Quarterly Newsletter
June. 7, 2012
Volume 3 Issue 2
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Retree Steamboat and Sustainability Expo This Saturday, June 9
ReTree Steamboat is a one-day planting event to replace trees killed by beetle kill and help increase the diversity of the forest. This Saturday, Yampa Valley Sustainability Council will be hosting its 3rd Annual ReTree Steamboat. We are planting less trees this year to focus on the survival and maintenance of the young saplings.
Site leaders are needed! Contact Sarah Jones if you would like to help manage a planting site.
Volunteers REGISTER HERE
Sustainability vendors REGISTER HERE
All Volunteers receive a ReTree t-shirt this year!
Order them ahead through the registration above,
supplies are limited!
Agenda: Registration is from 8-9am, planting is from 9am-12pm.
A Smokehousesponsored BBQ is from 12-1pm, and the Sustainability Expo with exhibitors, games, kids booth, live music, and beer tent will be from 12-3pm on the Historic Courthouse lawn.
In addition to replanting and diversifying our local open spaces, we are expanding the popular ReTree Expo. This year we are partnering with Main Street Steamboat to combine the Expo with the Saturday Farmers Market. Not only will there be more vendors and more attendees, but the Expo will be right downtown for greater visibility.
Volunteers are needed to help with this event.
Set-up - 7 to 8am: Setting up tents, registration, etc. We could use as many volunteers as possible.
Registration: 8 - 9am: Signing people in, handing out packets, and directing them to where they need to go - 5 volunteers would be great
Vendor set up: 9:30-11am: Help direct vendors, get them in and out of the barricade, etc. again 5 volunteers would be great
Kids' Activity Tents 11 - 3pm: We could use 2 or 3 volunteers to help with these. You wouldn't have to stay at the tents the whole time but just check in on them to make sure there are enough supplies, etc.
Collecting and selling BBQ tickets: 1 volunteer to collect BBQ and Beer tickets or sell them if someone wants to buy.
Kegs: We will have two kegs and will need 2 certified servers from 11:30am (to set up) to 3pm.
Food help: We will need at least 3 volunteers from 11:30 to 3 helping prep and serve at the BBQ.
Zero Waste tent: We will have 1 ZW tent at the event and will need 2 people to help direct people and their trash.
If you are interested in volunteering please email carol@yvsc.org
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How much do you really know about fracking?
Take the quiz and find out.
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Is your car wasting space?
from Colorado Public Radio
High gas prices are a fact of life. They often get people thinking about fuel efficiency. Maybe youre a little lighter on the pedal when you know its costing you more. Yet the biggest waste in your commute may be something else entirely... empty seats in your car. We look at how social media are helping people fill those seats. Think of it as carpooling in the digital age or what transportation expert Alan Pisarski calls a renaissance in hitchhiking. He talks with CPR's Ryan Warner. First, though, reporter Andy Mills introduces us to a young man who hops on the Net before hopping into a car.
click here, then click on "listen" to hear this report.
Among the popular websites that offer ride sharing are Craig's list, Ridebuzz, erideshare and Ridester(shown below.)
 And you can also get ridesharing apps for your iPhone. Avegos free iPhone app enables private cars to become part of the public transport network by providing a marketplace for drivers to offer their unused seats to other people in real time.
A driver running the iPhone app is matched in real time with anyone searching for a ride along the same route. The system combines this GPS-enabled real-time ride-matching with fully automated payment transaction management, real-time passenger information, safety features, and commute reporting to enable more flexible and verifiable carpooling.
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LIVEWELL SURVEY
Livewell Northwest Colorado is conducting a brief (approx. 10 min.) survey of Routt County residents about food. Your participation is much appreciated!
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June
S 9th Retree Steamboat; 8am - 2pm, Court House Lawn and 5th Street
522 Lincoln Avenue, SS..
sponsored by YVSC
S 9th Sustainability Expo 2012, 9am - 1pm, Court House Lawn and 5th Street
522 Lincoln Avenue, SS.
sponsored by YVSC and Mainstreet Steamboat
S 9th Farmer's Market 9am - 2 pm, 6th Street at Lincoln Ave, next to the Routt County Courthouse in downtown Steamboat Springs.
Email us for more information: farmersmarket@mainstreetsteamboat.com or call 970-846-1800.S 10th 12:30pm Annual Pioneer Picnic, Steamboat Springs Community Center
Beef and drinks will be provided. Tradition calls for every family to bring a covered dish to share, their own dinnerware and a cup or glass.
