Thursday, February 11 - Homemade Green Gifts
for your Valentine! Looking for an environmentally sound option for your sweetie for Valentine's Day?Tracie Mears and Justin Pollack from the Backcountry Herbal Apothecary will show you how to make your own V-Day gift just in time for the 14th. Click here to find out more!
Wednesday, February 24-
The future of food showing
and discussion
Join us for a great movie and a small discussion on the local and sustainable food movement. Our host, the Alpine Earth Center (formerly Alpine Gardens located at 998 Blue River Parkway in Silverthorne) will show the Future of Food. Click here for more info.
Summit county's sustainable
building code
The Efficient
Building Working Group has been working for over two
years to create a workable Sustainable Building Code
for Summit County. It's finally complete and goes
into effect January 1st, 2009.MORE
Take Online Community Survey here
In partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency Region 8, the Summit Water Quality Committee and HC3 are conducting a survey to help determine practices and awareness about the use and disposal of pharmaceuticals and personal care products in our community. You may have received a paper survey in the mail. If you prefer to take the online version, click HERE. Please only take the survey once. For info about the new take-back program, click HERE.
colorado carbon
fund - support local energy
Projects
We're
happy to announce HC3's new partnership with The Colorado
Carbon Fund! You can participate in a three-step process
to help combat climate change. 1). Measure your impact;
2). Reduce your emissions through simple action steps;
and 3). Offset emissions. 20% of your tax-deductible
donation will go to new local - Summit County - projects
that reduce emissions. Sign up today!
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