Environment and Conservation

Right now I’m working with a group called the eco-leaders, and the point of the organization is to get dorms as environmentally friendly as possible. We are working on an Eco Star challenge where we compare last year's recycling, electricity and water usage to see who can use the least amount of resources. We put on programs with the RA’s and do dorm storming to educate students about recycling and saving resources. People need to be educated about what is recyclable and not take excessively long showers.

I have been hunting at the same place for 40 years. At 10,000 feet, it is dry and there is no snow. Global warming doesn't exist? I feel that the government should develop a scientific, energy based economy. We are inventors. We need to find programs to develop alternative energy fuels and not rely on fossil fuels. We recycle at home but we're just one family. If we develop technologies, other countries will follow. We are starting. California and Connecticut have mandatory recycling. We only have to worry about ourselves. One person at a time, like the space program.

I decided I wanted to see what the Roan Plateau looked like. We spent 3 days there. We saw elk herds, hiked down to a waterfall. It was beautiful. We did see some oil towers but they were probably on private land. Now we have CAA Company promising billions of dollars, but there are ways to extract oil that doesn't destroy the land and water. I know Mark has supported that.

I am a fourth generation Coloradan who hails from Ault, Colorado. I grew up in a farming family. We lived in Eastern Colorado. I am concerned about water rights and how those rights affect farming families living in eastern Colorado. Trout Unlimited and a non profit environmental group took some farming families to court over a small section of a river where endangered trout were thought to inhabit. The environmentalists did not want the river to be dammed while the agricultural lobby representing the farming families wanted to dam the river to keep infrastructure intact down stream and maintain a flow of water to the farms. I recognize that the environmentalists and farmers do not always share the same priorities and I urge Mark Udall to remember that, if elected, he will represent all of Colorado and not just "the Boulder Democrats." In Eastern Colorado, wells are running dry and farming families won't be able to survive and cultivate their farms without the water that they so desperately need. On the Front Range there is no incentive to save water. New subdivisions pop up and burden the water supply. I hope that Mark will be sensitive and supportive of agricultural issues and farming families and come up with innovative ways to motivate people to save water.

I work for a major trash company. We’re not the largest, but our company does recycling services throughout the Denver Metro Area. I work with customers everyday, and over the last year I have experienced more interest in people wanting to recycle and asking what can we do. We have responded to that by adding recycling routes throughout the Denver Metro Area. I talk to people every day. I try to encourage people to recycle. Somehow if we can educate the population at large about how much energy and money they save by recycling they might do it more; for example, one aluminum can, manufactured from a recycled state as opposed to a raw state, saves 3 hours, on just one aluminum can. Read More >