"Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am– a reluctant enthusiast…a part time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it is still… Read more »
"Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world." Immanuel Kant
"We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot-stove lid again, and that is well; but also she will never sit down… Read more »
The Cottonwood Institute recently showed Who Killed the Electric Car? at our Change the World Movie Night at the Fluid Coffee Bar in Denver. I really enjoyed how this film presented and analyzed the various suspects that contributed to the life and death of GM’s Electric Vehicles (EV). Suspects included the California Air Resources Board,… Read more »
"There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction." -John F. Kennedy
"Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend." -Albert Camus
When you head to the hills for a weekend backpacking excursion, you are not typically thinking about what you would do if you were in the middle of nowhere and your pack accidentally sailed off a cliff. This happened to one poor student that took a survival course with an organization I used to work… Read more »
"When a man throws and empty cigarette package from an automobile, he is liable for a fine of 50$. When a man throws a billboard across a view, he is richly rewarded." -Pat Brown, Quoted in David Ogilvy, Ogilvy on Advertising, 1985
This quarter’s CAP class’ action project focused on educating people about the practice of being “carbon neutral” and supporting renewable energy sources. In order to do this we studied conventional energy sources, alternatives to these, and what it means to be carbon neutral. In order to fully understand carbon neutrality you have to know how… Read more »
Myrtle Spurge is a funky little plant that has stealthily crept its way into the many rock gardens and landscapes of Park Hill. While this plant is aesthetically pleasing, requires little water, and has a beautiful yellow glow when it flowers in the spring, this plant is a menace to our neighborhood! So what’s the… Read more »
