HOLA Lakeway has been serving the diverse immigrant community of Hamblen, Jefferson and Grainger Counties since 2014. Since 2018, the organization has served over 4,000 people, ensuring that they are given the skills and tools that they need to be empowered. HOLA Lakeway believes in facilitating the integration of immigrant read more →
Vertical Harvest of Jackson Hole responds to two significant needs in the community: 1. Jackson has a 4 month growing season and imports the majority of its produce from outside Wyoming. 2. There is a 78% unemployment rate for people with different abilities in Wyoming. This population deserves the opportunity read more →
Filmmaker, Photographer, Entrepreneur, Problem-solver. Filmmaker Jeff Orlowski served as director, producer, and cinematographer on the Sundance Award-Winning film, Chasing Ice. Orlowski’s feature length documentary was invited to screen at the White House, the United Nations and the United States Congress and has captured over 40 awards from film festivals around the read more →
Dr. Kenneth Lacovara has unearthed some of the largest dinosaurs ever to walk our planet, including the super-massive Dreadnoughtus, which at 65 tons weighs more than seven T. rex. In his quest to understand these titanic creatures that strain the human imagination, Lacovara blends exploration in remote locations across the read more →
500 Women Scientists is a grassroots organization started by four women who met in graduate school at CU Boulder and who maintained friendships and collaborations after jobs and life took them away from Boulder. Immediately following the November 2016 election, they published an open letter re-affirming their commitment to speak read more →
Jonathan F.P. Rose’s business, public policy and not-for-profit work all focus on creating more environmentally, socially and economically resilient cities. In 1989, Mr. Rose founded Jonathan Rose Companies LLC, a multi-disciplinary real estate development, planning, and investment firm, which creates real estate and planning models to address the challenges read more →
Forest Fund‘s story began in a Harvard dorm room in October of 2014. For Sophia Watkins and her roommates, this marked the beginning of seven months of conversations with only one reliable theme: cows and conservation. Sophia had been studying soy and cattle production in the Brazilian Amazon for two read more →
In 1968, Tom and Kate Chappell left Philadelphia, where Tom worked for an insurance company, and moved to rural Kennebunk, Maine. As part of their goal to simplify their lives, they sought out natural, unprocessed foods and, unadulterated products. Unable to find natural personal care options for themselves and their read more →
In Megafire, Michael Kodas travels to the most dangerous and remote wildernesses and to the backyards of people faced with these environmental disasters, to look at the heart of this phenomenon and witness firsthand the heroic efforts of the firefighters and scientists racing against time to tame these deadly flames. read more →
Patty Limerick is the Faculty Director and Chair of the Board of the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado, where she is also a Professor of History. Limerick has dedicated her career to bridging the gap between academics and the general public and to demonstrating the read more →
Jen Kay is an assistant professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and a Fellow of CIRES at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She remains a visiting scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, where she worked prior to joining CU Boulder. Dr. Kay researches polar read more →
“Helen Thorpe has taken policy and turned it into literature.” –Malcolm Gladwell Helen Thorpe was born in London to Irish parents. She is an award-winning journalist who lives in Denver, Colorado. Her journalism has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Texas Monthly, and 5280. Her newest book, The Newcomers: read more →
MISSION National Young Farmers Coalition represents, mobilizes, and engages young farmers to ensure their success. VISION They envision a country where young people who are willing to work, get trained and take a little risk can support themselves and their families in farming. GUIDING PRINCIPLES The National Young Farmers read more →
Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, (his first name pronounced ‘Shoe-Tez-Caht’) is a 16 year old indigenous climate activist, hip-hop artist, and a powerful voice on the front lines of a global youth-led environmental movement. At the early age of six, Xiuhtezcatl began speaking around the world from the Rio+20 United Nations Summit in read more →
Bren Smith, owner of Thimble Island Ocean Farm and GreenWave Executive Director, pioneered the development of restorative 3D ocean farming. A lifelong commercial fisherman, his work has been profiled by CNN, The New Yorker, NPR, Bon Appetit, National Geographic Television’s Future of Food series, and the Wall Street Journal. His writing has appeared in the read more →
Several years ago Sarah Jackson went on a trip to the US/Mexico border with a humanitarian aid organization working on immigration issues. She spoke with people who had been deported, learned about people’s reasons for migrating and heard the dangers they face in doing so. She saw first-hand families being read more →
Laura Faye Tenenbaum is an Innovator in Science Communication and a member of the Earth Science Communications Team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where she creates content for NASA’s Global Climate Change website and the “Earth Right Now” blog. She develops original videos and interactive new media products to engage read more →
An energy revolution is under way in the U.S. and beyond, and Gov. Bill Ritter wants everyone to know about it. Bill Ritter, the 41st governor of Colorado who served from 2007-2011, has authored a book that discusses the forces behind the energy revolution, new ways to think about energy, read more →
The first major advancement in firearm safety technology in decades: a revolutionary smart gun with a built in fingerprint sensor that knows who is firing it. Parents don’t need to fear their children finding their gun when they are out of the house. Police officers don’t need to fear being read more →
Dr. Steven C. Amstrup is chief scientist for Polar Bears International. He also is an adjunct professor at the University of Wyoming in Laramie. Before joining PBI, Amstrup was a research wildlife biologist with the United States Geological Survey at the Alaska Science Center, Anchorage AK., where he led polar read more →
