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Sustaining our community for future generations
Happy new year!
Thank you for support in a great push to the end of 2014 - with your help we reached our goal and raised over $20,000 with our year-end push! Happy New Year! Thank you to everyone who donated to YVSC as part of our year-end fundraising campaign. With the help of more than 120 donors, we reached our goal of $20,000! Thank you! With the support of so many people, we have lots of great projects planned!
What would a New Year be without New Year's Resolutions?
Here are a few of our 2015 resolutions to make life in the Yampa Valley more sustainable:
Knowing that sustainability is important to so many in our community is inspiring, and we look forward to reporting on our resolution progress!
Happy and Healthy 2015!
Sarah Jones, Executive Director
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February 2 - Passive House Talking Green
5:30pm - 7:00pm, Creekside Cafe
with Erik Lobeck and Todd Collins
The term passive house (Passivhaus in German) refers to a rigorous, voluntary standard for energy efficiency in a building, reducing its ecological footprint. It results in ultra-low energy buildings that require little energy for space heating or cooling
Learn more about our speakers here: http://www.yvsc.org/calendar/upcoming-events/talking-green-2/
This event will be followed up with a SIGA workshop in March
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Bud Werner Memorial Library Hall
Thursday January 29th, 6:30pm
How to read those seductive seed catalogs for what will work in the High Country!
Learn more at
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Food Chains Documentary
Wednesday, February 11th
6:30pm Bud Werner Memorial Library Hall
Food Chains reveals the human cost in our food supply and the complicity of large buyers of produce like fast food and supermarkets. Fast food is big, but supermarkets are bigger - earning $4 trillion globally. They have tremendous power over the agricultural system. Over the past three decades they have drained revenue from their supply chain leaving farmworkers in poverty and forced to work under subhuman conditions. Yet many take no responsibility for this.
Learn more at
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Recycle your Holiday Trees and Lights
For the entire month of January the City of Steamboat will collect your real everygreen trees in the Ice Arena parking lot at 285 Howelsen Parkway. PLEASE take everything off your tree prior to drop-off (no tinsel, lights, etc), it will be mulched and used throughout the city in the spring. NO WREATHS (contain wire).
ALSO, Ace Hardware has a crate next to the check-out registers for recycling broken or unwanted Holiday Lights.
REDUCE REUSE RECYCLE!
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Did you make a New Year's resolution to be kinder to the planet in 2015?
You can get started on that resolution right now and help make our entire community more sustainable by donating to YVSC. Preserve what you love about the Yampa Valley! Make a one-time gift online today
OR
Join Friends of YVSC and sign up for a recurring gift. Monthly giving provides consistent, dependable revenue (like your paycheck) for programs like Energy, Recycling, ReTree, Zero Waste, Sustainable Schools and more. Plus, it's easy, convenient and secure for you.
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What have we been writing about?
Want to get your topic or event featured in the YVSC Blog?
Email 300 words or a link to Andy
Our blog posts directly to Facebook and Twitter for triple the impact!
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January 29
Garden Porn
Bud Werner Library Hall
6:30pm
February 2
Passive House Talking Green and Workshop
with Todd Collins
5:30pm Creekside Cafe
February 4
YVSC Community Meeting
11:30am
Centennial Hall Room 113 - 114
February 5
YVR Monthly Committee Meeting
12pm
Centennial Hall Room 113 - 114
Feburary 11
Food Chains Film Screening
6:30pm
Library Hall
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YVSC welcomes new board member!
We are proud to welcome Sherry Holland to our Board of Directors!
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Help us mold Talking Green in 2015!
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Get your Radon Checked!
January is Radon Month and CSU extension office is providing discounted kits!
Stop by their office to pick one up and get your house tested!
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Like what we're doing?
Share our newsletter with your friends and help expand the reach of YVSC!
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YVSC
Garrett Smith - Pres.
Sherry Holland
Amber Maisel
Carolina Manriques
Jeff Troeger
Want to join this awesome team?
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Since 2005, Brightside Solar has been a well respected integrator of residential and commercial solar electric systems in the high country of Northwest Colorado. We design, install, and service both grid-tie and off-grid photovoltaic (PV) systems
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