Tag: Sustainability
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What Colorado can teach Washington about energy
Co-authored with Delta County Commissioner Wendell A. Koontz – In Delta County, a solar project that once divided neighbors became a model for how to build trust, protect land, and move clean energy forward. Washington could learn a thing or two.
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Energy security starts at home: Colorado families should invest in tech now
Investing in home energy efficiency upgrades like heat pumps and solar panels protects families from volatile energy prices while strengthening Colorado’s electrical grid—and federal incentives expire at the end of 2025.
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After America’s great energy divorce, what’s next?
The world is moving toward cleaner, cheaper, more distributed energy whether America leads or follows. The question isn’t whether this transition will happen — it’s whether American innovation, American workers, and American companies will drive it.
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Welcome to Powering Forward
Powering Forward is about navigating changing conditions in these uncertain times. It’s human-focused and hopeful, a space where energy, climate, and community come together, told through the lens of Western Colorado and the policies that shape it.
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Bipartisan Fix Our Forests Act is smart policy
We all face increasing threat from the West’s hotter, drier, denser forests. That’s just a fact. Last year we lost 9 million acres to wildland fire. We can’t fix hot, and we can’t fix dry — not in the short term anyway. But we can fix dense.
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An Abundance of Energy Dominance
We are in a miraculous moment where energy can be many, many things, each with its own advantages and disadvantages, its own champions and critics. To me, that sounds like freedom, market choice, competitiveness. Building a big toolkit of energy solutions allows us to find the right tool for the right job. To me, that…
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Can we talk about energy?
What does energy mean to you? That can be a controversial question these days. For most of my life, energy meant the wall switch I flipped to light the room, and the gasoline I pumped into my car. I didn’t think about how those electrons got into my light bulb or how gasoline got into…
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Climate change: ‘We can solve it. We already are’
We’re changing how we power our homes, businesses and transportation. By next year, 50% of the electricity consumed by Tri-State’s co-op customers will come from clean resources. LPEA plans to exceed that by adding in more local renewables. Electric vehicles are mainstream now, as is rooftop solar teamed with battery storage.
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In climate fight, hope sustains
Thank you for publishing the poignant, practical article about keeping hope alive as we face difficult work. It was the perfect Mother’s Day gift for me this year.
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The wrong kind of ingenuity: Bitcoin’s energy problem
You can’t drink Bitcoin and you can’t grow crops from it, but fossil emissions produced through its wasteful algorithm are helping to dry up the Mountain West.
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