Production in the Pikes Peak Region
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May 31, 2025 |
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138: Examining Air Quality in Colorado’s Pikes Peak Region
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May 02, 2025 |
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137: Fountain Creek Water Quality – What the Data Tells Us
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May 02, 2025 |
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136: Spring Cleaning - Every Nook & Cranny
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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135: The Future of Fountain Creek - Panel and Community Discussion
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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134: Connecting Colorado with the Outdoors - Great Outdoors Colorado and Generation Wild
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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133: Wildtending, Ancient Skills, & Listening to Nature
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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132: COS Creek Plan: Dramatic Changes for Monument and Fountain Creeks
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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131: Art, Hope, and 2025 – an Update from 350 Colorado
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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130: Shifting the Status Quo of Development
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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129: Concrete Couch & Concrete Coyote – Art and Sustainability
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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128: Ecosystems as Models for Restoring our Economies (to a sustainable state)
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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127: Permablitz
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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126: Life Happens. Be Ready
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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125: A Fossil Free Future - Meet 350 Colorado
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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124: Circular Economy Assistance for Colorado Businesses
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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123: Deep Nature Connection
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Jul 14, 2024 |
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122: Plants – Those That Take Care of Us
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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121: Native Yards for Native Pollinators
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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120: Water Conservation: Where We’re At and How to Be Part of the Change
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May 01, 2024 |
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119: Overcoming Obstacles to Recycling
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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118: Transition Towns - Community, Resilience, Independence, and Permaculture
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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117 City of Fountain Sustainability Update
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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116: Colorado Springs Sustainability Update
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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115: Plastic Bags Update & Moving Toward Zero Waste: Policy Wins, Advice and Resources
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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114: In and Outs of a Permaculture Design Certification
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Jan 27, 2024 |
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113: Poor Richard's Rubbish Roundup
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Dec 31, 2023 |
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112: Have Yourself a Low Impact Holiday
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Nov 18, 2023 |
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111: Colorado Clean Energy Legislation
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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110: Permaculture Principles - Part 2 of 2
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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109: How to Love the Outdoors: Leave No Trace
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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108: Permaculture Principles Part 1 of 2
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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107: Denver Public Schools’ Climate Action Plan
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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106: How the Pikes Peak Summit Visitor Center is Meeting Environmental Challenges
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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105: Connecting Children to Nature with Permaculture
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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104: Sustainability in Progress: Wildfire Mitigation
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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103 Permaculture Education in the Pikes Peak Region
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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102 Community Gardens, Sustainable COS and Westside Community Center
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Jun 10, 2023 |
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101 Plans for Trails, Open Space and Parks
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May 31, 2023 |
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100 El Paso County Parks Master Plan
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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99 Where to Get Great Local Food
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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98 Building Resilient Community Relationships with Land
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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97 RetoolCOS: Modernizing Colorado Springs’ Zoning and Subdivision Policies
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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96 Waste and Recycling in Colorado
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Jan 28, 2023 |
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95 Sustainability in Progress: Climate Change in Colorado
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Dec 11, 2022 |
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94 Arts and Culture in the Pikes Peak Region
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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93 Colorado Water Plan 2023
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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92 Green Standards for Stormwater Infrastructure
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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91 Native Plants Support a Healthy Watershed
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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90 Conserving Water at Home
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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89 Our Water System and Meeting Future Demand Our Water System and Meeting Future Demand
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May 15, 2022 |
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88 City of Colorado Springs Sustainability Efforts
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Apr 09, 2022 |
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87 Convert Your CO2 Emissions into Energy Savings and Pollution Reduction for Families in Need
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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86 Pups and Packs: Protecting Wolves in 2022
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Jan 30, 2022 |
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85 Arts Vision 2030
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Jan 03, 2022 |
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84 Car-Free Transportation in the Pikes Peak Region
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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83 Environmental Design Projects: Integrating Social, Financial, and Legal Systems
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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82 Profiting from the Peak
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Oct 23, 2021 |
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81 Creek Week 2021 and the Watershed
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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80 Quality of Life Indicators – Local Government Council Report
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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79 Quality of Life Indicators: Demographics
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Aug 09, 2021 |
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78 New El Paso County Master Plan
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Jul 02, 2021 |
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77 Environmental Education in Colorado
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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76 Backyard Gardens and Local Food
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May 06, 2021 |
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75 Creating a Community Built Park: You Can Do It!
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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74 Going Solar Made Easy – Solar United Neighbors
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Apr 16, 2021 |
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73 Jack's Solar Garden
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Apr 07, 2021 |
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72 Why the Climate Crisis is a Concern for Conservatives
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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71 A New Era for the Bureau of Land Management?
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Mar 14, 2021 |
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70 CO Greenhouse Gas Pollution Reduction Roadmap
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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69 Drake is Closing - Now What?
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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68 Northern Water’s Regional Water Efficiency Program
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Feb 07, 2021 |
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67 Colorado College Students Take Local Action
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Jan 29, 2021 |
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66 Sustainable Holiday
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Nov 30, 2020 |
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65 Does This Flight Make My Footprint Look Big?