Parents and grandparents are encouraged to bring children or grandchildren to help celebrate the historic occasion.
sponsored by Historic Routt County and the Routt County Council on Aging.
for more info contact HRC: 970-875-1305;hrc@historicrouttcounty.org
S 16th Farmer's Market 9am - 2 pm, 6th Street at Lincoln Ave, next to the Routt County Courthouse in downtown Steamboat Springs.
Email us for more information: farmersmarket@mainstreetsteamboat.com or call 970-846-1800.
S 21st High Altitude Mountain Wildflower Hike, 8am - 4pm
Location: TBD Cost: $35/member, $40/nonmember Time:
Sponsored by Yampatika.
S 23rd Farmer's Market 9am - 2 pm, 6th Street at Lincoln Ave, next to the Routt County Courthouse in downtown Steamboat Springs.
Email us for more information: farmersmarket@mainstreetsteamboat.com or call 970-846-1800.
T 26th Talking Green/Green Drinks at Mahogany Ridge from 45:15.
Sponsored by YVSC
T 26th 5pm Routt County Board of Commissioners Public Hearing
Routt County Courthouse RCBCC Board room, 522 Lincoln Avenue, SS.
This public hearing is for consideration for approval of exploration, drilling, and production by Quicksilver Resources on the Camilletti Property up gradient from Milner. Anyone interested in protecting water and air quality should attend to voice concerns.
July
W 11th 11:30am-1pm monthly YVSC mtg
Citizens' Meeting Room, Centennial Hall, 10th St, S.S.
The public is welcome.
S 14th 9am3pm Sierra Club- Rocky Mountain Chapter quarterly board meeting
Library Hall, SS
contact Rich Levy if you would like to attend all or any part of the meeting.
more info
S 14th 6pm Great Colorado Bear Stories Presentation with Author Laura Pritchet
Bud Werner Memorial Library
6pm: Bear Aware Program: Join a Yampatika Naturalist and a Colorado Parks & Wildlife representative to learn about the natural history of bears. This family friendly opportunity will feature tracks, skulls, pelts and a life sized bear mount. Learn how to co-exist with these gentle giants and gain a greater appreciation of their life cycle, habitat requirements and seasonal activities.
7pm: Author, Laura Pritchet, Presentation and Slideshow: Great Colorado Bear Stories is an incredible look at Colorados bears, including the grizzlies that once roamed across the state, and the black bears that still do. Carefully researched and skillfully written, these stories involve death and near-death, playfulness and humor.
No registration is required for either event.
Sponsored by Yampatika.
M 16th Medicinal Herb Walk at Spring Creek 9am to noon
Cost: $20/member, $25/nonmember
Sponsored by Yampatika.
T 24th 6:30 Talking Green; Garden Tour
sponsored by YVSC
August
T 28th 6pm Talking Green: Potluck, film Growthbusters, and presentation by Dave Gardner
Library Hall, SS
free event sponsored by Transition Steamboat and YVSC
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In the News...
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Fold My Ride: The Bike That Could Change Transit
Folding bikes are the black sheep of the bike community, neither respected by hard-core cyclists nor frequently used by the average citizen. But a new global company called Tern Bikes is out to change that perceptionand, in the process, change transit.
We just said, look, a folding bike doesnt have to look and ride like a contraption, says Steve Boyd, the companys general manager in North America. Tern Bikes launched publicly last year after several employees of Dahon bicycles, including the founders son, departed to form a new company to create high-quality folding bikes.
The most reliable market for folding bikes is people with acute needstheyve got an RV or a boat and want to keep a bike on it, they live in small walk-up apartments or face other space constraints. These people will find Tern bikes on their own. Boyd and his colleagues, though, want to expand the market.
Were broadening it by calling it urban transportation, Boyd says. More and more people are moving into these re-urbanization movements in places like downtown L.A. where no one lived five years ago.
Terns pitch is the first-mile, last-mile argument: Bikes can effectively extend the useful range of public transit by providing an easy way to get to and from stops. Folding bikes are even more effective in this role because of their compact size; they also encourage bike commuting in the event of inclement weather, since they can be easily carried not just on public transit, but in any car.
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24 Policies to End the Earth Emergency
By Stephen Leahy
Ecologically ignorant policies are largely responsible for the interlinked crises that are unraveling the planet's life support system.
The unintended consequences of such policies are climate change, desertification, biodiversity decline, ocean pollution and the destruction of forests, according to the policy advocacy organisation World Future Council.
The solution is to eliminate bad policies and implement policies that ensure a healthy planet for future generations. On world environment Day, Jun. 5, the World Future Council will present an emergency policy agenda consisting of 24 tipping-point policies that need to be implemented globally to preserve a habitable planet.
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