Planet Profit Report
March 2010
03.01.20102010 Sustainability Champion Awards
By Mike CoteAs sustainability becomes mainstream, it’s a tougher task to honor people, companies and organizations that transcend business as usual.
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and the Colorado Environmental Partnership have partnered with Connected Organizations for a Responsible Economy (CORE), and ColoradoBiz to present the 2010 Sustainability Champion…
January 2010
01.26.2010Ranchers versus environmentalists
By The Colorado Cattlemen’s AssociationWith public lands diminishing due to urban sprawl, beef producers have fewer and fewer options on where to raise their cattle. One option, which has been around for over a century, is to utilize grazing allotment permits from the U.S. Forest Service. These grazing allotments allow producers to stay in…
December 2009
12.08.2009Green Acres
By Susanna SpeierIn June 2008, ColoradoBiz published a story profiling Colorado companies embracing sustainable practices. The Boulder Outlook Hotel was highlighted for its initiatives toward becoming a “zero waste property.”
At the time, Colorado’s capital was gearing up to host its first Democratic National Convention since William Jennings Bryan garnered the nomination…
12.01.2009How to keep old office furniture out of landfills
By Dan RayA DVD player, a piano, a fax machine or a pet cat: searching the “free stuff” section on craigslist can net a wide range of useful or fun items. If you want a desk chair for your new office, look no further.
But what if you want 40 matching desk…
12.01.2009Colorado’s green policy initiatives
By Kris Wiesenfeld and Kevin GeminiucThe market for green technology is simply the largest market ever seen in the history of mankind. Whether motivated by carbon emission reduction or by the desire for energy independence, the worldwide replacement of the energy production and distribution infrastructure, the switching of how we transport ourselves and our goods,…
November 2009
11.30.2009Pepsi Center goes green
By Heather McWilliamsWhen it comes to business, Jeff Scott believes in a bottom-line hat trick rather than a slap shot.
“My passion is to reduce the impact on the planet, make money and feel good because we’re doing the right thing. I definitely subscribe to the triple bottom line,“ said Scott,…
Priming the new energy pump
By Todd Neff
Having a hands-on job in the Colorado energy business used to mean roughnecking on a rig or laying natural-gas pipe. Jonah Coles’ energy job involves laying silicon sheets on roofs.
Coles, 30, leads a solar panel-installation crew for Boulder-based Independent Power Systems, a…
11.03.2009State of the State: Entrepreneurs
Pictures flash across the screen: the blue whale, the ocelot, the bald eagle. “Extinct is Forever,“ posted by Plant It Film Productions, is just one of more than 2,700 videos on EarthProtect.com.
Colorado-based Earth Protect launched its website worldwide in April, focusing on providing an entertaining place where people can…
October 2009
10.01.2009Tapped out: The future of water on the Front Range
By Allen BestI. STORM ON THE HORIZON
It’s been said that every glass of water in Colorado comes from the Western Slope. Strictly speaking, that’s wrong. A few places - Burlington, Trinidad and Castle Rock come to mind - get no water from west…
June 2009
06.19.2009Colorado Sustainable Design Awards celebrate the state’s best architecture
ColoradoBiz wants to celebrate building design by recognizing projects statewide that exemplify social, environmental and economic sustainability.
The magazine is now accepting applications for the Colorado Sustainable Design Awards, a program launched in partnership with the American Institute for Architects (AIA Colorado), the Urban Land Institute In an earlier installment of “Entirely Homegrown,” I wrote about the disproportionate hopes I’m pinning on the potato as I try to live off only what I can produce in my backyard for one month, August. Who can blame me? Potatoes grow fast in just about any climate, they do… Most people recognize Goodwill Industries of Denver by the nonprofit’s 18 retail stores selling secondhand goods, but that arm of the organization only serves the greater mission of helping members of the community reach their full potential. Toward that end, Goodwill has started an Energy Workforce Program at East and… In Vail, the specter of dead and dying lodgepole pine trees presents both adversity and opportunity. Mountain bark beetles, always present in forests but in epidemic proportions since 1996, have turned adjacent slopes the color of cheaply dyed hair, the needles of dying trees a dull red verging on orange.Entirely Homegrown: Potatoes on the rise
By Mike Taylor
Sustainability spotlight: Goodwill Industries of Denver
By Kyle Ringo
Too much beetle wood ain’t enough
By Allen Best
May 2009
05.31.2009Colorado’s share of the stimulus
By Carolyn McIntoshPresident Obama signed the stimulus bill in February at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, returning to the state where he accepted the Democratic nomination for president.
That Obama has borrowed the “New Energy Economy” phrase first championed by Gov. Bill Ritter and that Colorado supported Obama in the…