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Nov 17, 2020 |
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64 New Energy Plan
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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63 The New Energy Market
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Oct 28, 2020 |
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62 Manitou Springs Forest Garden Initiative Kick-Off
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Oct 13, 2020 |
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61 Creek Week Cleanup 2020
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Sep 23, 2020 |
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60 Voices for Wolves - Proposition 114
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Sep 11, 2020 |
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59 Updating the Regional Sustainability Plan
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Jun 19, 2020 |
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58 Indigenous Land Management for Growing Food Locally
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May 16, 2020 |
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57 The PFAS Story in El Paso County CO
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Mar 21, 2020 |
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56 Colorado Needs Wolves
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Feb 19, 2020 |
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55 Tiny Homes, Big Questions
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Feb 10, 2020 |
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54 Smart Cities for a Sustainable Future
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Jan 24, 2020 |
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53 Smokebrush Farm Feeds Mind and Spirit
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Jan 17, 2020 |
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52 Reducing Waste
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Jan 09, 2020 |
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51 The Dark Side of Renewable Energy
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Dec 17, 2019 |
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50 Leading the Way: Libraries and Sustainability
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Dec 09, 2019 |
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49 Westside Community Garden
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Dec 03, 2019 |
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48 Air Quality in the Pikes Peak Region
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Nov 23, 2019 |
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47 C Springs Energy Future Panel – Peak Environment Podfest
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Nov 13, 2019 |
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46 Making Local Food Flourish Panel – Peak Environment Podfest
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Nov 07, 2019 |
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45 PFAS Water Contamination Panel – Peak Environment Podfest
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Nov 01, 2019 |
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44 The Wonder of Dark Skies
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Oct 24, 2019 |
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43 Planet in Peril – Senate Candidate Forum Part 2
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Oct 16, 2019 |
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42 Planet in Peril – Senate Candidate Forum Part 1
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Oct 15, 2019 |
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41 Podcasting to Save the Planet
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Oct 10, 2019 |
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40 Sustainability in Progress: Arts in C Springs
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Oct 04, 2019 |
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39 Creek Week 2019
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Sep 25, 2019 |
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38 Shave Your Utility Bill – Energy Resource Center
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Sep 19, 2019 |
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37 How Should Colorado Springs Generate Its Electricity?
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Sep 13, 2019 |
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36 Protecting At-risk Public Lands and Values in Central Colorado
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Sep 06, 2019 |
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35 Glimpse of Manitou at Green Drinks
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Aug 25, 2019 |
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34 Voices of Sustainability from Sustain-a-Fest 2019
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Aug 15, 2019 |
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33 Developing Ecological Stewards: Catamount Institute
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Aug 07, 2019 |
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32 Navigating Climate Chaos Resiliently
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Jul 31, 2019 |
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31 Sustain-a-Fest 2019
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Jul 18, 2019 |
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30 State of Pikes Peak Region Sustainability
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Jul 12, 2019 |
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29 Forest Gardening
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Jun 14, 2019 |
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28 Cooperatives and Solidarity Economy for Colorado Springs
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Jun 05, 2019 |
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27 PikeRide's Contributions to Sustainability
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Jun 01, 2019 |
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26 Health and Sustainability
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May 23, 2019 |
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25 Bikesharing in Colorado Springs
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May 16, 2019 |
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24 Who Gives a Scrap?
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May 10, 2019 |
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23 Getting the Word Out on Sustainability
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Apr 23, 2019 |
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22 Fungi, the Forgotten Kingdom
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Apr 12, 2019 |
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21 PFAS Contamination in Our Water
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Apr 05, 2019 |
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20 Moving Colorado Springs Beyond Coal
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Mar 29, 2019 |
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19 Open Mic at Green Drinks Feb 2019
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Mar 23, 2019 |
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18 Environmental Action Summit
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Mar 14, 2019 |
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17 What You Wear Matters
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Mar 10, 2019 |
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16 Sustainability in Progress: Water Quantity
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Mar 01, 2019 |
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15 Life, Laughter, & Love of Green
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Feb 21, 2019 |
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14 Foodshed Forum 2019
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Feb 12, 2019 |
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13 Sustainable Palm Oil
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Feb 06, 2019 |
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12 Brief Intro to Permaculture
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Jan 29, 2019 |
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11 Sustainability in Progress: Local Agriculture
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Jan 23, 2019 |
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10 Sustaining Communities with Local Food – 2019 Grain School
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Jan 02, 2019 |
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9 Rainwater Harvesting
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Dec 12, 2018 |
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8 Our Community of Giving
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Nov 27, 2018 |
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7 Communicate, Collaborate, Celebrate
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Nov 15, 2018 |
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6 For Love of Bluegrass (Or Maybe Not?)
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Nov 01, 2018 |
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5 Be a Civic Superhero
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Oct 23, 2018 |
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#4 Sustainability and Art
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Oct 03, 2018 |
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#3 The Joy of Environmental and Geologic History
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Aug 23, 2018 |
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#2 Sustainable Landscapes
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Jul 26, 2018 |
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#1 Power to the Pedals
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Jun 21, 2018 |